Feb 4-Feb 11 Hamlet III Quotes or Director's Choice
Either pick another quote from Act III and reflect on its importance to the play or choose one of the choices the director made and reflect on how that choice helped to add clarity to the play.
After watching act 3 I have a totally different perception of the way that Hamlet acts. I think the movie made Hamlet appear much more crazy than the book does. I thought the scene where everyone was watching the play was especially interesting. In the movie Hamlet is talking very loudly, he is obnoxious and everyone who is in the auditorium is listening to him. You can see the faces of the people around him and they are all uncomfortable and embarrassed. Also Hamlet actually jumped up on the stage at the part where the actor poisons the king in the play, and the book doesnt say anything about this. I thought that the movie made it extremely obvious that Hamlet knew what Claudius did, and it made it seem as if Hamlet was warning Claudius, instead of testing him to see if he actually committed the crime.
After watching act 3 I have a totally different perception of the way that Hamlet acts. I think the movie made Hamlet appear much more crazy than the book does. I thought the scene where everyone was watching the play was especially interesting. In the movie Hamlet is talking very loudly, he is obnoxious and everyone who is in the auditorium is listening to him. You can see the faces of the people around him and they are all uncomfortable and embarrassed. Also Hamlet actually jumped up on the stage at the part where the actor poisons the king in the play, and the book doesnt say anything about this. I thought that the movie made it extremely obvious that Hamlet knew what Claudius did, and it made it seem as if Hamlet was warning Claudius, instead of testing him to see if he actually committed the crime.
I believe that the movie shows different aspects of the play than the book does. While watching this act, I got more of a realistic vibe When hamlet is checking the doors for Claudius, or when he is on the stage during the play. The book left out parts such as Hamlet actually going on the stage during the play, as well as his whole physical expressions. While reading it in class, without expression, it is very hard to understand how insanse Hamlet appears to be. He appears much more crazy then he did in the first acts, and i wonder if this pattern will continue throughout the rest of the play. Everyone seems to be annoyed with him, and he made it very obvious in my perspective that he knows that Claudius poisoned his father. I am curious to see what happens in the next act, and what Hamlet does to Claudius.
I think that the director's choices in the film really helped to pshow Hamlet and Ophelia in a more realistic/human-like fashon. The discussion between Hamlet and Ophelia is much more emotional than in the book and the director made Hamlet seem more crazy and Ophelia more frightened. The director's portrayal of Hamlet encourages the viewer to see him as more dangerous than in the book and it caused me to question whether or not Hamlet's actions were acceptable. The book is written mainly from Hamlet's side/point of view, but the movie depicts Hamlet in a less positive light.
There are many scenes that I pictured very differently in Hamlet after watching some of Act III today in class. I think the greatest difference that I did not think about was the setting of the play in the great hall room, and where everyone was positioned. I thought that having Hamlet rushing down the stairs every scene and loudly questioning the King and Queen made his actions look even more out of place, because they were seated so high above him. I thought that even though they are higher in power, the height between them significantly increased this. You could tell that it was wrong for Hamlet to question them in that setting, especially because there were so many people around them, and also because without trying, the King and Queen looked down upon him and seemed to do so without approval.
I also thought that the director made every character much more dramatic, because they seemed to all rush through their lines with great haste. This was a huge difference from reading out loud in class, because the actors in the movie were much more enthusiastic and dramatic.
After seeing act 3 of Hamlet my views have changed a bit. Hamlet seems a lot more crazy than I thought. The way he talks loud and the time and he changes his voice and it is kinda funny. Also I thought that with all the crazy going on, that when King Claudius saw the play he would be in more shock then saying quietly that he needs some light. The movie keeps showing all there faces and it looks like Claudius becomes nervous, but he doesn't have a big outburst like Hamlets character does. I don't really like Hamlet's sword. In the book it says sword, but in the film, I would call that a dagger, or knife, I was expecting a big sword to be drawn out. Overall though I like most of the directors decisions though.
I enjoyed watching act 3 in the movie becuase it helped me get a clearer sense of how crazy Hamlet was really acting. From reading the book I got the idea that Hamlet was just saying crazy things but not really acting mad. The director in the movie however chose to portray Hamlet as a mad person who is dangerous. This is especially seen in the scene where Hamlet talks to Ophelia. I thought the way that the director chose to have Hamlet drag and throw Ophelia around really allowed the audience to see just how out of line Hamlet was acting.
I agree with what Jamie said on how the movie made Hamlet look a lot more crazy than the book. In the book when he is talking to Ophelia while Claudius and Polonius are watching he seems like he is whispering to her and then in the movie he is a lot more agresive and physically abusive to her. In the movie he yells in her face and then when he is looking for Polonius and Claudius he drags her on the floor and pushes her to the ground. This made Hamlet look a lot more crazy than in the book.
I think that the way Hamlet acts in the movie is very different than how I thought he acted in the play. In the play I imagined Hamlet and Ophelia having much less physical contact in the discussion and I think that Hamlet was probably not quite so aggressive. Also, I thought that their conversation would have been in a more private hallway or small room not in a foyer where there are often large gatherings. I think that some of the directors choices for the play may have been made to make the movie more interesting rather than following the suggestions the text implies.
I think the movie has a lot of scenes that could support claims that Hamlet has an "obsession" of some sort with his mother. In many scenes he focuses on her and forgets what he was doing in the first place. Like when he was trying to catch Cladius acting guilty during the play and instead he asks his mother how she likes it. He focuses all of his energy on the fact that his mother is having an intimate relationship with his Uncle and kind of puts the death and murder of his father to the back.I think all this sums up the fact that he may have some type of unhealthy obsession with her mom because of the amount of time and energy spent thinking about, criticizing and observing her every move.
