Similarities and differences with Stanislavski and Brecht

     I think that in both Stanislavski's and Brecht's renditions of the scene are both some similar and very different. The tone of Stanislavski's is one of extreme grief as she goes through her fathers belongings and tries to process his death. Both scenes are set in very similar locations to start out, but the difference in lighting changes the whole mood of the scene. In Stanislavski's, there is a much warmer light that accentuates the sad feeling, but in Brecht's there is an industrial light and there is barely a sense of remorse or pain. Also Stanislavski's starts out slowly like a normal start to a scene but Brecht's sort of jumps right in. And also in Brecht's, rather than going through the items in sadness, Ophelia just takes items out one at a time and steals what she can, which is a very different scenario. Yet another strange aspect of these scenes is the way Ophelia just breaks out into song. Its just very odd and unnerving especially with her facial features and the camera angle. For me Brecht's was more disturbing with the shots of her mouth and it was strange when she abruptly stopped singing and sort of narrated what she was doing. We watch her do her make up, then she stands up and music starts playing, and then she narrates somewhere in-between the singing, so it's just an odd sequence. Both scenes are very thought and emotion provoking, especially at the end of each one when the scene changes and she is in water. In Stanislavski's she just appears floating in the water, and she almost looks dead. I think that it was purposefully left indecisive whether she was actually dead though. But in Brecht's she doesn't just appear in the water, but slowly wades into it while singing about going to a river and her father being dead. And then at the very end she stops singing and also starts to float atop the water, also seemingly dead; I don't know for sure but I think she drank poison in the Hamlet.