I Expect.

In his introduction to Hamlet, Kenneth Branagh says that he became obsessed with that story since he was 15 or even younger. I can’t say that that also happened to me but ever since I read Romeo and Juliet in eight grades and then again in ninth grade I started to really like Shakespeare’s work. With Macbeth I liked them even more because of the way that story was explained to me.

Watching this introduction also made me think about the movies I saw about the other Shakespeare productions I have read, The Leonardo Di Caprio version of Romeo and Juliet and Orson Welles’s Macbeth. With Hamlet, I expect I better movie than the other ones, it’s not that I did not enjoy those ones but they were confusing and boring. What I look forward to with Hamlet is a movie that can really capture Shakespeare’s play unlike the other movies, one that can express the characters real emotions. But before we watch the movie I suppose we are going to read it and I expect a better story than the ones I have already read so that I can love Hamlet as Branagh does.