![]() ![]() I believe Zeffirelli’s intention was to emphasize how she is already moving onto her new husband-to-be. In the same scene in which Gertrude is bent over her late husband’s body, she looks up to Claudius, which seems quite striking. ![]() In this scene Claudius’ speech only briefly tells Hamlet to consider him his father. ![]() Instead it begins with an original scene of Claudius, Gertrude and Hamlet are mourning the old King’s death at a funeral. By doing this Zeffirell was able to cut down the length of the film while still including the scene that is the catalyst in which Hamlet decides to prove the murder of his father and seek out revenge on his Uncle. I can understand why he did this, since it wasn’t entirely necessary to have multiple scenes with the ghost being encountered. Instead the film skipped the first ghost sighting, to Hamlet being told of the events and then going to the watchtowers himself. One of the most obvious differences between Zeffirelli’s Hamlet and the original play is that the opening scene at the guard tower is entirely omitted in the film. ![]()
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