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Numerous directors have produced movies based on what some consider to be the best work of literature of all time, Hamlet. Both Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh have produced their version of the play, Hamlet. After seeing both of the movies and comparing them to the context of the play, Kenneth Branagh's version was superior to Zeffirelli's because it is a more accurate representation to Shakespeare's original version of the play. Franco Zeffirelli's film was considerably different from the play that William Shakespeare produced. He trimmed dialogue from various parts of the play and replaced it in a different context. For example, in the first scene Zeffirelli has a wake for Hamlet's father, which does not exist in Shakespeare's original Hamlet. Instead of having this wake for Hamlet's father, Zeffirelli should have focused on enacting the original first scene of Shakespeare's play. Zeffirelli cut out the part when Old Hamlet is talking to Hamlet about how Claudius killed him and how he must get revenge in the first scene. This is where the whole story develops and what it is primarily about. The revenge Hamlet is ordered to seek is what the rest of the play is about and without this beginning scene in Zeffirelli's
s by having Claudius and Hamlet sharing the same hair color, nearly white, so that they can be more than just uncle and nephew, but father and son. a dumb show and then the king got mad. It should have included that first and still had a whole play, in which special lines inserted by Hamlet were to be read. The way Zeffirelli presented it did not have a dramatic affect because of the way the plot was presented, version the plot was not as concrete from the beginning. Furthermore, Zeffirelli compressed the dumb-play and play for the king and court. In his movie it consisted of primarily just! Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet is more superior to Franco Zeffirelli's version because he uses more vivid imagery and most importantly, an uncut version of Shakespeare's original play. In Branagh's version scenes are not rearranged and characters are not left out, witch gives a more accurate representation of Shakespeare's version to the play. Most importantly, Hamlet soliloquies are not cut in Branagh's version so that the audience can see the depths of Hamlets character. Zeffirelli is insulting the greatest author of all time by changing his play, where as Branagh is uplifting Shakespeare by producing a wonderful movie of Shakespeare's greatest work, Hamlet. Moreover, Zeffirelli's version of Hamlet is almost
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