Crazy Family: Bennets V. Hamlets

Bennets:

In the Bennet family the marriage itself is dysfunctional with neither parent truly supporting each other. The disagreement within the marriage promotes the daughters to disrespect the authority of one of the two parents. (collins marriage) 

Hamlet Direction - Zach & Danny - Sexy Time Scene

Act III, Scene II : Lines 63-83

At the beginning of the scene Ophelia should be turned away from Hamlet showing her rejection of his romance. Hamlet is alluding to his sexual desires for Ophelia in slow advanced as not to turn her away, his movements should be slow and encroaching upon her. The 2nd line should be like the movement. On line 66 Ophelia will look up from her feet abruptly, but walk away from without looking at him slowly and ghostly, a light escape. He is frustrated that he can't get access to the sanctuary in line 67 and is being extremely blunt. As it continues his getting extremely frustrated, while he still remains seductive and Hamlet encroaches further upon Ophelia, and even she is not looking at Hamlet she reacts to his movement uncomfortably and moves again quickly away from him. In line 71 Hamlet is suggesting that Ophelia has the same intimate thoughts that he has and suggests increasingly dirty diplomacy. He is trying to get her to think less logically and more carelessly, telling her to think of the pleasure the orgasm will bring to her. Because she is a virgin the newly minted action will be useful to her, a re-birth. Secretly he is trying to bring her into sin.

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Hamlet

Hamlet is have a battle of conscious and must act with intent but at the same time is questioning his actions. He should show a sense of thought about what he is about to do and should be truely analyzing the consequences of his actions. Hamlet should be sly and should not talk to maliciously. 

Dear Doc - Hamlet

Dear Dr. Forman,

I was excited at the ability to write about lighting in some fashion. After watching the videos I chose were ones I felt I hated yet liked with enough specific elements where I had strong feelings about the choices made. Originally I was playing to cover set, lighting, costumes, and sound, as they all tend to be highly interconnected. Soon I realized that if I tried to Wright that much I would end up covering an insufficient amount of each topic. I also found that steering away from using tech lingo was important as it would either be way over the readers head or take too long to explain.

Sincerely,

Zachary

Hamlet Essay - Conclusion

In both versions of Hamlet, lighting attempts to extenuate the feelings of characters, making the audience become one with these feelings. The key balance between utilization of lighting to highlight key symbolic objects or moments and the creating mood without distracting from the action of the scene, presents itself as a problem in both versions of the movie. Hamlet, a play where simplistic appearances of characters clash with their complex intentions, commands a designer to engaging in the struggle for simplistic complexity.

Hamlet Essay - Body Paragraph 3

By combining the methods used in the two movies a director would achieve a much better result with lighting. By drawing the color pallet and intensities used in Zeffireli version the director would achieve a depressed and darkened mood that is extenuated from the characters’ feelings and opinions without being too bright. The dull tones of grays and whites and blacks will prove extremely successful in bringing the audience into the current atmosphere and set a somber tone within the space. Also, by replacing the lack of illumination of actors with a sufficient amount of illumination, making the actors visible, while maintaining the darker tone of the scene. Also, by replacing the extensive use of highlighting symbolic items with the unobtrusive lighting to set mood shown in the Almereyda’s version, retain the focus on the actors and the message they convey through their lines without the flashing arrows proclaiming, “symbol here” that highlighting this symbols provide.

Hamlet Essay Introduction

Bright and dark, warm and cool, these elements of lighting play a pivotal role in movies, manipulating the subconscious mind of the viewer into believing the fantasy of the director. Hamlet demands the best of a designer, the ability to create a space bright enough for camera but brining the darkness and gloomy air into the theatre and illuminating the minds of the audience to the subconscious messages of the play. In Zeffireli and Almereyda version of Hamlet the designers must balance the complex demands of lighting a show with a meaning that is difficult to over emphasize with the importance to minimize distractions to the audience, a challenge neither designer fully succeeds in alone.