Thou Art Gertrude

My knight in shining armour Claudius.

Please know that you are everything thy wants.

You were sent from an angel to help thy.

The feeling that thy makes me feel haunts me.

Your love is everlasting like the sun.

My son carries the hatred of a beast.

His stubborn heart beats for revenge of thy.

Thy dearest Polonius is frightened.

The madness that doths upon my son is blood.

His father lives beneath his burning soul.

Thy hatred is a dagger through my heart.

Please don't let my son affect our love.

For you are the wind beneath my gay heart.

Hamlet will quietly fade away from hate.

Claudius, my noble king, I love thee.

Mike Almereyda is the winner!

Hamlet, a Shakespearean play, has been performed and changed around for generation after generation. Quiet a few versions of Hamlet have been created in a film, which gives new meaning to the play. Mike Almereyda directed the most interesting version of a movie Hamlet. Different from other filmmakers, Almereyda made this film the modern version of Hamlet. I enjoyed this version, not only because of the modern twist, but also because of the way the director incorporates the language of the past with a modern day setting.

In Act I, the one scene that catches my eye the most is Hamlet's first soliloquy. Almereyda has his Hamlet have his words through thoughts. Every other version has the soliloquy in plain words, which are awkwardly said while Hamlet is alone. In the modern day film, Hamlet is reflecting on his past, with clips of his father and Ophelia. I feel that his soliloquy has more meaning when its being expressed through thoughts because he truly misses his father, while viewers start to understand his hatred for his mother. He also sees clips of his "girlfriend" Ophelia, which the director goes back to show her sitting alone at a fountain waiting for Hamlet. In every other version, including the play, readers, viewers, or listeners only see Hamlet alone, which takes away from the intensity of his soliloquy.