hamlet
...he point that no matter how important or influential a man was in life, they are still buried in the same ground as any pheasant. Hamlet then asks the Gravedigger who is to be buried in the grave, and after a lengthy exchange of sarcastic comments courtesy of the Gravedigger, Hamlet finally discovers that the grave is intended for a recently deceased woman. After talking with the naïve Gravedigger for awhile, both about the insanity of Prince Hamlet and the life of the king’s jester Yorick, they were interrupted by a funeral procession. It is now that Hamlet realized who the grave is intended for, his dear Ophelia. He engaged in an argument with Laertes, professing his true love for Ophelia. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum” (ll. 285-288). The Mel Gibson’s production of Hamlet produced this scene almost word for word. It was shot during the daytime, unlike the Kenneth Branagh representation that showed this scene during the night hours to produce mood. The scene where the Gravedigger shows Hamlet the skul...