To be or not to be...

In the Laurence Olivier version of the play he is near an ocean sitting on a rock. Hamlet does have props in this version and he protrayed the mood well. He used the prop (the dagger) well when he was sitting on the rock, he stated that he could just end it all with this daggger and then held it. In this version there was no music and I didn't like the fact that he fell sort of when he was giving the speech to show that he was immagining what would happen and that he is in a trance. In this version like the others his head is the main focus which is beleive is to symbolize what he is thinking and that he is fighting with what is right verses what is wrong. There is no emotion in this version although the way the actor dilvers the speech is sort of gloomy.
In the Zeffirelli verson, Hamlet is in the caticombs, where people would be burried during his time. The irnoy of this is that he is surrounded by death and he is thinking about ending it all, and killing himself. He went down here to get a feel of the dead to get a chance to see what it would be like if he would just be one of them and kill himself. There is no music, but there is no need for it since he is surrounded with death and he is in a gloomgy background already. The lighting that is used hits his face to give it a pale apperence, to make Hamlet look deadlike. This is very important to his speech since it symoblizes what he is talking about.
In Branaugh's Hamlet, Hamlet is talking to himself in the mirrior. This shows that he has a split personality, one wants to end it all while the other is unsure. Also since there are people behind the one way mirror and he is pointing a dagger at it, this might forshadow what will happen to the people behind the mirror soon. There is no music but the mood of Hamlet is not gloomy but angery, he is angery with his life and yet he doesn't want to end it.
Almereyda's Hamlet is the modern version of hamlet. Hamlet is walking though a video store when he passes though the action section and sees fire on the screen of the T.V's in there. The fire is supposed to symbolize self dystrauction along with hell, if he kills himself surly he will go to hell but he will also b dystraong himself. In this version he is also wearing a hat, maybe to bring attention to his head like how in the other ones he was either touching his head or pointing to it. The music in the background is very faint but it sets the mood of sadness and anger along with dispair.
There are many versions of the play beacuse everyone interperts the play diffrently. The directers each want their audience to view the play though their eyes.