Katherine Rowe wrote this web site, its filled of the View upon the movie and explains the scene and what the director was projecting and how.
http://criticalcommons.org/Members/DigitalShakespeare/lectures/remember-me-technologies-of-memory-in-michael-almereyda2019s-hamlet
4.13.2012
The First Ghost Scene :O
Director: (Michael) Almereyda Hamlet: (Ethan) Hawke
In the third version of Hamlet, Almereyda, the father or the ghost of the father comes and visits his son in his hotel room. The lighting in the room is slightly dim with lamps, giving the scene a touch of dramatic effect. In the begining of this scene Ethan Hawke decides to ad scences in the background, in the television in the room, its full of explosion, and errupting volcanos. This gives the scene a more hellish effect, as the father comes back full of anger and seeking for revenge of his death.
In this version on Hamet, the ghost/ father interacts physicly with him son. He touches his face and grabs him as he is speaking to him, making it as though he is not just a ghost but he is there with Hamlet in flesh. The interaction between Hamlet and his fathers ghost in this version makes it seem and feel real, as though Hamlet is not just seeing things or going crazy but that his father really came back, the director succesfully gave Hamlet credibility.
Not only did Ethan Hawke portray the scene as something real and believable but also he portrays the love between Hamlet and his father, as his father hugs thus embracing Hamlet before he disapears. I believe this embracment gives Hamlet the motivation to follow throught with his fathers wishes to kill his uncle.
In the third version of Hamlet, Almereyda, the father or the ghost of the father comes and visits his son in his hotel room. The lighting in the room is slightly dim with lamps, giving the scene a touch of dramatic effect. In the begining of this scene Ethan Hawke decides to ad scences in the background, in the television in the room, its full of explosion, and errupting volcanos. This gives the scene a more hellish effect, as the father comes back full of anger and seeking for revenge of his death.
In this version on Hamet, the ghost/ father interacts physicly with him son. He touches his face and grabs him as he is speaking to him, making it as though he is not just a ghost but he is there with Hamlet in flesh. The interaction between Hamlet and his fathers ghost in this version makes it seem and feel real, as though Hamlet is not just seeing things or going crazy but that his father really came back, the director succesfully gave Hamlet credibility.
Not only did Ethan Hawke portray the scene as something real and believable but also he portrays the love between Hamlet and his father, as his father hugs thus embracing Hamlet before he disapears. I believe this embracment gives Hamlet the motivation to follow throught with his fathers wishes to kill his uncle.
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