Eulogy for ophellia from gertrude

          Ophelia was a strong young woman with many bumps in her road. She has been through something’s that no women should go through. I didn’t only see her as a girl my son dated, but as a friend. Friends go through ups and down, and we have been through many ups and downs. Toward the end of her beautiful life Ophelia became mad. She was talking to walls and spirits that weren’t even there. She was singing ludicrous songs and passages. Everyone could see what was going on with her but no one wanted to admit it.
          But in retrospect was it us who were really insane. I mean my son did kill her father. And were going through one of the toughest times in Denmark’s history. Maybe for Ophelia this was her escape, her sort of way out. It was selfish of me to interfere with her madness. She was my friend and I didn’t want to see her suffer any more. So down by the river I had a choice to make, Should I let a dear friend suffer or should I take her away from her pain. I KILLED OPHELLIA. But not out of spite or lust or hatred but because I loved she and I didn’t want her to suffer anymore.

I think the reason i find Branagh's rendition of this soliloquy so good is that he delivers it from a standpoint of power. It seems like everyone else's 'To be, or not to be' is projected from this place of defeat and anguish. I think K. Branagh played Hamlet most like the text intended; a man with the newfound power of having a distinct mission of revenge and nothing to lose. The setting is sort of lone and not so dark. It sets a powerful mood.
The Mel Gibson version in my opinion is probally the worst one. He tries to put his heart in to it but he comes out looking like a homeless asshole. When we read that speech in class and even the whole story of hamlet i invission him as a well kept young man with a new found interest in life or death. Mel gibson is sort of portraying hamlet as raggedy man with crazy ambitions.

hamlet

In my opinion i think each actor portrays hamlet in a diffrent way. in the metl gibson version we see hamlet as emotional but not so gloomy and suddle aposed to the branugh version tro were hamlet is just this emotional quote on quote "emo" kid who cries over everything. The music is not as prominent in the gibson and modern version as it is in the branugh. The music adds to the drama and actually plays more of a role in that than it does in the other two.

In my opinion if i was recreating this scene i would actually use the technique of useing music. it really is dramatic but it adds a nice spice to the whole thing. And music in any dramitic scene such as this video.
and it really shows how much this author uses the senses.

in conclusion just rember what you think is lame or wack may actually move anther person in a diffrent way