Branagh's Hamlet has Polonius cautiously close some impressive wrought-iron gates behind his son's exit so that he can establish privacy before broaching Ophelia's relationship with Hamlet. Public: In Act 1, Scene 3, Ophelia tells her father about Hamlet's attempts to woo her. Branagh takes the Shakespearean motif of antithesis and renders it with clarity on the big screen through his introduction of Hamlet in Act 1, Scene 2, as a dour black-clad brooder juxtaposed against the bright and dazzling cheer of the Danish court a resplendent hall of polished surfaces where white rose petals rain down in celebration of the coronation and marriage of King Claudius.Īn incredibly visual translation of the text's themes. For example, when said as a single line without thought, "To be or not to be" is simply six words, however, when said with emphasis on the opposing ideas, the line becomes much more significant. Part of the reason for this is that it helps give the actors direction in how they perform a line.
Antithesis Visualised: Shakespeare was a big fan of placing antonyms up against each other in his dialogue.Here are some things that became apparent for me while I watched the movie - some are particular to the film, and some are just general observations about the way the play represents Shakespeare's ideas and context: Where should I begin? Watching Branagh's film translation of the text helped to nail a lot of ideas down for both myself and my students.
Williams takes a role that could be interpreted as smarmy, or arrogant, and manages to make the character amusingly hapless and somewhat sympathetic.
France's biggest actor, Gerard Depardieu, as the one-scene wonder Reynaldo.Lemmon manages to turn a relatively small role into a figure of depth and weight a wise and half-broken old man of the night's watch. Two-time Academy Award winner and Hollywood legend Jack Lemmon as the watchman Marcellus.So we get a range of surprising cameos throughout:
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