1> I don’t find the movie much faithful to the original play. It is so because at the very beginning of the play we get to know that Hamlet is a University student and is in his twenties but in the play he is showed as a man of early thirties rather than being shown as young. Shakespeare wrote the play in Renaissance time but in the movie Victorian age is much reflected. The costumes of the characters are much different than the originality. But on the positive side we can also say Ophelia is much highlighted and Claudius played his role well as depicted in the play. The theme of the original play is also well maintained in the movie by the director Kenneth Branagh.
2> My perception about the main protagonist of the play that is Hamlet has changed. I thought why Hamlet was wasting his time in faking his madness and portraying his whole life story through a play in his kingdom, why is he not punishing his mother (Gertrude) and uncle (Claudius) for their heinous act when he was well aware of the truth. When I saw the same part of the play in the movie I got to know that he was trying to see that the story which he knew behind his father’s death was true or not and did it effect Claudius or not. And when he came to know that the story was true he started faking his madness for killing Claudius otherwise he couldn’t kill him. At last when he succeeded in killing Claudius, it just showed the love and loyalty of a son to his father and also loyalty of a true Prince or a warrior for his kingdom.
3> In the movie I can feel aesthetic delight, it is so when Ophelia becomes mad just after her father’s death that too in the love of Hamlet and not in the grief of her dead father. And I can also find aesthetic delight when Hamlet mocks his uncle and his uncle is silent.
4> I feel catharsis in the play, it is so when Hamlet after his return from Wittenberg to Denmark hears the sudden death of his father and the over hasty marriage of his mother with his uncle he gets shattered. When he first saw his father’s ghost and heard the brutal story of his death and how sorrowfully he asks Hamlet to take revenge for his death and when the ghost disappears Hamlet breaks down, here also I can find catharsis.
5> At first I thought what is the need of watching a movie related to a play. But when I witnessed movie like Doctor Faustus and Hamlet, I got to know the merits of watching a movie related to a play. Now-a-days when we watch Hollywood or Bollywood movies most of the scenes and dialogues of the movies gets imbibed in our mind for a quite longer period; it is same in the case of academic movies when we watch this movies we can easily relate the dialogues with the scenes and it becomes easier for us to remember and sometimes the background music of the movie helps us to remember the scenes of the movie because we are also mostly accustomed with the songs or music of a movie. Watching movie related to our academics is very helpful.
6> The scene or moment which I would like to cherish lifetime is the scene of Claudius’s death, this scene depicts the loyalty of a son for his father; here Hamlet at last kills Claudius the murderer of King Hamlet his father. This scene also depicts that when we think of evil for others sooner or later we will also undergo the result of our own evil mind like the condition of Claudius.
7> If I would have been the director of the movie I would have chosen a character for Hamlet in early twenties rather than a matured man as shown in the movie. I would have shown Gertrude to think what was she up to and against whom she was conspirating along with Claudius. And I would have shown Hamlet being concerned for Ophelia before her death.
8> The broken statue at the end signifies that punishing the evil is good but to some extent taking revenge is not so good because revenge is such a thing which can bring a whole empire to an abrupt end as in the case of the Denmark kingdom. Where no one of the royal family survives, which is the most sorrowful part of the play. It also signifies the change of time where nothing is stagnant.
9> While studying the play through movie I found philosophical approach more applicable, it is so because as Hamlet is a student of Philosophy he is very intellectual in his thoughts; he thinks why did his uncle kill his father and how could his mother marry his uncle by betraying his father and he keeps on thinking how to kill Claudius. He found Claudius praying and Claudius was armless, as it was a ‘golden opportunity’ for Hamlet he didn’t kill Claudius. Hamlet thought that if he will kill Claudius while praying then his soul would go to Heaven which Hamlet didn’t want at all, so he left that opportunity and Claudius was saved. In place of Hamlet if there would have been Claudius he would have never stopped as Hamlet did.
