He is highly reflective but inactive until the very end of the play when he does his duty, destroying the man who killed his father and losing his own life in the process. Early in the play he is given the task of avenging his father by his father's ghost, and yet for most of the play he seems to do nothing about it. The character of Hamlet is considered difficult because he is seen as passive rather than active for most of the play. Such a dark and expressionistic setting fits quite well with the internal brooding of Hamlet. The darkness of the image is matched by a darkness of spirit and a sense of foreboding that hangs over the film from the first frame. The Olivier film is dark, brooding, and truly theatrical, with sets that are suggestive rather than realistic, expressionistic rather than precise. One of the best film versions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet is that directed by and starring Laurence Olivier and made in 1948.
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