I enjoyed the director's choice in the interaction between Hamlet and Opehila. The scene where she tries to give him back his little gifts and things where he throws her around really shows how crazy he is acting and now it makes sense why Ophelia is so upset by him (besides him telling her to go to a nunnery so many times). The way that he drags her around the room, looking for the king and Polonius spying also shows that he is not as crazy as he is acting, he has the sense to look for the listeners in this clearly staged encounter. As a whole this scene just made Hamlet and Opelia's relationship more tender (he greeted her with a kiss), and then even more heartbreaking (when he practically calls her a whore).
I think that in the movie, the Play scene was a lot more exaggerated than I read from the text. It showed Hamlet to be a much more tortured and crazy character. I didn't expect the conversation between him and Ophelia to be as loud and really obvious. The overall setting of the Play scene was a lot different than I thought. I also didn't expect the scene in the great hall where Ophelia is talking to Hamlet, and Claudius and Polonius are hiding to be so exaggerated. The conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia seemed like it wouldn't have been so full of anger, and it really shows the extent to which the Director thought Hamlet was crazy.
"To be or not to be ...To die, to sleep - no more - and by a sleep to say we end."Act 3, sc. 1
The above quote is spoken by Hamlet to Ophelia just after the King and Polonius leave to go find a place to spy on Hamlet. I think this quote gives us further insight into Hamlets character. This quote shows us Hamlets current state of mind and how he reacts to Ophelia in this section by being very pervertive and rude. This could be proof of Hamlet becoming more and more crazy. This also could gives us a hint at how the play with end. I think it will end with Hamlet dying in his sleep maybe by poison or something.
"Calls virtue hypocrite, tkaes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister of an innocent love and sets a blister there,..." Act 3, sc4
Hamlet was telling his mother that she was an innocent girl. Then she married her husband brother. Because she did this the rose that was a symbol of purity and then was replaced with a blister. A blister of sin.
In the Hamlet movie, Hamlet's vigor and constant shouting help to emphasize his craziness and hurt. He is confused, angered and lost. He essentially man-handles Ophelia, thrashing her about and yelling in her face. He further throws his mother on her bed when telling her not to engage with King Claudius anymore. When at the play, he yells loudly and directly targets his mother (looking at her) in his speeches. His facial expression and tone of voice overall help to emphasize his character and add depth to the play.
Being able to watch Act 3 after reading it has helped me a great deal be able to comprehend the text and see how the characters relate to one another. However, the director's choice does seem to change my first opinions of what happens in the book. For example, during the play of "The mousetrap/ The murder of Gonzago" I thought that Hamlet was talking quietly to the people around him, ie: Ophelia. However, in the movie Hamlet seems very disruptive to the entire audience from how loud he talks and by him standing up and going to the front of the stage. Also, by the way the audience was positioned in a sort of a "v" shape. You could tell how easily the audience was irritated with Hamlet by just seeing their heads turn to look up at him.
I found the choice of the director in the movie to be an interesting reflection of the actual act. Hamlet appeared to be more erratic in the film. This was most apparent in the bedroom scene with his mother when he grabbeing her and throwing her around. While reading this scene in the book, I did not picture him being so violent with her. Another example of this was during the play when Hamlet was yelling so loudly that everyone could hear him. In the book I pictured him simply stating it to Ophelia. So far I have liked the director's choices in the film, but my least favorite part would probably be Hamlets actions during the play, because I felt as though he was overexaggerating.
I agree with both Jamie and Yasmin on this blog. During the dumb-show scene when Hamlet was looking back at the King and then got up and started yelling and causing a ruckus, I found it to be very different than the book had made that act seem like. When Hamlet looked up to the King it showed the difference in power between the two, but I never imagined Hamlet to be quite as annoying and loud as the movie portrayed him. Also with the scene of Hamlet and his mother in Act four, Hamlet tended to be very very violent with his mother. He was throwing her on the bed, screaming at her, and he acted as a madman. The book never made me sense that Hamlet was mad but after the movie I believe he was.
I agree with both Jamie and Yasmin on this blog. During the dumb-show scene when Hamlet was looking back at the King and then got up and started yelling and causing a ruckus, I found it to be very different than the book had made that act seem like. When Hamlet looked up to the King it showed the difference in power between the two, but I never imagined Hamlet to be quite as annoying and loud as the movie portrayed him. Also with the scene of Hamlet and his mother in Act four, Hamlet tended to be very very violent with his mother. He was throwing her on the bed, screaming at her, and he acted as a madman. The book never made me sense that Hamlet was mad but after the movie I believe he was.
Throughout the play I had imagined Hamlet to be more withdrawn from the other characters, however the director made him seem very outspoken in this act. I especially noticed this when he was talking to his mother and Ophelia. Not only was he loud, controlling and verbally agressive, but he physically grabbed them and even threw his mother onto the bed. This made me go from thinking that Hamlet was just emotionally depressed to thinking that he might actually be crazy. I found it interesting that the director made Hamlet seems so unstable and irrational and was constantly portraying this theme throughout the entire third act. I hadn't noticed Hamlets instabilty as much until I watched the film and because of this, my view of him changed dramatically.
In the film, the director protrayed many of the characters very differently than I had imagined them to be while reading act 3. The most prominant differences were in Hamlet and Polonius. I imagined Hamlet to be more reserved and serious, simply trying to get under the skin of the other characters. In the film, Hamlet was much more forceful and loud than I pictured him especially when he was talking to Ophelia and his mother, he was very physical with them. As for Polonius, I imagined him to be more focused on Hamlet and the plans to figure hime out but in the film, he comforted Ophelia while talking to the King. I thought he would just send her away saying, "you don't need to tell us anything, we heard it all". The way the director portrayed these characters slightly changed my views of them.
In the production of Hamlet the director chose to exaggerate a lot of the actions that Hamlet does. For example, in the scene where the Players come out, Hamlet gives a running commentary with such vigor and spite (towards the Queen and King) that it seems like he's giving himself and his plot away. The "method in his madness" is also more apparent, you can tell that he act crazy around certain people. When he is arguing with Ophelia about how he didn't give her anything and he didn't love her, he gets a lot more physical than I imagined in the book version. Finally, towards the end of Scene 3 when Hamlet is in his mom's room he seems to be more violent with her than I imagined in the novel as well. I feel like a lot of Hamlet's anger comes from his supressed feelings and the internal confusion; he doesn't really seem to know his philosophy in life or doesn't really live by any serious rules.
