After watching the Hamlet trailer, I felt a heavy feeling of intrigue. As mentioned during the clip, Hamlet is the "most celebrated drama in the English language". I definitely feel that the whole video was purely dramatic and the music did not necessarily go with this dramatic sense. The soundtrack seemed very happy compared to what was shown in the trailer. This made the video as a whole seem a bit strange to me, specially because of the typical narration of an old man in the background saying facts about the "classical" movie.
There is a clear emphasis in the internal conflict, since Hamlet says "to be, or not to be", followed by many other scenes of sadness, sex and murder filled with emotion and evident tension between the characters. I don't know what the conflict is about yet, but I am excited to start reading Hamlet and I hope to understand all of its internal drama and feeling, specially because this is one of the classics you are expected to read in order to be considered, in some places, educated. The elements that I found more appealing apart from the music and voice over was the excessive tension that never left any of the scenes in the trailer. This left me with curiosity about the plot of the book, specially because the video doesn't really tell you anything about what Hamlet is about directly, it only shows a brief introduction to the characters and the actions they take throughout the book.
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