Branagh's the Best

My favorite film version of Hamlet is by Ken Branagh. Branagh's version was more dramatic and it is the play verbatim. I believe that Shakespeare would want his plays acted out the way they were written and Branagh's version of Hamlet is as close as you will get to the play. It starts how the play starts with the ghost scene and it does not show the ghost's face which makes it difficult to determine if the ghost is actually King Hamlet. Branagh's version depicts Hamlet wearing black which displays his sorrow in everyone's joy. The mood and setting of the hall changes as Hamlet gets ready to deliver his first soliloquy. The hall goes from bright to dull within a matter of seconds. Hamlet delivers his soliloquy with great anger and hostility. He says the famous line "frailty thy name is woman" with agony. Branagh added dynamics and stress to Hamlet's voice every time he mentioned his mother's disloyalty to his father.