I think that there are multiple choices that the Director made that enhanced the play in general. For one, the play really exaggerates the way Hamlet really hates Polonius and the way he talks to him. Of course, in the play he does this too, but in the movie he completely changed his tone of voice when talking to Polonius and went a little beyond just mocking him. Then, after he killed him, it seemed that he wasn't really all that surprised or angry that is was Polonius instead of Claudius and he seemed to shrug it off. Also, the director adds in the pictures that Hamlet holds showing Claudius and the Old King when he is talking to his mother, which I think really clarifies what he is saying.
After watching the play Hamlets true character seems to shine through. When everyone was watching the dumb show you could tell he was out of place when he interrupted the show. You could also see a type of hierarchy as the people sat in the theatre; with the king and queen at the top and the most noble. The emotions he showed towards his mother and Ophelia. He was very violent towards them and you could tell he was aggressive and out of control. I thought in the beginning that Hamlet was just all talk, but that changed when he killed Claudius and left his mother to weep alone and upset.
There were a couple choices by the director that surprised me during act III of the movie. The first was how loud Hamlet was during the play, "Mousetrap", and how much of a scene he made in the theater. From the book I thought it would be more side comments that only his mother and King Claudius could hear. Everyone in the theater was able to hear what he was accusing the King of. Another thing that surprised me was how agressive Hamlet was when he encountered Ophelia. The way he talked to her was very harsh and Ophelia couldn't do anything to stop it. It was an interesting choice by the director to film from inside the glass that Hamlet pushed Ophelia's face against. I didn't expect that.
One part of Act 3 from the movie that wasn't how I pictured it was how Hamlet threw his mother around and screamed so loudly. I found this a little extreme because it would have been more powerful if Hamlet had been quieter. A quiet anger is much more interesting and much less obnoxious than screaming. I noticed that Hamlet is too melodramatic for almost all his great scenes and soliloquy's. I think that the director chose to use to much drama with Hamlets mother because it would have shown how his misfortune has caused him to be crazy and ambivalent. The throwing of the mother is also too disturbing because Hamlet is not supposed to hurt his mother.
I believe that the director the the play Hamlet took a more dramatic twist to every scene than one can perceive from reading the book. This is extremely obvious in three scenes with the character Hamlet. First, when Hamlet and Ophelia are speaking in the beginning of the act he is being extremely loud, rude and extremely violent with her. Also, in scene where the play "moustrap" is going on Hamlet is obnoxious, crazy and loud throughout the entire play. Also, Hamlet is being extremely physical and violent with his mother in scene four which is not obvious in the play.
The movie in my opinion was a lot more dramatic than i would have imagined the play would be. One scene that i found to be overly dramatic was the "send the to a nunery" scene. I didn't expect Hamlet to throw Ofelia around like he did. In the book I didn't see any evidence that there would be a larbe amount of vigor in Hamlet's speach. But yet again, Shakepeare's plays have very little to no stage directions in them at all. I think that Hamlet gave more direction to the player than Shakespeare gave in the entire play.
i found it interesting how hamlet acts in the movie. To me the way he acts he seems a lot more crazy then i pictured him to be. I expected him to be smarter and i thought he would only act crazy in some spots just to mess with peoples minds but after watching it he seems like hes crazy all the time.
I thought that the movie portrayed a much more violent Hamlet than what I thought was in the book. The way he physically abused Ophilia when they we arguing however, did give that speech a much more significant impact for me. When I am reading the book I just get those bored and tired voices of your 1st period class as the voices in my minds eye and things are much less interesting to me. Hamlet also seemed to have much more pained and crazed character in the book. I am very glad we are watching the movie with reading it because it is really helping me put an image with the confusing wording of Shakespear.
After watching Act 3, I have a better understanding of the play in Act 3. When Hamlet talks about "Honest" and "Beauty," I was not sure what he was refering to as to what he was saying to Ophelia, but through the director choices of having Hamlet acts the way he did, it shows that Hamlet has some hatred toward her although he loves her very much. Through reading the play, it was more confusing because I was not sure what he means by that, and on top of that, there was no emotional indication of his affection toward her comparing to the movie. However, Mr. Schindler has helped explain what it could means by that, but I am still confuse why would Hamlet treat Ophelia the way he did.
I think that the movie differed from the play in that Hamlet was much more exaggerated in the movie. He is much more annoying and causes a lot more of a scene in the movie than described in the book. He also looks like he is in a lot more emotional pain in the movie than the book. The way that he talks to himself in the movie sounds a lot more sad than in the book also.
After watching Act III i have a different understanding on the way Hamlet acts while talking to his mother. In the book it just seems like they are sitting somewhere having a discussion. In the movie however he is running all over the place. Another thing that the director does in the movie is makes it more obvious when Hamelt is compairing his father and uncle with the photos to his mother.It also gives a visual of how his father looks like a god and then his uncle looks like scum.
I think the directors choice on displaying Hamlet helped inprove the overall play. Hamlet's overdramatic actions during "the mouse trap" helped promote the course of how the rest of the play would go. He was loud and disruptive showing that he had strong feeling on how things were going about. Overall I think the play has only gotten more interesting because of Hamlet's actions.
After watching Act 3 in the movie i thought the director made most of the scenes with Hamlet really intense. For example during the play when he's badgering Ophelia i did not expect that he would be projecting out so a bunch of people would be subjected to watch he was saying nor when he questioned his mother. Also when he had his one on one with Ophelia i thought that he was a little too rough and somewhat actually a crazy. The director probably made these choices to show that Hamlet is dedicated to the avenging his fathers death thing.
After watching Act 3 enacted on screen it was clear that the director made many choices. The director chose to have Hamlet know that Polonius was hiding. This means that the director believed that many of the things Hamlet said to Ophelia were meant to be heard by Polonius and then be reported back to the king. This changes how we can read what was said to Ophelia. Hamlet may have been intentionally insulting her just to rile up Polonius or acting violent and crazy just to keep up the act.
