Sunday, November 30, 2008

Book VS. Movie


Well to my surprise watching Hamlet the movie only encouraged my interpretations, although Hamlet was nothing like i had imagined him to look like. I didnt picture him hanving fake platinum blonde hair, or the old King Hamlet with neon blue eyes. Rather then that i think it was a pretty accurate depiction of the play. It's difficult sometimes to understand a play especially when it shakespeare. So when i saw the movie alot of things i had earlier thought was confusing had made alot more sense. Aother reason i thought it depicted the play well was that it had the whole entire script and characters in the play instead of cutting major parts out to make the movie shorter. The movie was a staggering four hours long but i got to see every single scene in the play. All of the dialect in the movie came direcly from the play. Overall i think it was a well made movie and it only encourages interpretations.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Hamlet



As time went on I was beginning to understand what's going on and I'm starting to enjoy Hamlet. I never thought that i would get sucked into a play so old, especially in the way it's written. I found out that i absorb the text more when I find key quotes to understand the plot, and the rest is poetry to depict their feelings. It is still sometimes difficult to understand what is going on so I've learned to read more carefully then I typically would. I'm not saying that once class is over that I'm going to read Shakespeare all the time but I've come to respect his work. So far it's had drama, suspense, romance and tragedy. I can understand why around 450 years ago people were just awestruck and amazed at these plays.