Hamlet Ghost Scene

   Although Hamlet has only one text, the play can be interpreted in many ways. People such as directors can have their own different opinion about what Shakespeare intended. The director Michael Almereyda had created a more modern version to this play. The director kept the same language and structure that the play was written but he added more modern props to the movie. For example, when Hamlet was talking to the ghost, in the background there was a T.V. that was on showing a volcanoe exploding and huge waves crashing against rocks. Even though I'm not sure what exactly the director was trying to convey, I can infer that he was trying to show how purgatory actually is and what the ghost is currently enduring.

In my opinion, I don't like how the version made by Almereyda is modern along with the language and word usage spoken in the play. A much more older version created by Zeffirelli or Branagha are the best for this play. The scenes and setting are much more appropriate.