The director's choice to make the scene in which Hamlet meets with his mother in her room violent and charged was very interesting and a little shocking to me. I definitely thought that Hamlet was angry in the scene, but taking it to the point of physical violence where he throws his mother around the room was a bit much and frankly a little far-fetched. Throughout the whole Act the movie had Hamlet acting extremely crazy and often had him getting very violent, and I feel that it was way overdone.
Act 3 scene 4 Page 183 " [There's letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows, Whom i will trust as i will adders fanged, They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery;"
In this quote said by Hamlet, he is being sarcastic and talking about Rosebcrantz and Guildenstern his friends and saying basicaly that he trusts them as much as he would trust a snake with fangs. Saying obviously that he dosent trust them with telling them anything. He knows that they are up to games and that they have been talking to King Claudius and he has been plannin somthing to get Hamlet to leave and go back to school. Hamlet will not fall for what he believes is a fake sort of friendship and will not trust either of them.
I thought it was interesting how the beginning scene with hamlet and Ophelia was portrayed by Branagh. when Hamlet was holding her by the neck and dragging her down the hall opening all of the doors. Branagh insinuated that Hamlet knew he was being watched and caught on rather quickly. i thought it was an interesting thing to have Hamlet do while he was admonishing Ophelia. Otherwise they would have been standing around jawing back and forth. It presented Hamlet as both a little more crazy, but mostly as a lot more cunning than his character sounds in the play.
I thought that it was really interesting the way the director chose to portray Hamlet when he was talking to Ophelia telling her to go to a nunnery. He had Hamlet being very aggressive with her and throwing her against the mirrors and being very rough. When I read the book I was not thinking that this was going on. I dont know exactly what the director was trying to emphasize by doing this.
I think the movie shows more vividly how rediculous Hamlet is. He seems more crazy in the movie because we can actually see him and hear his words at the same time. I like the movie because we get a better picture of what is really going on and it seems more easy to understand.
The director chose to take a completely different perspective on Hamlet than I thought he was going to. For one thing, he took the perspective of the bystanders, not of Hamlet himself. In the book, you can really connect with his emotions and hatred for his stepfather, and the view point is somewhat distributed throughout the characters. However, in Act III of the film, I felt that the director focused more on the perspective of those interacting with Hamlet to give those watching the film the idea that Hamlet is actually insane. In movie I still connected a little like I did when I read Act III with Hamlet but the visuals of him tossing Ophelia and Gertrude around and his angry, shrill screams, not to mention how odd he behaves when he talks to himself in his famous speech.
The scene that tuck out the most was the one in the theater. In the book the lines did not seem as life like or forceful. The director of the movie gave them life. The characters were boisterous and full of vigor. Hamlet was angered and the scene itself made more sense than it did in the book.
The idea that Hamlet is truly crazy comes thru in the lines of the book as opposed to the scenes in the movie. I don't see Hamlet's pure insanity in the actor's motions or tone of the movie. More so, his reactions and the big speech to his mother about Claudius and his father was a very human reaction. Putting things into perspective, if my father had just died, I wouldn't be all that sane either. The crazy side of Hamlet comes out when he kills Polonius by accident and sees the ghost of his father again. These are also carried away emotions. It is very easy to guess or predict in the movie what Hamlet will do next because his movements are very strong.
The idea that Hamlet is truly crazy comes thru in the lines of the book as opposed to the scenes in the movie. I don't see Hamlet's pure insanity in the actor's motions or tone of the movie. More so, his reactions and the big speech to his mother about Claudius and his father was a very human reaction. Putting things into perspective, if my father had just died, I wouldn't be all that sane either. The crazy side of Hamlet comes out when he kills Polonius by accident and sees the ghost of his father again. These are also carried away emotions. It is very easy to guess or predict in the movie what Hamlet will do next because his movements are very strong.
I really saw the part of Hamlet with the play playing out entirely different than what was in the movie, where Hamlet up and down the rows and even crashes onto the stage to really say something about how Hamlet acts, another credit to Hamlet's fancies that I saw differently in the book than in the movie was the scene with Claudius and Polonius hiding behind the curtain. Instead of a curtain, a two-way mirror was used and I really worked well, especially with the way Hamlet was now throwing Ophelia around and bashing her into the wall, which I didn't feel was implied in the written play at all
In the movie version of Act III I have a new look at the directors choice to portray the dead King actually in the scene where Hamlet could see him. In this the Queen can not see the ghost however when we see the Ghost through Hamlet's eyes he is clear as day and earlier in the movie when we first saw him, he was portrayed as a ghost by having an image floating above Hamlet and the guards with a light behind the Ghost and the Ghost in full armor. Also the decision of the director for the second time the Ghost appears to have him not in armor and just in a robe is different than I believed in the book. This director's choice has changed my view on the book that now each time the Ghost appears I have the perception that he could have changed outfits oneway or another.
I thought that the director of the play made some very interesting choices on how to portray scene 3. While reading the play I interpreted parts differently and was quite suprised when i saw the movie. One part that stuck out to me was when Hamlet was talking to Ophelia and his mother. He was much more violent than I expected, and he almost seemed posessed. This relates to the quote earlier on in the book when Hamlet talks about how he might act in an anticdisposition. While reading I thought he was crazy but when I saw the movie, there were many violent motions and the director interpreted Hamlet as controlling and you could almost say he manhandled Ophelia and his mother. I see how the director could get his interpretation but I think it was a little too exagerated. It however can be argued that there was "method in his madness."
I loved the scene with all of the mirrors in the grand hall during the argument between Hamlet and Ophelia and his soliloquy that follows. The use of mirrors added another dimension for the scene. Also, I would have never though of using this type of scenery in such a creative way. Lastly, I created a lot of suspense because it seemed as though at any moment Hamlet could choose the door that the king and Polonius were hiding behind, revealing their scheme, and possibly leading to the death of the king.
