Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet

Kenneth Branaghs 1996 adaptation of Hamlet is a great way to enjoy the popular Shakespeargon make for. While I effectuate the film to be quite lengthy, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing a film version of the story I provided knew a little min ab out(a) from reading an excerpt of Hamlet in high school. I think Kenneth Branagh did an excellent job in making the screen land into a movie. Everything in every scene couldnt have been done more perfectly. Better yet is the cast, with actors like Kenneth Branagh himself, as Hamlet, Kate Winslet as Ophelia, Billy Crystal, and Robin Williams among numerous other great actors.The tragedy starts with and that, tragedy, the death of Hamlets Father, the king. The movie starts out with the watchmen on duty seeing an apparition of virtually kind, which they subsequent learn is Hamlets deceased vex. The watchmen decide to tell Hamlet of this strange apparition after Hamlets mother, the queens man and wife to her familiar in law. While the weddi ng is going on and after the ceremony, Hamlet is clearly distraught. The queen is marrying Hamlets fathers brother only two short months after his fathers sudden death.The watchmen tell Hamlet of the strange apparition that is haunting them nightly and Hamlet is curious, he wants to see it for himself. In my favorite scene of the entire movie, Hamlet runs through the foggy woods that night, yelling, screaming for his fathers tragic passing. He gets a response from his fathers spirit his fathers voice speaks in the to the highest degree bone chilling voice. He tells Hamlet that his death was most cruel and most unnatural and he makes this very clear, saying it more than once. He says his brother snuck up on him while he was asleep in the orchard and poured a leprous mixture into his ear.The Kings own brother committed the deed that made him fall ill and die or so immediately. Before disappearing into the night, the apparition says to Hamlet Remember me This experience is of course very emotional for Hamlet. Hamlet wants to avenge his fathers death. He decides the only way to wear on the new kings conscience is to put on a play that is basically the story of his fathers betrayal by his brother and the queen for having married him. While this is going on, everyone is saying Hamlet has gone mad because of his erratic behavior, but attributes it to his being do sick over his girl friend, Ophelia.Hamlet loves Ophelia, and she loves him, but her father forbids her to see him any longer. Hamlet is enraged by this, as he is many things Ophelias father says and does. In the heat of an argument, Hamlet kills Ophelias Father. Ophelia is devastated, goes insane, and eventually ends up drowning herself. Ophelias brother returns from France to find out his father has been slain by Hamlet and Ophelia has killed herself. unneeded to say, Ophelias brother is furious. Ophelias brother and the King plan for him and Hamlet to spar. They plan to poison the cup Hamlet drinks fr om during the fight, so he go away doubtless die.While fencing, the King insists that Hamlet drink for doing well, but he refrains and says he will wait until later. Next, the queen offers him a drink, but again he refuses, so she drinks out of the cup that is poisoned instead. The fight turns quite vicious and Ophelias brother is struck down. At the same time the queen has fallen to the floor, dying, saying she had been poisoned before she took her decision breath. Ophelias brother confesses that the King is the one who poisoned the cup in order to kill Hamlet. Hamlet and Ophelias brother make amends before he dies. Enraged, Hamlet goes after the King and feeds him the poison.The King dies. Then Hamlet dies of poisoning. The Norwegian crown prince and his army storm the castle in order to assume the throne, wasting away no time. They are astounded by the royal deaths. I thought the movie had an excellent cast, all great actors that did a wonderful job. Kenneth Branagh made a go od Hamlet. I liked Hamlets character and hoped the best for him, even though I did not agree with some of the things he did. I felt badly for Hamlet, as I also did Ophelia when she took her own heart out of misery. I think it is sad they did not end up in concert but then again thats the point, its a tragedy.I loved the original King, although he wasnt in the movie much in life form, he seemed like a fair and wise King. The actor who played the king did a fantastic job in the foggy woods scene. solely in all the entire cast was very convincing, so much that you either came to love or hate the characters. I think there are many themes in Hamlet. The one that stands out the most is the importance of thinking before acting. Hamlet does and says many things he might not if he took some time to first cool down. It seems as if he is too hasty to act and this often gets him into trouble making terrible things happen that he cant simply take back.Another lesson to take from Hamlet is that nothing is forever and nothing is certain. Hamlet wrestled with the validity of the experience of his fathers apparition, he questioned whether or not it really happened. For some things in this life there is no hard science. Sometimes the answers are not always clear you just have to trust your own judgment. I really enjoyed observance the movie version of Hamlet. Quite honestly I thought turning a play into a movie would be difficult to make interesting, but it was done extremely well. I would love to go to a real live play version of Hamlet.I think the experience of seeing the acting up close on a stage would be totally different then watching the movie because the audience is able to get more involved in the story, but the movie is a good way to go if you dont have the opportunity to see the play. The minor special effects in the movie really help to draw you in, but its nothing prodigious that couldnt be done on stage as well. Hamlet is a classic story that has stood the tes t of time. Im sure it will never stop being reenacted and adapted for movies in generations to come.