The film version starts out with the morbid funeral of Hamlet, the deceased king of Denmark. Joining fellow mourners was Hamlet's son, Hamlet and Gertrude, Hamlet Sr.'s former wife. This conflicts with the play for the first scene shows the ghost of the king while the guards keep watch. In the film, we do not see this scene for a good fifteen to twenty minutes or so. And when the apparition does show up, it is all in one night where Hamlet is present the first time we see the ghost. To keep an audience at a movie, you must follow some sort of flow that keeps the audience in their seats. I see how the ghost could have been the first seen, but it does not give any time to develop the sorrow Hamlet felt after the lost of his father.

In the play, the reason for Hamlets moping around is not clearly defined by his father's death being the main cause. In the movie, we see Hamlet's a

One part that I found not to be really necessary in the play version was the whole Norway parallel. As it turns out, it was cut from the movie version, mainly because it was excess story that didn't need to be told. The end of the play, Fortibras comes into the castle and after hearing Horatio's explanation, claims Denmark for himself since he is the only royalty left for miles. The movie simply ends with Hamlet and Leartes reconciling their differences, and Hamlet saying farewell to his mother. Fortinbras was not in the picture during the movie, so it would have been awkward to write him into the end.

nger/depression in stages. First it is his father's death. Then it is the fact that his mother and Claudius, Hamlet's uncle married so quickly. Next there was the implication of evil doing by Claudius. Finally comes the death of Ophelia, Hamlet's love interest in the story. In the play version, we start the story with some flashback, but most of these events have happened already. This follows

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