To be or not to be?

     The four "to be or not to be" speach was depicted in different ways in the four films that we watched. In the Olivier version the scene was very plain. Not much action exept the waves of the ocean over the side of the castle and him pulling out the dagger. The music was quit until halfway through the speach when he started talking instead of thinking. I would have liked it better if he acually was doing something other than sitting there thinking. Other than that i think it got the scene down pretty good and it kept my attention which is always good.
     Mel Gibson's version of the speach was a differnt take on the original setting. Instead of on the castle the scene was in the catacombs. The scene made sense because he was talking about death were dead people are buried. He also was in a dark setting. He did not use a dagger to show his action, but he used the caskets, lights, and actions to act out the speech. This was my favorite version of the scene because he was very active and not boring. He was moving and acting around and you have to actually watch it instead of the first one because they aren't doing anything.
     In Zeffirelli's version he was talking in to a mirror to himself. He was also being spied on by his two friends just like in the play behind the mirror because it is a two way mirror. I thought that the acting of the scene was boring because he never changed his tone of voice. It was almost like he was reading it from a script. I also could barley hear him and it was kind of boring. I didn't like this version because nothing happened to catch my attention. The concept of talking to himself in the mirror was good but other than that i didn't care for it.
     The Ethan Hawke version was weird but i get the imagery. He was in a Blockbuster walking down the movie isles and was thinking the speech for most of it. There was also a TV in the back with fire in it, just like in the ghost scene, which is like the fires from hell. He is also was walking down the action isles but never took anything. Get it, he didn't take action ! I get the idea of the movie, but i still don't like it because it is just weird to do a modern Hamlet.  And the Arnold Schwarzenegger version was what Shakespeare had in mind.