Act 1 Scene 5 Of Hamlet Essay

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In Act 1 scene 5 of shakespeare’s, Hamlet, the opening scene begin the event directly points out the truth of the King death and marks the beginning of hamlet's revenge. Hamlet has just learned from the ghost of his father that claudius had murdered the former king. Hamlet cruises his mother first Getrude before claudius for marrying someone who killed his dead father. “ O most pernicious woman!” (shakespeare,1.5.105). Hamlet promise his dead king that he will do nothing but seek revenge. “That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!” (Shakespeare, 1.5.108) . Hamlet is saying that you can’t trust anyone. The ones who come to you with similes on their faces might be villains. In this version of Hamlet act one scene five clip shows the dramatic confusion anger hamlet is going throw. in this version of Gregory Doran shows after the ghost leaves, and Hamlet is traumatized, Hamlet says a speech. To make this speech more dramatic, they use a knife. Hamlet pulls apart the knife as he says that will …show more content…
Camera is faced/zoomed on a character to show reaction or and when the character is stating something important Camera angle was placed at Hamlet's level on the ground and looking above to the ghost. For explain, Hamlet and the ghost are never in a similar shot together. Hamlet always looks up to see the ghost and the ghost always looks down to see hamlet. Toward the start, as Hamlet was walking towards the ghost it was a Wide camera point showing the two characters and the surroundings around them, and both of their expressions..Gregory Doran version was a better version for this scene it showed more feeling and dramatic and how the cramer angle are shows all the feeling and their surrounding was

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