Who was Ophelia?

Ophelia is a character no one really paid attention too, few lines and we dont really see her alot through out the movies or videos.
Ophelia I believe was a really just a sweet innocent girl, a girl who really had a lot to struggle on, stuck between choosing to obey her father or to follow her heart to be with Hamlet. She really had no privacy of her own, you could say she had just as much to deal with as Hamlet did. Everyone was always up in Hamlets business and Ophelia has to always tell her father about things and she really is so obidient to her father that she has to let go of a love she has. She has no mother, she looses her boyfriend, her brother is gone and now her ex boyfriend, a guy she loves kills her father, and I can only imagen the guilt she might feel or think to her self.
Her death is really everyones fault, I mean everything thats going on no one really takes care of ophelia, look after her when her father is killed, she is completley alone, I think I woud go crazy too if I lost everyone around me and I have no one to vent to or to assure me that it was not my fault.

I think Ophelia a the true victem upon this whole situation, all she really wanted to do was to praise her own father with her obidience, but everyones own selfishness and crazyness and obsessions lead her to her own death. Her father was nosey and there for killed by mistake, Hamlet chooses to make her part of his game, leaving her in tears, and when no one is left to be around her and just watch over her like her brother or father, everyone just like forgets about her. Poor Ophelia handeling death and lonleyness on her own. I dont think she would have wanted to bring death upon her self, perhaps she had just fallen on her own into the water, and laying there soaked she thought why not, in the moment she may have just thought to her self well whats left? Gertrude watched this and since she saw it she may have been able to save her.

Ophelia just a misunderstood and lonley girl that was not cared for.

Hamlet's Dilemma

Hamlet has a big decision to make, and that is weather or not he is going to kill his uncle. He does plan to do so and I believe that he has every right to feel as tho he should kill him. 
Right when Hamlet is about to kill his uncle/ step father Claudius he stops, he has this hesitation. He finds his uncle praying and confessing. His uncle recognizes his guilt and is now speaking to God about this wrong doing he has done, Hamlet hesitates and does not kill Claudius. I think any person that was not stuck in the moment of killing or was not persuaded by anything would have hesitated before taking a life. 
Hamlet does not however hesitate because he was taking a life but because he had found his uncle/ step father in redemption, he was covered in guilt asking for forgiveness, asking to be forgiven and this confession has Hamlet thinking of how to kill Claudius now would be completely unfair, Hamlets father died with out a warning without being able to ask for forgiveness for all he has not and is in either purgatory or hell, If Hamlet kills Claudius now that would only send Claudius to heaven, when Hamlet believes he deserves hell.
Hamlet in my opinion is over thinking this, but it shows how angry Hamlet is that his mother would marry the man that killed her husband his father. I think its cruel to want to send this man to eternal suffering but i can understand how frustrated Hamlet must feel and how his feelings would take over and just lead him to such cruelty.

To Be Or Not To Be Speech

Branaugh's Hamlet   has a few interesting ideas. Having hamlet facing and speaking into a mirror is an intense idea, Hamlet is not only questioning life and death but he is looking at him self and asking him self to be or not to be alive. It does however give the character  sense of strength cause it must take a lot to be able to say such words while looking into your own eyes. The director also choose to use a dagger, the dagger its self did not do much other than just emphasize a point, but what was interesting and intense was how Hamlet holds the dagger up to his own head. So not only is he already questioning life but he is watching him self appoint this dagger at him self, the interesting twist to this however id that the mirror was a two way mirror and he is being watched  and spied on. 
What could have been better about this version is the actors reaction and facial expression, throughout this speech Hamlet seems to be serious, very serious but so serious its as tho he has no emotions. he goes through this whole speech with the same expression and kind of gives a sense on false wonder or desire to know what there is beyond this life.


 Zeffirelli's Hamlet By Mel Gibson has to be my favorite for this scene, everything about this scene seemed appropriate. The setting for example, was a very good choice for this specific speech, Hamlet is in the like basement of the castle where the dead bodies are, completely  appropriate for the question, to be or not to be alive. Hamlet in this version speaks and in his voice it self has so much feeling to it, and in his eyes, his facial expression you can tell this character truly wonders and questions him self. Whats really interesting about this version is how Hamlet speaks to his father during this speech as if he was asking his father what it is like to be dead, a dream or a terrible nightmare and he speaks as if was really wanting an answer from his father. The to bo or not to be speech by Mel Gibson was truly for me the best version.

"Remember me" Technologies of Memory in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet

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

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.