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After watching act 3 I have a totally different perception of the way that Hamlet acts. I think the movie made Hamlet appear much more crazy than the book does. I thought the scene where everyone was watching the play was especially interesting. In the movie Hamlet is talking very loudly, he is obnoxious and everyone who is in the auditorium is listening to him. You can see the faces of the people around him and they are all uncomfortable and embarrassed. Also Hamlet actually jumped up on the stage at the part where the actor poisons the king in the play, and the book doesnt say anything about this. I thought that the movie made it extremely obvious that Hamlet knew what Claudius did, and it made it seem as if Hamlet was warning Claudius, instead of testing him to see if he actually committed the crime.
After watching act 3 I have a totally different perception of the way that Hamlet acts. I think the movie made Hamlet appear much more crazy than the book does. I thought the scene where everyone was watching the play was especially interesting. In the movie Hamlet is talking very loudly, he is obnoxious and everyone who is in the auditorium is listening to him. You can see the faces of the people around him and they are all uncomfortable and embarrassed. Also Hamlet actually jumped up on the stage at the part where the actor poisons the king in the play, and the book doesnt say anything about this. I thought that the movie made it extremely obvious that Hamlet knew what Claudius did, and it made it seem as if Hamlet was warning Claudius, instead of testing him to see if he actually committed the crime.
I believe that the movie shows different aspects of the play than the book does. While watching this act, I got more of a realistic vibe When hamlet is checking the doors for Claudius, or when he is on the stage during the play. The book left out parts such as Hamlet actually going on the stage during the play, as well as his whole physical expressions. While reading it in class, without expression, it is very hard to understand how insanse Hamlet appears to be. He appears much more crazy then he did in the first acts, and i wonder if this pattern will continue throughout the rest of the play. Everyone seems to be annoyed with him, and he made it very obvious in my perspective that he knows that Claudius poisoned his father. I am curious to see what happens in the next act, and what Hamlet does to Claudius.
I think that the director's choices in the film really helped to pshow Hamlet and Ophelia in a more realistic/human-like fashon. The discussion between Hamlet and Ophelia is much more emotional than in the book and the director made Hamlet seem more crazy and Ophelia more frightened. The director's portrayal of Hamlet encourages the viewer to see him as more dangerous than in the book and it caused me to question whether or not Hamlet's actions were acceptable. The book is written mainly from Hamlet's side/point of view, but the movie depicts Hamlet in a less positive light.
There are many scenes that I pictured very differently in Hamlet after watching some of Act III today in class. I think the greatest difference that I did not think about was the setting of the play in the great hall room, and where everyone was positioned. I thought that having Hamlet rushing down the stairs every scene and loudly questioning the King and Queen made his actions look even more out of place, because they were seated so high above him. I thought that even though they are higher in power, the height between them significantly increased this. You could tell that it was wrong for Hamlet to question them in that setting, especially because there were so many people around them, and also because without trying, the King and Queen looked down upon him and seemed to do so without approval.
I also thought that the director made every character much more dramatic, because they seemed to all rush through their lines with great haste. This was a huge difference from reading out loud in class, because the actors in the movie were much more enthusiastic and dramatic.
After seeing act 3 of Hamlet my views have changed a bit. Hamlet seems a lot more crazy than I thought. The way he talks loud and the time and he changes his voice and it is kinda funny. Also I thought that with all the crazy going on, that when King Claudius saw the play he would be in more shock then saying quietly that he needs some light. The movie keeps showing all there faces and it looks like Claudius becomes nervous, but he doesn't have a big outburst like Hamlets character does. I don't really like Hamlet's sword. In the book it says sword, but in the film, I would call that a dagger, or knife, I was expecting a big sword to be drawn out. Overall though I like most of the directors decisions though.
I enjoyed watching act 3 in the movie becuase it helped me get a clearer sense of how crazy Hamlet was really acting. From reading the book I got the idea that Hamlet was just saying crazy things but not really acting mad. The director in the movie however chose to portray Hamlet as a mad person who is dangerous. This is especially seen in the scene where Hamlet talks to Ophelia. I thought the way that the director chose to have Hamlet drag and throw Ophelia around really allowed the audience to see just how out of line Hamlet was acting.
I agree with what Jamie said on how the movie made Hamlet look a lot more crazy than the book. In the book when he is talking to Ophelia while Claudius and Polonius are watching he seems like he is whispering to her and then in the movie he is a lot more agresive and physically abusive to her. In the movie he yells in her face and then when he is looking for Polonius and Claudius he drags her on the floor and pushes her to the ground. This made Hamlet look a lot more crazy than in the book.
I think that the way Hamlet acts in the movie is very different than how I thought he acted in the play. In the play I imagined Hamlet and Ophelia having much less physical contact in the discussion and I think that Hamlet was probably not quite so aggressive. Also, I thought that their conversation would have been in a more private hallway or small room not in a foyer where there are often large gatherings. I think that some of the directors choices for the play may have been made to make the movie more interesting rather than following the suggestions the text implies.
I think the movie has a lot of scenes that could support claims that Hamlet has an "obsession" of some sort with his mother. In many scenes he focuses on her and forgets what he was doing in the first place. Like when he was trying to catch Cladius acting guilty during the play and instead he asks his mother how she likes it. He focuses all of his energy on the fact that his mother is having an intimate relationship with his Uncle and kind of puts the death and murder of his father to the back.I think all this sums up the fact that he may have some type of unhealthy obsession with her mom because of the amount of time and energy spent thinking about, criticizing and observing her every move.
I enjoyed the director's choice in the interaction between Hamlet and Opehila. The scene where she tries to give him back his little gifts and things where he throws her around really shows how crazy he is acting and now it makes sense why Ophelia is so upset by him (besides him telling her to go to a nunnery so many times). The way that he drags her around the room, looking for the king and Polonius spying also shows that he is not as crazy as he is acting, he has the sense to look for the listeners in this clearly staged encounter. As a whole this scene just made Hamlet and Opelia's relationship more tender (he greeted her with a kiss), and then even more heartbreaking (when he practically calls her a whore).
