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Non Chalent
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  1. To Be Or Not To Be
    1. Kenneth Branagh 1996
      1. Arras is replaced with one-way mirror, Claudius and Polonius behind
        1. Points knife at mirror on 'bare bodkin', Polonius reacts, foreshadows what will cause his death
          1. Surveillance state, distrust
        2. Lyndsey Turner 2015
          1. Benny C is in a toy soldier's uniform
            1. 'Ay, there's the rub'- shakes finger as if in debate, realisation
              1. Becomes sterner, at 'pause' returns to dismay (thinking- emotion)
                1. Mocks noose with whistle round his neck (TOYing with suicide, it's just a game, PLAYTIME???)
          2. Doran 2009
            1. Hidden almost completely in shadow, speaks slowly and quietly
              1. Eyes shut as he speaks
                1. Opens eyes on 'perchance to dream', looks directly at camera
                  1. stare then directed at middle-distance
                    1. 4th wall broken again, 'For who would bear the whips and scorns of time' (the question is posed to the audience, 'who' is humanity)
                      1. 'but for the dread of something after death', eyes go down, to hell?
                        1. 'the undiscover'd country'- back to camera
                          1. 'puzzles the will'- looks away, as he looks away from will or action in his hesitance
                            1. 'conscience does make cowards of us all'- maintains stare at camera ('who' becomes 'all')
              2. Grigori 1964
                1. Hamlet is beside sea- sea used to represent his torment. Emphasised by the soliloquy being completely internal
                2. Zefirelli 1990
                  1. My name-a is-a Mel-a Gibson and I am-a Hamlet, yeah?
                    1. the soliloquy is set in an underground tomb- where Old Hamlet is buried
                      1. Directs soliloquy to his father's corpse (even though he is aware of the Ghost), suggests doubtful distinction between life and death and death and the afterlife
                        1. Ends every line in a questioning tone, questions answered by more questions
                          1. 'undiscover'd country', shot of skeletons
                            1. Looks up, facing hole in ceiling, light fills his face as he says 'pale cast of thought'. His face is pale in the light, but it also hints thought as being more Godly, towards the direction of heaven
                  2. Olivier 1948
                    1. Hamlet on top of cliff, dramatic Classical music accompanies the sea. Face fragmented with ocean (to achieve same effect as Grigori, showing internal conflict)
                      1. 'We know not of'- looks at sea, sea- doubt
                      2. On the line 'To die', the soliloquy becomes internalised then is again spoken with 'perchance to dream'
                        1. Walks off into mist
                      3. G-g-ghost!!!
                        1. Richard Eyre 1980
                          1. Jonathan Pryce as Hamlet
                            1. Hamlet is possessed by the spirit of his father
                              1. "this was the only means I could think of at the time of making the manifestation of his father's spirit effective for a contemporary audience highly sceptical about the existence of the spirit world"
                                1. "the grief is very powerfully felt"
                                  1. Pryce puts on voice for the Ghost as it possesses Hamlet, every time the 'ghost' speaks, his eyes are closed and his arms grapple (Hamlet is taken over)
                          2. Grigori 1964
                            1. Act 1 Scene 5
                              1. Encounter against background of violent sea at night
                                1. Hamlet is approached by the very slow-moving ghost clad in armour
                                  1. the voice is not coming from the ghost, playing from ominous surround-sound (could be in Hamlet's mind, could be because of his God-like presence)
                                    1. Ghost throughout speaks in monotone- detachment makes him more frightening
                                    2. Face concealed by armour until 'not let they soul contrive against thy mother'
                                      1. Light reveals his eyes first, looks like Nos Feratu (as the Christian proverb goes, eyes are the mirrors of the soul)
                                        1. Face hidden again at 'fare thee well at once', once Hamlet has been given his purpose
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