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Tone

Common:

- volume wise: soft

Contrast:

- Gibson: sad/depressed

- Branagh: hint of anger/frustration

#knife->other symbol

Background Contrast

• Gibson: Dark background therefore only Hamlet is the focus

• Branagh: Huge empty room with mirror to make it seem even bigger

- Background tries to emphasize

and isolate the sole importance on the soliloquy

- Emphasis only on Hamlet

- Background tries to emphasize and isolate

the sole importance of the scene to Hamlet's

monologue

- done in different ways

Common Elements

To be or not to be soliloquy

poop

An analysis of the Kenneth Branagh and Mel Gibson versions of Hamlet

Use of Music

- Branagh: soft “spooky” music

• Dissonant: reflects dissonance of hamlet’s character

• Complement to hamlet’s monologue

- Gibson: silence and echo

• Emphasis on hamlet’s monologue

Gibson version

Branagh version

Branagh

• Branagh: mirror – hamlet is looking into himself showing an exterior monologue to his interior struggle

• Gibson: coffin – image of death. Allusion to hamlet’s struggle with life

Thank you

Use of symbol

Hamlet - Branagh vs. Gibson

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