Ophelia's madness

In the first version directed by Zeffirelli they really stressed the madness of Ophelia after Polonious died. The director of this version really made a strong effort to show how broken up she was about his death. At various points in the movie she is seen babbling to herself and making crazy hand jesters. One scene that shows her true breaking point is when she is in the court yard holding some twigs and chicken bones talking about them being flowers.Other points in the video she gets very aggressive towards people and she flips out with a crazy high pitched toned voice or no reason at all. This version focuses a lot on the madness of Ophelia before her death.

In the second version directed by  Branagh is way more extreme then the other too versions of Ophelia before her death. In one scene she is locked up in a stray jacket on the floor blurting out complete words of madness. Ophelia looked completely mad to this highest extent in this version of Hamlet. The director really wanted to stress the insanity that she was going through. In the book their is a scene where Ophelia is holding flowers and saying what they represent and in all the other versions she is hold something but in this version she  not holding anything at all. This scene was very dramatic and i think that for the movie it was in it played in accordance with everything else. But yet again if you go for the stereotypical version of Hamlet it is completely over dramatic. 

In the third version directed by  Almereyda  The events leading up to Ophelias madness were not as dramatic as the other two versions of Hamlet that we have previously viewed. She did show a short of madness but it was more of a crazy depressions stage in her life then a psychotic stage like the other two versions displayed. The other two films also had a scene where Ophelia was holding "flowers" and mumbling on and on about what they meant. This modern version of Hamlet changed those flowers to pictures which probably showed pictures that she had taken. This version had a more sentimental meaning then the other two version because they pictures where probably of things that meant something special to her and not just a bunch of straw and chicken bones or even nothing at all. This version of Ophelias death scene was completely different from the other two they took a more depressing road to her death. This way of organizing  her death scene really flowed with the movie.