I think that in the movie, the Play scene was a lot more exaggerated than I read from the text. It showed Hamlet to be a much more tortured and crazy character. I didn't expect the conversation between him and Ophelia to be as loud and really obvious. The overall setting of the Play scene was a lot different than I thought. I also didn't expect the scene in the great hall where Ophelia is talking to Hamlet, and Claudius and Polonius are hiding to be so exaggerated. The conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia seemed like it wouldn't have been so full of anger, and it really shows the extent to which the Director thought Hamlet was crazy.
"To be or not to be ...To die, to sleep - no more - and by a sleep to say we end."Act 3, sc. 1
The above quote is spoken by Hamlet to Ophelia just after the King and Polonius leave to go find a place to spy on Hamlet. I think this quote gives us further insight into Hamlets character. This quote shows us Hamlets current state of mind and how he reacts to Ophelia in this section by being very pervertive and rude. This could be proof of Hamlet becoming more and more crazy. This also could gives us a hint at how the play with end. I think it will end with Hamlet dying in his sleep maybe by poison or something.
"Calls virtue hypocrite, tkaes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister of an innocent love and sets a blister there,..." Act 3, sc4
Hamlet was telling his mother that she was an innocent girl. Then she married her husband brother. Because she did this the rose that was a symbol of purity and then was replaced with a blister. A blister of sin.
In the Hamlet movie, Hamlet's vigor and constant shouting help to emphasize his craziness and hurt. He is confused, angered and lost. He essentially man-handles Ophelia, thrashing her about and yelling in her face. He further throws his mother on her bed when telling her not to engage with King Claudius anymore. When at the play, he yells loudly and directly targets his mother (looking at her) in his speeches. His facial expression and tone of voice overall help to emphasize his character and add depth to the play.
Being able to watch Act 3 after reading it has helped me a great deal be able to comprehend the text and see how the characters relate to one another. However, the director's choice does seem to change my first opinions of what happens in the book. For example, during the play of "The mousetrap/ The murder of Gonzago" I thought that Hamlet was talking quietly to the people around him, ie: Ophelia. However, in the movie Hamlet seems very disruptive to the entire audience from how loud he talks and by him standing up and going to the front of the stage. Also, by the way the audience was positioned in a sort of a "v" shape. You could tell how easily the audience was irritated with Hamlet by just seeing their heads turn to look up at him.
I found the choice of the director in the movie to be an interesting reflection of the actual act. Hamlet appeared to be more erratic in the film. This was most apparent in the bedroom scene with his mother when he grabbeing her and throwing her around. While reading this scene in the book, I did not picture him being so violent with her. Another example of this was during the play when Hamlet was yelling so loudly that everyone could hear him. In the book I pictured him simply stating it to Ophelia. So far I have liked the director's choices in the film, but my least favorite part would probably be Hamlets actions during the play, because I felt as though he was overexaggerating.
I agree with both Jamie and Yasmin on this blog.
During the dumb-show scene when Hamlet was looking back at the King and then got up and started yelling and causing a ruckus, I found it to be very different than the book had made that act seem like. When Hamlet looked up to the King it showed the difference in power between the two, but I never imagined Hamlet to be quite as annoying and loud as the movie portrayed him.
Also with the scene of Hamlet and his mother in Act four, Hamlet tended to be very very violent with his mother. He was throwing her on the bed, screaming at her, and he acted as a madman. The book never made me sense that Hamlet was mad but after the movie I believe he was.
I agree with both Jamie and Yasmin on this blog.
During the dumb-show scene when Hamlet was looking back at the King and then got up and started yelling and causing a ruckus, I found it to be very different than the book had made that act seem like. When Hamlet looked up to the King it showed the difference in power between the two, but I never imagined Hamlet to be quite as annoying and loud as the movie portrayed him.
Also with the scene of Hamlet and his mother in Act four, Hamlet tended to be very very violent with his mother. He was throwing her on the bed, screaming at her, and he acted as a madman. The book never made me sense that Hamlet was mad but after the movie I believe he was.
Throughout the play I had imagined Hamlet to be more withdrawn from the other characters, however the director made him seem very outspoken in this act. I especially noticed this when he was talking to his mother and Ophelia. Not only was he loud, controlling and verbally agressive, but he physically grabbed them and even threw his mother onto the bed. This made me go from thinking that Hamlet was just emotionally depressed to thinking that he might actually be crazy. I found it interesting that the director made Hamlet seems so unstable and irrational and was constantly portraying this theme throughout the entire third act. I hadn't noticed Hamlets instabilty as much until I watched the film and because of this, my view of him changed dramatically.
In the film, the director protrayed many of the characters very differently than I had imagined them to be while reading act 3. The most prominant differences were in Hamlet and Polonius. I imagined Hamlet to be more reserved and serious, simply trying to get under the skin of the other characters. In the film, Hamlet was much more forceful and loud than I pictured him especially when he was talking to Ophelia and his mother, he was very physical with them. As for Polonius, I imagined him to be more focused on Hamlet and the plans to figure hime out but in the film, he comforted Ophelia while talking to the King. I thought he would just send her away saying, "you don't need to tell us anything, we heard it all". The way the director portrayed these characters slightly changed my views of them.
In the production of Hamlet the director chose to exaggerate a lot of the actions that Hamlet does. For example, in the scene where the Players come out, Hamlet gives a running commentary with such vigor and spite (towards the Queen and King) that it seems like he's giving himself and his plot away. The "method in his madness" is also more apparent, you can tell that he act crazy around certain people. When he is arguing with Ophelia about how he didn't give her anything and he didn't love her, he gets a lot more physical than I imagined in the book version. Finally, towards the end of Scene 3 when Hamlet is in his mom's room he seems to be more violent with her than I imagined in the novel as well. I feel like a lot of Hamlet's anger comes from his supressed feelings and the internal confusion; he doesn't really seem to know his philosophy in life or doesn't really live by any serious rules.
