In the movie, Gibson’s hero deliberates on sense of life in general rather than on the death of his father. The revenge tragedy traditionally focuses on the murder of a close friend or a relative followed by the revenge. There is a certain discrepancy in the way Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Gibson’s hero unveil the tragic style of the play. In the play, this monologue could be interpreted as a desperate call because Hamlet is not confident about his decision, whereas Hamlet in the film seems to know the answer to this eternal question.

The explicit and superficial depiction is particularly represented in the famous monologue of Hamlet that Gibson’s hero pronounces with calmness: “To be, or not to be, that is the question:”/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The siblings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/or to take arms against a see of troubles” (Shakespeare, Act III, Scene 1, lines 63-65). Unlike Shakespeare’s representation of Hamlet in the play, Mel Gibson is presented less expressive, yet depressed and discouraged by her mother and his uncle, who are suspected in his father’s murder. The close relation between Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Zeffirelli’s version of Danish Prince is still distinguished by depressed mood, extreme violence, and unexpressive representation of scenes. Despite different contextual feeling, Gibson manages to interact with other characters, as well as how reflect the atmosphere of the scenes directed by film director Franco Zeffirelli. The actor has managed to render the emotions, atmosphere, and experienced endured by the Danish Prince.

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