The scene that we watched from Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, was set on a cliff near an ocean. Hamlet, who is speaking to himself at the time, is speaking both outloud and in his head about what he is feeling. While speaking, there is music in the backround which makes the scene more dramatic. The director focuses in and out towards the actor's head whichshows that he's focusing on what Hamlet is thinking and what's going on in his head. The prop that the director uses is a dagger-like knife. It is used to convey the thought of Hamlet thinking about kiling himself.
Franco Zefferelli's version of Hamlet's speech is quite different from the other versions. It is set in a catacomb, where most of Hamlet's ancestors are currently residing. There is no music in the scene which makes you spend more time paying attention to what the actor is saying, it makes what they're saying have more importance than if it did have music. The actor in this scene talks of sleep- "to die: to sleep; no more; and by a sleep to say we end...in that sleep of death what dreams may come"
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