The Ghost Scene of Hamlet Branagh, Zeffirelli, Almereyda

      After watching all three different ghost scenes from the movie Hamlet, there are obvious differences that take place. In the first ghost scene we watched [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/] by Branagh it was extremely dramatic and loud with music to add to all the dramatic and suspensefulness, whereas the Zeffirelli http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/ version and the more modern Almereyda http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171359/ where a bit more believable and less dramatic, more calming. In the Branagh version the actor seemed more angered but frightend, all of the actors seem frightend during the scene. The ghost that actually played was also different during each of the scenes. In the more modern Almereyda version the ghost seem more of a ghost because you could see the transparentess of the ghost, he talked in a soothing way whereas the Branagh version was speaking quickly and loud voice. Both the Zeffirelli and Almereyda they were more calm speaking to Hamlet. The big difference in the Almereyda was that the ghost actually touched and hugged Hamlet, and showed more affection that you could see. The Branagh version took place in the woods with no one really around. The other too scenes during the ghost were different Zeffirelli viewing was underground and Almereyda took place on a balcony in a hotel. The music also had a large role in the feel of the movies with the 1996 version being loud and the 1990 and 2000 version more calming where you can really make out what the actors are saying.
    To add to how the scene was showed in the Branagh the lighting was really dark and you could see smoke or fog adding to the dramatic feel of the ghost scene, it was dark and mysterous. The Zeffirelli scene was also dark, the Alemeryda version was way  more light with the father being inside the son's house with more light. The flashbacks in the Branagh version actually showed of how the father was being killed, where as the Zeffirelli version didn't really cut back to flashbacks of showing what really happend. A good use of props were used in the Almereyda version. I think the choices used in the Branagh version was too dramatic to make it real and in the Almereyda version it was way more realistic. The visual elements in each scene where different the Branagh version showed flashbacks of what happened to the father but I think it was less believeable. The Zeffirelli seemed more believable as it showed the emotion in Hamlet knowing everything about his father from what it was told. The Almereyda version there didn't seem to be much use in the emotion displayed off of Hamlet.
Even though the same scene is displayed in each version there are numerous difference.