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Hamlet - To be or not to be (Branagh, Gibson)
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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
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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