Kenneth Branagh's Soliloquy

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A soliloquy in Hamlet is perhaps one of the most famous Shakespeare soliloquies and it is the ‘To Be or Not To Be’. Throughout the soliloquy hamlet is contemplating suicide and life and death. Hamlet talks about how death would bring sleep and that sleep would be nice but is afraid that death might also bring bad dreams of the things he wants to escape from. From three different actors and producers we compare the ‘To Be or Not To Be’ scene to see which one was the best portrayal of the scene. I think that Kenneth Branagh did the best at presenting the scene as it was more visually appealing thanks to the camera work, staged scene, and how the actor was made to speak. A camera angle is what impacts and enhances a scene. In kenneth Branagh’s scene the camera is shot right over the actor's shoulder not being too close or too far from the actor and when the actor moves over to look and walk toward the mirror in the room you get to see two views of him one by his head and the other a full body of him walking slowly toward the mirror. …show more content…
With your eyes you will decide if a movie is good or not and i say that the scene pulled off in the ‘To Be or Not To Be’ by Kenneth Branagh really grabs your eyes. The scene made you want to watched close as the actor portraying hamlet was in a ballroom of mirrors walking toward one, and how that one mirror behind it held the one person that made hamlet isolated, and how he is the very one hamlet wants to take action against. This scene i believe was the most accurately depicted as it was in the book and for the other scene’s made by the other producers was not so much. I have to say the scene made by laurence olivier was truly the most boring of the three when the actor playing hamlet walked into a dark empty hallway and leaned up against a wall for the entire soliloquy. You could not feel any excitement from that scene at
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