The Similarities and Differences between Two Movies of the Play Hamlet

William Shakespeare's Hamlet has been remade a number of times in film and in plays. I recently watched two movies of Hamlet directed by different people. The directors add little things to make it their own interpretation of the play Hamlet. Some directors like to emphasize different scenes for instance. The Hamlet movies that I watched were one directed by Kenneth Branagh, and one by Franco Zeffirelli. The directors in each of these had their own way of telling the story of Hamlet.
The first one I watched was by Franco Zeffirelli. Zeffirelli is well known for making Shakespeare plays into movies and making them very accurate to the play. …