"Play in the play"

In class, we discussed how to relate Hamlet with the game Gary's Mod. It is an excellent idea that we could actually "perform the play" in laptops. We can create the scene and something more than it described in the script.

Here is my thoughts.

As the stuff in the game are modern, so we must make a modern edition. The movie gives me some inspiration that the characters can be ninjas living in modern society, which make them a sense of magical reality instead of a movie of murder and revenge. Hamlet is definitely the most important character. He can still be a college student with Ophelia, laertes and Horatio. Claudius is a successful and powerful businessman, and Polonius is working for him. They uses gun instead of swords, but Claudius never uses a gun.

Also, there are TV sets in the game that can play video and connect with camera on computer, which makes it more interesting to direct a play. We can use them as tools to help audience to know the story, so, while the main plot is going on, we play something in the TV sets like sub-consciousness, memory or private thinkings.

It will be fun. =)