Hamlet - To be or not to be...

It was an interesting interpretation, but I wish he had spoken with a little more clarity.

if you dont like how they've done it their way then don't watch it. what if this is the way shakespeares origanlly wanted it but someone went and changed it after he died or whatever. what if youre respecting someone elses work?

This sounds like any old high school student, mumbling the words along. Branagh actually, y'know, interprets the words with his speech.

oooooh nice! someone who KNOW'S there hamlet! :)

A theatre professor pointed out that Hamlet, in this performance, walks down the action isle but doesn't take one. This scene shows Hamlet's unwillingness to choose a course of action while performing the soliloquy.

I love it. He walks down the ACTION isle. GORGEOUS!

any to be or not to be scene is better than this scene, he does not play the mad act very well as he should, and this makes me hate this

Everyone interprets all Shakespeare differently. This is just showing how the director and the actor view this soliloquy. They didn't view it as a mad scene, they viewed it as a turning point, and a realization. That's the beautiful thing about Shakespeare. No matter who you ask, there will ALWAYS be someone who sees it differently.

I'd say about 90 percent of Shakespeare scholars would say that he is judging from the first line.

Probably, that is the most common interpretation. As I see it: maby he does not, maby he is just thinking about the strange ways of life and the mystery of death. He might be confused and doubtful. Nobody knows.