The Similarities between the Zefirelli and the Luhrman is the use of the Shakespearean language and the difference is their settings. While, the similarities between the Zefirelli and West Side Story is that they both follow the story of “Romeo and Juliet” although they are different in the setting and language that is used. West side Story and Lurman is similar in the setting they used, more modern, but different in how they have made the story and also the language used. So, these three movie versions of the “Romeo and Juliet” have differences and similarities between them. Franco Zeferelli made “Romeo and Juliet” very traditional that it really uses a balcony to show the balcony scene.
Comparison between the two film versions Romeo & Juliet by Luhrmann & Zefferelli. The following task looks at the comparing & contrasting representations that have supported the understanding of Shakespeare's text. To consider the exercise here, of comparing and contrasting the films, there needs to be an understanding of the difference between Comparison- (which means to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc) in order to note similarities and differences) & Contrast- (which means a difference, especially a strong dissimilarity, between entities or objects compared.) When analyzing the two distinct 'Romeo and Juliet' films and comparing them, I noticed that both Zefferelli and Luhrmann had a different interpretation of Shakespeare’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. For example, Franco Zefferelli produced his film in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann produced his in 1997.
Recent Cinematic Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: with reference to films by Welles, Polanski, Kurosawa and Bharadwaj Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a film, but film adaptations include the use of non-fiction, autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays and even other films. Adaptation can be a trnaspositional practice, casting a specific genre into another generic mode, an act of re-vision in itself. Adaptation can also constitute a simpler attempt to make texts ‘relevant’ or easily comprehensible, to new audiences and readerships via the processes of proximation and updating. Films sometimes use plays as their sources.
2. Answer: The difference between reading a play and seeing one performed is that in a play you can visually see the characters and the essence they bring on the stage for the characters. In reading a play you can get more detail that you otherwise may have missed while visually seeing one. (6 points) |Score | | | 3. How does Gibson’s depiction of Annie Sullivan affect the way readers view her?
Candy then shows up, then George. In the book, Curley’s wife shows up in Crook’s room before George comes in looking for Lennie. A similarity that happened between the two is when Lennie shook Curley’s wife after she let him play with her hair, which ended with Lennie breaking her neck. But when he runs away to the brush down by the river, Lennie doesn’t have the hallucinations about his Aunt Clara and the rabbit like he does in the book. Also, when he’s down by the river, in the movie, George finds him in the water.
Mulholland was participating in a Freedom Ride where she was arrested, she chose to stay in jail until school started to pay off her fines. While in prison she kept a diary but had to hide it so that it won’t be found by the prison guard. She was the only white southerner on the second Freedom Ride, when arrested she recall one of the cops taking them in saying that they had “five black niggers and four white niggers”. In jail the prisoners spent their time singing, writing and reading. She spoke about how they had to share what they had with the new prisoners and when reading a magazine had to try and not get caught by prison guard.
The Demon Lover A Comparison of the Two Stories Weighted Comparison In Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover” Mrs. Drover made a promise with her fiancé to meet him at a specific date at a specific time. The poem “The Demon Lover” by an anonymous writer also center’s around this subject. Mrs. Dover tries to remember his face but cannot for the life of her remember it. Years pass and the man returns to Drover, only to find that she has already married and had kids. The story ends as the man’s face is revealed to her and she is whisked away in a car to her apparent demise.
In A. S. Byatt’s mystery, descriptive “The Thing in the Forest”, two little girls named Penny and Primrose go into the forest near a house where they are temporarily living in because of the World War II, and they saw, or thought they saw a Thing in the forest. Byatt characterizes the girls as to be different but yet lead close to identical lives. Forty years after the incident, unexpectedly, they meet again at the same house near the forest and exchange a few words about the Thing they saw as little girls. Byatt confuses the plot and makes it seem as if what they saw was not real after all. After their reunion, Penny and Primrose go separate ways in the forest to see if the Thing is valid or not.
This was put in before he went to Salem to try to free his wife. This scene was obviously incorporated in the play to help the audience have a better understanding of John and Abigail’s past relationship and where they stand during the witch trials. Another scene included was the hanging of John Proctor and after that a short video only with words talking about what happened to the characters after John was hanged. Both of these were added to show the outcome of the characters. Also, for the audience’s benefit, they excluded one part from the play.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Critical Evaluation of Opening Scenes Tom Stoppard’s film adaption of his play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, has a distinct difference from its original performance script. From the opening scenes, modifications have been made to change the emphasis on certain ideas. Stoppard subtly changes the meaning of the narrative through emphasising particular aspects in characterisation and changes in the script. With a realistic setting and the point of view created by the camera, the changes are furthered simply by the medium of film. The opening scene of the adaptation differs from that of the play script in that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are travelling through an ominous, mountain landscape, rather than being still in “a place without any visible character”.