Hamlet in Modern Court

In the original Hamlet, old Hamlet is killed by his own brother and now young Hamlet makes a plot to revenge Claudius. In my opinion, my Hamlet is going to be in the modern world and he will be the son of a powerful corporate officer. It sounds very similar to the movie we recently watched, but this is going to be a court trial scenario. In my version of Hamlet, he is an adult who recently lost his father. His uncle takes the wealth of his father because a majority of people think the uncle was more mature and better able to help the corporation to thrive since he is older than Hamlet. Hamlet finds out that his father left a note for him. The note had only one sentence: “Check the camera”. Hamlet sees the footage of his uncle shooting a pistol with a silencer at Hamlet’s father. He is shocked because Claudius made up a story about Hamlet’s father being killed by a poor person. It was outrageous since brother murdered his own family because he was blind by the wealth that Hamlet’s father had. Hamlet decides to take revenge on Claudius by staying quiet at first in order to make Claudius feel as if he got away with the murder and then, in the middle of the court trial between Old Hamlet’s company and its rival company, Hamlet will show up with the video footage and show how Old Hamlet actually died. The reason why Hamlet stayed quiet was too make him attention to him go away from him. And then he will start his revenge by appearing in the court between the fight between Claudius and its rival company. He will then reveal the video footage of Claudius shooting his brother and spread the truth through court and its television program.

Hamlets in Different World

So I have chosen two of Hamlet’s Soliloquy videos, and they show a different ways that different Hamlets orated the “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. It was very interesting because I thought they were completely different people. The first video is David Tennant. In this video he looks extremely desperate and full of hate. Every minute he speaks, it shows that he is in pain and having a backstabbing feeling. As the clip ends it looks like his mind is beginning to fill with anger and revenge.

The second video shows Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet. As he enters the lobby he directly goes to the mirror and starts his soliloquy. It shows that he is talking to himself. This shows that maybe he is commanding to himself. This Hamlet doesn’t show any grief or sadness, but it shows the determination and eagerness.

The difference between these videos is that hamlet acts differently. The first hamlet acts desperate and powerless, but the second Hamlet shows willingness to take revenge. Also, the first Hamlet was talking in the room alone while the second Hamlet was watched by Claudius and Voldemort (I think) and talked without being feared. Still it shows that both Hamlets are ready to do some revenge on Claudius.