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Today we watched the end of the play. You have sort of taught us to be directors so I’ve decided that I am going to blog about how differently I would have done the last scenes of the play. I think that even though that last parts of the play were meant to be dramatic that they shouldn’t have been “overdone” like they were. I mean when hamlet and Laertes are fighting each other I would have imagined only the people involved to actually be there. I would have put the rest of the cast or people or whatever outside the room spying since that seems to be how everyone is. Everyone is a follower and everyone likes to be a part of something they are not. Spying/ eavesdropping just seem to fit. Gertrude drinks the poison as a toast to Hamlets winning which seems to be played out perfectly in the Branau version. The looks on everyone’s faces were perfect and the emotion was just right.

The two more horrible parts of the end of the movie were the part were that chandelier acted as a wrecking ball. That was just completely too humorous and not right for the play at all. Then when Fortinbras’s army came in it was just funny because they just kind of stepped all over Hamlet and his all of the dead people. The army sort of walks all over all of the emotions that the director spends so long building up and I just think that the entrance and how he went about bringing them back in could have gone differently.

This play was not enjoyable at first. I think it is mostly because in the beginning it was really very hard to understand all of Shakespeare’s different styles and how they all come together. All of the words with many meanings and ideas made it overwhelming at times. I have been re reading the acts from the beginning more because I can now notice more themes and ideas that I could not catch onto before which is cool. I think I like the play more now that I’m reading it more clearly. I think my favorite scene was crazy singing Ophelia swcene because there is so much to analyze and so much is revealed in that scene. I think that the mad/madness theme really shows up clearly at this point. Also, the nunnery scence was great too. I think I just like it because I think Cammily and Reuben are really good at being Hamlet and Ophelia. Haha. When I typed in Cammily’s name it auto corrected to Clammily. Oh my, that’s great.