... may be changed according to the interpretations of directors, actors and audience. Shakespeare's plays are always open to interpretation; this is seen clearly through several movie versions of his famous play Hamlet. In Franco Zeffirelli's 1991 and Kenneth Branagh's 1996 film version of "Hamlet," we can see that the portrayal ... Zeffirelli's version, the ghost is portrayed as being weak and more human-like. The ghost's sitting position implies that it means no harm. Hamlet feels sympathy instead of fear for the ghost which drives him to avenge his father's death. Branagh stays true the ...

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... Zeffirelli directed and the PBS movie. They were both very interesting interpretations of the play written by William Shakespeare. It was fascinating because both were the same play but were clearly very different. In the Zeffirelli version, Mel Gibson played a very good Hamlet. The scene where he confronts Ophelia and tells her that he ... does not love her particularly moved me. I think that it showed one very good interpretation of Hamlet, that Hamlet really did love Ophelia but was really hiding it because he knew that King Claudius and Polonius were listening in on their conversati...

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