The way an actor displays the emotions of the character has a huge impact on the way the scene is carried out. The actor in the case of Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branagh manages to display the character's emotions as well as its feelings through body language, also the way the actor interacts with his surroundings. The first frame we see a very huge ceiling with Hamlet, but the ratio of size is very different, the ceiling being about five times bigger than the actor. Branagh did this to show the impotence of Hamlet when facing the problems and also the feeling of being lost and inferior. Following this frame, Hamlet appears in a crouched position, facing the ground and kneeling on the chairs, showing him as troubled by something. The way his body is placed shows the viewer that Hamlet is sad about something because he is looking downwards, in addition by placing him with his weight supported by the chairs he is seen as weak. The soliloquy that Hamlet says, shows how he feels about the marriage between her mother and his uncle and the fact that his mother had so soon forgoten his father and replaced him with another man. The emotions portrayed by the actor are parallel to the words being spoken by him, both talking about sadness, the awful feeling of a loss as huge as a father, and the impotence of him having no power over his mother's decision.
The interpretation of Hamlet done by Tennant, Stewart, and Downie shows a different soliloquy than the one done by Branagh, but the same aspects to communicate the emotions of the characters to the audience are clear. The first action that the actor takes is to got to disable the camera, rushing quickly towards it, climbing up and damaging it. In the way this is done by this actor it shows the desperation to get this done because after doing this act he throws the camera away and procedes to sit down. This throwing of the object shows that there is anger present in Hamlet's heart in that moment, destroying the control over him done by the camera. There is also a moment later in the clip where the position of the body shows all that the character wants to express in this scene, which is vegeance. When he screams this word, the position of joining hands and pulling them up, more like a position of someone about to hit a persons head, shows the need to transmit this vengeance into acts. The words spoken throughout this soliloqoy are also defiant and he is talikng about a villan which he wants to take vengeance upon. The actions taken with the surroundings show how the villan is constantly looking upon Hamlet through the camera and his action of destroying it demostrates the audience the need to stop this villans acts as well as the striking pose taken upon the saying of the word vengeance. These visual effects used by the directors show the emotional side of the characters, but this environment created not only transmits the message to the viewer but it also draws him into wanting to see more of the piece.
The two clips of Hamlet I found to be very interesting because they managed to transmit the emotions of the character and the atmosphere they are in, hooking the reader to the clip in a very effective way. The opening scene of a clip or a movie is the most important part, or the part where the director tries to show an image that will most likely capture or cultivate the viewer's interest, making him thirsty for more of the movie. I am not a movie critic or have any license in films, but I know, like most of the public, that when a movie starts off in a bad way then it won't probably be the best movie. If I enter a comedy film then I expect moments when I laugh, after seeing fifteen to twenty minutes of it and not a single laugh of myself or the audience I start to doubt the quality of the movie. I hate movies that don't strive to grab the viewers attention because sometimes the effect is people walking out of the movie, doing it myself in occasions where the movie is incredibly boring.
