The first one I watched was by Franco Zeffirelli. Zeffirelli is well known for making Shakespeare plays into movies and making them very accurate to the play. This case was not an exception, Zeffirelli made his version of Hamlet very accurately. He made it in the right period of time, and he rarely missed a scene. Although one part of the play that was missing was the whole story about Fortinbras. The beginning was also different from the play. In the movie, he began with a funeral for King Hamlet, as opposed to the guards seeing King Hamlet’s ghost. I think the way Zeffirelli made the movie very accurate to Hamlet was the way he made set look so much like it should in th

The second version of Hamlet that I watched was directed by Kenneth Branagh. This movie did a great job at actually telling the story of Hamlet. Branagh made the story very easy to understand by the way he directed it. While a character was describing something, or telling a story about something, you would actually see it going on so you could understand it more. I really liked that. It helped to keep the story moving and to lighten it a little. Sometimes it is hard to concentrate on what the characters are saying because of how the play is worded, so I really enjoyed seeing that. This version of the play was completely accurate, right down to all the lines. They showed every scene and included every line that is in the original Hamlet. Although the scenes were accurate, the time period used was not. This Hamlet seemed to be taken place in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The clothing used was a lot modern then it should have been. There were many times that I saw things that could never have been in the original Hamlet. These things included a train, photographs, and electricity. Although it was not accurate to the play, I enjoyed the modernization of it bec

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