I am not a huge fan of the way Kenneth Baranagh stares directly at the audience. I know thats how he does it in the play sometimes, but I don't like it on the film. It feels a little to dramatized. I think I would like it a lot more if he would just talk to himself.
I agree. Normally when he is staring into the depths of our souls, I look away or close my eyes and just listen to the words he is saying while envisioning him pacing the room he is in or something of that nature.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with both of yall. His soliloquies tend to make me feel uncomfortable, and sometimes they even come across as forced and unnatural. I think they might be more effective if he was pacing around or acting more casual about it. They don't really seem like he is talking to himself either, which was probably Shakespeare's original purpose.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think it was just a cop-out to doing something else more creative. I think the director was trying to keep it true to the play, but I think a soliloquy is more effective in a theater rather than in a movie.
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