10> In pre-viewing the movie the cultural approach seems to be more appealing to me, it is so because in the play Renaissance age is well reflected rather than the movie. And up to some extent feminist approach is also applicable for the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia as they are being suppressed by the men folk most of the times in the play.
2> My perception about the main protagonist of the play that is Hamlet has changed. I thought why Hamlet was wasting his time in faking his madness and portraying his whole life story through a play in his kingdom, why is he not punishing his mother (Gertrude) and uncle (Claudius) for their heinous act when he was well aware of the truth. When I saw the same part of the play in the movie I got to know that he was trying to see that the story which he knew behind his father’s death was true or not and did it effect Claudius or not. And when he came to know that the story was true he started faking his madness for killing Claudius otherwise he couldn’t kill him. At last when he succeeded in killing Claudius, it just showed the love and loyalty of a son to his father and also loyalty of a true Prince or a warrior for his kingdom.
3> In the movie I can feel aesthetic delight, it is so when Ophelia becomes mad just after her father’s death that too in the love of Hamlet and not in the grief of her dead father. And I can also find aesthetic delight when Hamlet mocks his uncle and his uncle is silent.
4> I feel catharsis in the play, it is so when Hamlet after his return from Wittenberg to Denmark hears the sudden death of his father and the over hasty marriage of his mother with his uncle he gets shattered. When he first saw his father’s ghost and heard the brutal story of his death and how sorrowfully he asks Hamlet to take revenge for his death and when the ghost disappears Hamlet breaks down, here also I can find catharsis.
5> At first I thought what is the need of watching a movie related to a play. But when I witnessed movie like Doctor Faustus and Hamlet, I got to know the merits of watching a movie related to a play. Now-a-days when we watch Hollywood or Bollywood movies most of the scenes and dialogues of the movies gets imbibed in our mind for a quite longer period; it is same in the case of academic movies when we watch this movies we can easily relate the dialogues with the scenes and it becomes easier for us to remember and sometimes the background music of the movie helps us to remember the scenes of the movie because we are also mostly accustomed with the songs or music of a movie. Watching movie related to our academics is very helpful.
6> The scene or moment which I would like to cherish lifetime is the scene of Claudius’s death, this scene depicts the loyalty of a son for his father; here Hamlet at last kills Claudius the murderer of King Hamlet his father. This scene also depicts that when we think of evil for others sooner or later we will also undergo the result of our own evil mind like the condition of Claudius.
7> If I would have been the director of the movie I would have chosen a character for Hamlet in early twenties rather than a matured man as shown in the movie. I would have shown Gertrude to think what was she up to and against whom she was conspirating along with Claudius. And I would have shown Hamlet being concerned for Ophelia before her death.
8> The broken statue at the end signifies that punishing the evil is good but to some extent taking revenge is not so good because revenge is such a thing which can bring a whole empire to an abrupt end as in the case of the Denmark kingdom. Where no one of the royal family survives, which is the most sorrowful part of the play. It also signifies the change of time where nothing is stagnant.
9> While studying the play through movie I found philosophical approach more applicable, it is so because as Hamlet is a student of Philosophy he is very intellectual in his thoughts; he thinks why did his uncle kill his father and how could his mother marry his uncle by betraying his father and he keeps on thinking how to kill Claudius. He found Claudius praying and Claudius was armless, as it was a ‘golden opportunity’ for Hamlet he didn’t kill Claudius. Hamlet thought that if he will kill Claudius while praying then his soul would go to Heaven which Hamlet didn’t want at all, so he left that opportunity and Claudius was saved. In place of Hamlet if there would have been Claudius he would have never stopped as Hamlet did.
10> In pre-viewing the movie the cultural approach seems to be more appealing to me, it is so because in the play Renaissance age is well reflected rather than the movie. And up to some extent feminist approach is also applicable for the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia as they are being suppressed by the men folk most of the times in the play.
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