Monday, May 11, 2015

Aubrey- to be or not to be

The second scene of Hamlet was very interesting. Hamets soliloquy exposed his true anger instead of his sadness. His quench for death was shown as he seemed to almost pray for his last breaths. He spoke to the bones in the tomb almost as if he were asking how great death tasted. the dark tomb masked a third of Hamet's face leaving us to guess most of his expressions. The small light that was given was dim, and showed his greed. he looked like he wanted to steal the place of one of the dead bodies.
The first scene was very sad. the person who played Hamlets character used his body language to portray sadness. For example, he lays on a rock as to say he has completely given up on living his life. He sighs after every sentence and speaks very slowly , and every single one of his movements were sluggish. he sauntered around the cliff with his feet dragging. The scenery was engulfed in a white cloud of smoke, giving Hamlet a place to disapear.
The third hamlet scene was done in front of a mirror, which i found interesting. Hamlet spoke to himself, but to polonius and claudius at the same time. i loved the dementions of the scene and how his emotion was directed directy to himself.it was amost as if he was talking himsef out of suicide. unfortunately, i didnt quite understand the scenery in this version. Why was there so much light in such a dark scene?
The most modern take confused me a bit. Hamlet did his scene in a space that was familiar to him, which was in a blockbuster. he walked down the action aisle twice as a destructive movie played in the background. Unfortunately, this Hamlet seemed a bit disconnected to me.

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