I think that there are multiple choices that the Director made that enhanced the play in general. For one, the play really exaggerates the way Hamlet really hates Polonius and the way he talks to him. Of course, in the play he does this too, but in the movie he completely changed his tone of voice when talking to Polonius and went a little beyond just mocking him. Then, after he killed him, it seemed that he wasn't really all that surprised or angry that is was Polonius instead of Claudius and he seemed to shrug it off. Also, the director adds in the pictures that Hamlet holds showing Claudius and the Old King when he is talking to his mother, which I think really clarifies what he is saying.
After watching the play Hamlets true character seems to shine through. When everyone was watching the dumb show you could tell he was out of place when he interrupted the show. You could also see a type of hierarchy as the people sat in the theatre; with the king and queen at the top and the most noble. The emotions he showed towards his mother and Ophelia. He was very violent towards them and you could tell he was aggressive and out of control. I thought in the beginning that Hamlet was just all talk, but that changed when he killed Claudius and left his mother to weep alone and upset.
There were a couple choices by the director that surprised me during act III of the movie. The first was how loud Hamlet was during the play, "Mousetrap", and how much of a scene he made in the theater. From the book I thought it would be more side comments that only his mother and King Claudius could hear. Everyone in the theater was able to hear what he was accusing the King of. Another thing that surprised me was how agressive Hamlet was when he encountered Ophelia. The way he talked to her was very harsh and Ophelia couldn't do anything to stop it. It was an interesting choice by the director to film from inside the glass that Hamlet pushed Ophelia's face against. I didn't expect that.
One part of Act 3 from the movie that wasn't how I pictured it was how Hamlet threw his mother around and screamed so loudly. I found this a little extreme because it would have been more powerful if Hamlet had been quieter. A quiet anger is much more interesting and much less obnoxious than screaming. I noticed that Hamlet is too melodramatic for almost all his great scenes and soliloquy's. I think that the director chose to use to much drama with Hamlets mother because it would have shown how his misfortune has caused him to be crazy and ambivalent. The throwing of the mother is also too disturbing because Hamlet is not supposed to hurt his mother.
I believe that the director the the play Hamlet took a more dramatic twist to every scene than one can perceive from reading the book. This is extremely obvious in three scenes with the character Hamlet. First, when Hamlet and Ophelia are speaking in the beginning of the act he is being extremely loud, rude and extremely violent with her. Also, in scene where the play "moustrap" is going on Hamlet is obnoxious, crazy and loud throughout the entire play. Also, Hamlet is being extremely physical and violent with his mother in scene four which is not obvious in the play.
The movie in my opinion was a lot more dramatic than i would have imagined the play would be. One scene that i found to be overly dramatic was the "send the to a nunery" scene. I didn't expect Hamlet to throw Ofelia around like he did. In the book I didn't see any evidence that there would be a larbe amount of vigor in Hamlet's speach. But yet again, Shakepeare's plays have very little to no stage directions in them at all. I think that Hamlet gave more direction to the player than Shakespeare gave in the entire play.
i found it interesting how hamlet acts in the movie. To me the way he acts he seems a lot more crazy then i pictured him to be. I expected him to be smarter and i thought he would only act crazy in some spots just to mess with peoples minds but after watching it he seems like hes crazy all the time.
I thought that the movie portrayed a much more violent Hamlet than what I thought was in the book. The way he physically abused Ophilia when they we arguing however, did give that speech a much more significant impact for me. When I am reading the book I just get those bored and tired voices of your 1st period class as the voices in my minds eye and things are much less interesting to me. Hamlet also seemed to have much more pained and crazed character in the book. I am very glad we are watching the movie with reading it because it is really helping me put an image with the confusing wording of Shakespear.
After watching Act 3, I have a better understanding of the play in Act 3. When Hamlet talks about "Honest" and "Beauty," I was not sure what he was refering to as to what he was saying to Ophelia, but through the director choices of having Hamlet acts the way he did, it shows that Hamlet has some hatred toward her although he loves her very much. Through reading the play, it was more confusing because I was not sure what he means by that, and on top of that, there was no emotional indication of his affection toward her comparing to the movie. However, Mr. Schindler has helped explain what it could means by that, but I am still confuse why would Hamlet treat Ophelia the way he did.
~~Mea Pen~~
I think that the movie differed from the play in that Hamlet was much more exaggerated in the movie. He is much more annoying and causes a lot more of a scene in the movie than described in the book. He also looks like he is in a lot more emotional pain in the movie than the book. The way that he talks to himself in the movie sounds a lot more sad than in the book also.
After watching Act III i have a different understanding on the way Hamlet acts while talking to his mother. In the book it just seems like they are sitting somewhere having a discussion. In the movie however he is running all over the place. Another thing that the director does in the movie is makes it more obvious when Hamelt is compairing his father and uncle with the photos to his mother.It also gives a visual of how his father looks like a god and then his uncle looks like scum.
I think the directors choice on displaying Hamlet helped inprove the overall play. Hamlet's overdramatic actions during "the mouse trap" helped promote the course of how the rest of the play would go. He was loud and disruptive showing that he had strong feeling on how things were going about. Overall I think the play has only gotten more interesting because of Hamlet's actions.
After watching Act 3 in the movie i thought the director made most of the scenes with Hamlet really intense. For example during the play when he's badgering Ophelia i did not expect that he would be projecting out so a bunch of people would be subjected to watch he was saying nor when he questioned his mother. Also when he had his one on one with Ophelia i thought that he was a little too rough and somewhat actually a crazy. The director probably made these choices to show that Hamlet is dedicated to the avenging his fathers death thing.
After watching Act 3 enacted on screen it was clear that the director made many choices. The director chose to have Hamlet know that Polonius was hiding. This means that the director believed that many of the things Hamlet said to Ophelia were meant to be heard by Polonius and then be reported back to the king. This changes how we can read what was said to Ophelia. Hamlet may have been intentionally insulting her just to rile up Polonius or acting violent and crazy just to keep up the act.
