Thursday, 18 September 2014

Review of movie : 'Hamlet'





Hamlet (1996 Film)

                               By Kenneth Branagh


Review of movie : 'Hamlet'


Hamlet movie by Kenneth Branagh



Respected Sir
                     
                   First of all I want to thank you about this movie screening of ‘Hamlet’ Movie that these movie or audio visual things affect more than any work of text. First of all I want to say that personally I don’t like movies or any TV Shows or serials because I prefers any book or written text more than any movie works but my aspect of this thing is totally changed after this movie screening and I realise one thing that movie or any audio visual thing also can effect same as textual work but only thing is that how this movie is related with real text or how movie is as powerful as real text or how much this movie is authentic to this text. 


                 But I want to say that this movie version of ‘Hamlet’  by Kenneth Branagh  is very authentic to real text and after watching this movie I want to say one thing that


“ Text gives us freedom to imagine whatever we want to imagine, but movie or audio visual thing bound our imagination into box only because of this thing that they gives related picture to situation.”


But one more thing is there that our pictures or imagination gets pure outcome or perfection in movie or audio visual thing and our idea or situation is more understandable  or more clear than earlier they are. And after this experience I want to experience this thing again that’s why I read real text of  Frankenstein and then I watched movie based on Frankenstein that is  Mary Shelley's Frankenste in 1994  and after that I realise or experience one thing that when I read word ‘Monster’ that time I imagine so many faces of monsters and when I watched movie that time I realise that here in this movie monster is so innocent like newly born baby and he has no knowledge or doesn’t know anything about this world so after watching this movie this picture of 'Monster' is more clear in my mind from the perspective of this novel. So after this experience I can say that this movies or audio visual things also ca helps us for understanding of text but the only equation is that how much this movies are authentic to real works or text otherwise it’s creates hurdles or problems to understand the real works or real text.

                  Now I want to say that I enjoyed a lot this movie ‘Hamlet’ by Kenneth Branagh and I want to say that this movie is authentic version of the play Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare.


                Here I try to pick out some points from this movie and those points are like this I given below :-


1.    First of all I want to say that this movie is very authentic one to the real play of ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare because in this movie director of this movie Kenneth Branagh  follows all the scene and sequence of the real play and cause and effects does his work as like a chain of plot. As in the real play sequence is followed same as the movie sequence is followed by director and I want to like give you example that


Ex:- In the play by William Shakespeare play begins with the apparition of Ghost  and in the movie also start with the apparition of the Ghost. So, we can say that this movie is authentic version of the real play of William Shakespeare.


But I also want to say that in this movie Kenneth Branagh  changes the setting of the movie because in movie there is no setting of 11th centuries setting and clothes of character is also differs then real play.


 

2.  Yes, when I watched this movie my thoughts about the female character of this play who is Ophelia is changed in some of the ideas that before this movie I don’t understand this character as I understand her character after watching this movie because I realise that Ophelia is a victimized character of this play.

 

3.  Yes, I feel ‘aesthetic delight’  when I watched this movie in the very beginning part of the movie I feel delight when Ghost is appear and at the end of this movie I feel aesthetic delight because of end of the tragedy and poetic justice  by the writer at the end.


4.  Yes, I feel ‘catharsis’ in this movie at the beginning of the play when Price Hamlet speaks his first soliloquy and whenever he bourns out his anger, second time when he angry on Ophelia and last when this play is end and no one is alive everyone is dead  at that time I feel catharsis.


5.   Yes, screening of movie is helps me a lot in better understanding of the play as I said above that that our pictures or imagination gets pure outcome or perfection in movie or audio visual thing and our idea or situation is more understandable or more clear than earlier they are. After this movie screening I realise one thing that movie or any audio visual thing also can effect same as textual work but only thing is that how this movie is related with real text or how movie is as powerful as real text or how much this movie is authentic to this text.


6.   There are so many scenes or moment in the movie that I will cherish lifetime. Example like Nunnery scene, first soliloquy of prince Hamlet, bed chamber scene of price Hamlet and his mother when Hamlet treats his mother very rudely and with cruelty, grave digging scene of Ophelia, and last scene when prince Hamlet is died. I want to cherish this all the scenes life time.


7.   If I got chance to direct this movie ‘Hamlet’ I would like to change character of Ophelia and I don’t characterised her character as victim of male domestic society, I portrait her character as strong as Hamlet’s character and I remove some of the boring parts of this movie who is not important in this movie as per my aspect.


8.  In the beginning of the movie, camera rolls over the statue of King Hamlet outside the Elsinore castle. The movie ends with the similar sequence wherein the statue of the King Hamlet is hammered down to the dust. It is the symbol of circle of life that anything is starting with thing that thing also end with same thing this is call circle of life or nature. In this movie also movie start with the statue of king Hamlet and also end with that between this time movie work throughout the story and story starts and ends with same kind. We also have to do is joining the dots between this circle or starting or ending.


9.   While studying the play through movie, I think that from my aspect psychological approach is more appropriate than any other because I think that this play is all about “Madness of Prince Hamlet” and about the question of killing his self or committing suicide that famous quote that “To be or not to be, that is the question”  so from my aspect this psychological approach is more appropriate than any other approaches.


10.                    I think that there is this approach Textual Analysis is more appropriate than any other approaches in this Pre-viewing task because this is all about understanding of text so I think that in this Pre-viewing task this approach Textual Analysis  is more appropriate or appeals more than any other approaches.



                  Thank you sir for this beautiful Movie Screening of ‘Hamlet’ movie by Kenneth Branagh, Based on William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. We enjoyed a lot and got new experience  of teaching – learning process with the help of audio visual things.

 

                                      Thank You ....


                                         

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