The director's choice to make the scene in which Hamlet meets with his mother in her room violent and charged was very interesting and a little shocking to me. I definitely thought that Hamlet was angry in the scene, but taking it to the point of physical violence where he throws his mother around the room was a bit much and frankly a little far-fetched. Throughout the whole Act the movie had Hamlet acting extremely crazy and often had him getting very violent, and I feel that it was way overdone.
Act 3 scene 4
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" [There's letters sealed; and my two schoolfellows,
Whom i will trust as i will adders fanged,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery;"
In this quote said by Hamlet, he is being sarcastic and talking about Rosebcrantz and Guildenstern his friends and saying basicaly that he trusts them as much as he would trust a snake with fangs. Saying obviously that he dosent trust them with telling them anything. He knows that they are up to games and that they have been talking to King Claudius and he has been plannin somthing to get Hamlet to leave and go back to school. Hamlet will not fall for what he believes is a fake sort of friendship and will not trust either of them.
I thought it was interesting how the beginning scene with hamlet and Ophelia was portrayed by Branagh. when Hamlet was holding her by the neck and dragging her down the hall opening all of the doors. Branagh insinuated that Hamlet knew he was being watched and caught on rather quickly. i thought it was an interesting thing to have Hamlet do while he was admonishing Ophelia. Otherwise they would have been standing around jawing back and forth. It presented Hamlet as both a little more crazy, but mostly as a lot more cunning than his character sounds in the play.
I thought that it was really interesting the way the director chose to portray Hamlet when he was talking to Ophelia telling her to go to a nunnery. He had Hamlet being very aggressive with her and throwing her against the mirrors and being very rough. When I read the book I was not thinking that this was going on. I dont know exactly what the director was trying to emphasize by doing this.
I think the movie shows more vividly how rediculous Hamlet is. He seems more crazy in the movie because we can actually see him and hear his words at the same time. I like the movie because we get a better picture of what is really going on and it seems more easy to understand.
The director chose to take a completely different perspective on Hamlet than I thought he was going to. For one thing, he took the perspective of the bystanders, not of Hamlet himself. In the book, you can really connect with his emotions and hatred for his stepfather, and the view point is somewhat distributed throughout the characters. However, in Act III of the film, I felt that the director focused more on the perspective of those interacting with Hamlet to give those watching the film the idea that Hamlet is actually insane. In movie I still connected a little like I did when I read Act III with Hamlet but the visuals of him tossing Ophelia and Gertrude around and his angry, shrill screams, not to mention how odd he behaves when he talks to himself in his famous speech.
Molly Riegel
The scene that tuck out the most was the one in the theater. In the book the lines did not seem as life like or forceful. The director of the movie gave them life. The characters were boisterous and full of vigor. Hamlet was angered and the scene itself made more sense than it did in the book.
The idea that Hamlet is truly crazy comes thru in the lines of the book as opposed to the scenes in the movie. I don't see Hamlet's pure insanity in the actor's motions or tone of the movie. More so, his reactions and the big speech to his mother about Claudius and his father was a very human reaction. Putting things into perspective, if my father had just died, I wouldn't be all that sane either. The crazy side of Hamlet comes out when he kills Polonius by accident and sees the ghost of his father again. These are also carried away emotions. It is very easy to guess or predict in the movie what Hamlet will do next because his movements are very strong.
The idea that Hamlet is truly crazy comes thru in the lines of the book as opposed to the scenes in the movie. I don't see Hamlet's pure insanity in the actor's motions or tone of the movie. More so, his reactions and the big speech to his mother about Claudius and his father was a very human reaction. Putting things into perspective, if my father had just died, I wouldn't be all that sane either. The crazy side of Hamlet comes out when he kills Polonius by accident and sees the ghost of his father again. These are also carried away emotions. It is very easy to guess or predict in the movie what Hamlet will do next because his movements are very strong.
I really saw the part of Hamlet with the play playing out entirely different than what was in the movie, where Hamlet up and down the rows and even crashes onto the stage to really say something about how Hamlet acts, another credit to Hamlet's fancies that I saw differently in the book than in the movie was the scene with Claudius and Polonius hiding behind the curtain. Instead of a curtain, a two-way mirror was used and I really worked well, especially with the way Hamlet was now throwing Ophelia around and bashing her into the wall, which I didn't feel was implied in the written play at all
In the movie version of Act III I have a new look at the directors choice to portray the dead King actually in the scene where Hamlet could see him. In this the Queen can not see the ghost however when we see the Ghost through Hamlet's eyes he is clear as day and earlier in the movie when we first saw him, he was portrayed as a ghost by having an image floating above Hamlet and the guards with a light behind the Ghost and the Ghost in full armor. Also the decision of the director for the second time the Ghost appears to have him not in armor and just in a robe is different than I believed in the book. This director's choice has changed my view on the book that now each time the Ghost appears I have the perception that he could have changed outfits oneway or another.
I thought that the director of the play made some very interesting choices on how to portray scene 3. While reading the play I interpreted parts differently and was quite suprised when i saw the movie. One part that stuck out to me was when Hamlet was talking to Ophelia and his mother. He was much more violent than I expected, and he almost seemed posessed. This relates to the quote earlier on in the book when Hamlet talks about how he might act in an anticdisposition. While reading I thought he was crazy but when I saw the movie, there were many violent motions and the director interpreted Hamlet as controlling and you could almost say he manhandled Ophelia and his mother. I see how the director could get his interpretation but I think it was a little too exagerated. It however can be argued that there was "method in his madness."
I loved the scene with all of the mirrors in the grand hall during the argument between Hamlet and Ophelia and his soliloquy that follows. The use of mirrors added another dimension for the scene. Also, I would have never though of using this type of scenery in such a creative way. Lastly, I created a lot of suspense because it seemed as though at any moment Hamlet could choose the door that the king and Polonius were hiding behind, revealing their scheme, and possibly leading to the death of the king.
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