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Prospero In The Play
818 wordsThe Tempest Recently, NBC aired the world premier of their interpretation of Shakespeare's short play, The Tempest. In this rendition, many key points, themes, plot, and character insight were lost in an attempt to connect Shakespeare's tiny deserted island to the American Civil War in Mississippi. Hollywood, following suit, molded The Tempest to fit American history in a venture to modernize Shakespeare, as the recent re-release of Romeo and Juliet accomplished, fails to maintain essential elem...
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Marley's Ghost And The Other Three Ghosts
310 wordsThe story is about Ebeneezer Scrooge. He is a stubborn and straight-laced man. He is visited by three ghosts: the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future. After the visits, he decides to be merry and jolly and make other people realize that there is more to life than being mean. The high point in the story is when Ebeneezer is visited by Jacob Marley's ghost and the other three ghosts. The two lessons that I learned is that there is more to life than money and that you should be caring and g...
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Shakespeare's Play Romeo And Juliet
922 wordsContrast Essay: Romeo and Juliet Often times people say that William Shakespeare was and still is a legend. The yare correct. It is amazing how Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet written centuries ago can be better than Franco Zefferelli's movie production of Romeo and Juliet, which had much better technology to work with only decades ago. Although the movie appeared better, it left out some major parts. The play had better mood and plot details which made it much more dramatic and by far abett...
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Movie Hamlet Vs The Play Hamlet
510 wordsPlay vs. Movie Watching both play and movie, makes you wonder about the differences and the similarities. Paying attention to those kinds of things makes you realize your sense of thought. In this essay I will be taking you into a deeper level on Hamlet. Now by seeing the movie Hamlet vs. the play Hamlet, you will notice that scene one came right after scene two in the movie. It threw me off a little bit because you were least expecting it. The other change was when Ophelia was talking with her ...
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Movie And The Play
337 wordsUsually, when a movie is made about a story in a book or a play, the two stories are not exactly the same. The movie tends to add small details or leave some out in order to meet time limits and to make the story what they think will be more interesting. Such is the case with Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close left out and even added things that were not originally in the play. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he did not write in a scene depicting the funeral of Kin...
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Movie And The Play
931 wordsI did my project on Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" I just so happened to see the movie and the play and will be using both for my comparison. "Much Ado About Nothing" is a postwar love story. Its principal subject is that of romance that may settle over the land after soldiers come home. I noticed that Much Ado is actually two love stories. One concerns sweetly innocent lovers who are driven apart by the plotting of enemies. The other involves very sarcastic lovers who are swept into eac...
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Jean Claude Van Damme Plays Two Roles
771 wordsThe movie opens twenty-five years ago in Hong Kong. The parents of two twin babies, Alex and Chad, had borrowed money from Raymond Zhang and Nigel Griffith, two lead smugglers. They needed the money in order to build a tunnel between Hong Kong and the mainland. After the tunnel was built and the money collected, Nigel Griffith and Raymond Zhang had a gang of hit men massacre Alex and Chad's family. Frank Avery, a friend of the family, races into the scene and finds the parents already dead. The ...
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Funniest Character In The Movie
573 wordsSid PhilavanhHum. 120 Mr. Lewis Response Paper #3 Much Ado about Something My opinion about the movie, Much Ado about Nothing, is that it was a very good movie. This movie had just about everything that makes a movie good. It had drama, romance, action, and most importantly it had comedy. This movie is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Even though they spoke in Shakespearean language, the character's expressions were enough to make anyone rollover and laugh. The cast of the movie was ...
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Movie
740 wordsMovie Review of Jerry Maguire If you want to take a break from the frigid air of a Montreal winter, go to see Jerry Maguire; it will be sure to warm your heart. If you " re like me, you " re a little tired of going to see big name stars in overly hyped, big time busts. Combine that with the fact that sports movies are rarely impressive, (Necessary Roughness?!? The Program?! ?) and I have to say that my hopes were not too high for this movie. Let me tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. The title...
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Mid Summers Night Dream One Play
553 wordsA Mid Summers Night Dream One play can be told in so many different ways but yet have the same story behind it. A major example of this is the six interpretations of William Shakespeare's play A Mid Summers Night Dream. In class we saw these six versions, there were many differences in these plays. The setting, accuracy, costuming, acting, direction, and interpretations. The versions we saw were; a cartoon of the play, a 1940's, 1960's, and a 1999 movie versions of the plat and last we a 1999 st...
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Character's Personality In The Movie
788 wordsYou have entered into the world where you will further discover the secret behind Denman Leigh, the creator of his "twin". Behind the curtains' of Dr. Leigh is his science world filled with suspense that no one can imagine. This movie provides the opportunity for viewers to ponder how and why the "twin" was created. Science fiction opens the doors to imagination and infinite possibilities that keeps the viewers questioning "what if... ". This sort of questioning makes people connect the movie to...
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Extremely Entertaining Movie
449 wordsShakespeare in Love is a fictional story about the writing of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare, played by Joseph Fiennes, is in the middle of what could be a disastrous writer's block. His idea for the play, which should be completed, is a pirate comedy entitled Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter. But Will is stuck, his shrink asks him how long it has been since he has been with a woman and advises him that that is what he needs. Auditions are held since the players' troup...
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Play And A Movie
734 wordsMovies vs. Plays Plays are live shows with actors and actresses acting out a story in front of a live audience. A movie is a pre-taped showing of actors and actresses acting out a story. There are benefits and hindrances both to seeing a play and a movie. Making a movie allows for postproduction to add effects, plays cannot accomplish this because it is a live production. Watching a movie is very much more entertaining to an audience than any play that is being shown live. Since movies are not l...
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Play To The Movies
1,307 wordsTrue love, can be a fantasy come true or you worst nightmare in my perspective, for love is a strong word and its used to frequently, but in the three movies I have observed you find yourself truly believing in love and in my opinion, True love is out there, and if your lucky you will meet the right person, the man or woman of your dreams. The three movies I picked are Shakespearean plays, Romeo and Juliet, the modern movie made in 1996, Othello which is also a known classic, tragic love story, ...
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Movie Julius Caesar
1,269 wordsJulius Caesar is a tragic play by William Shakespeare, the most famous dramatist of all time. In this essay, I will be comparing Shakespeare's original version to Robert Furnivall and Stuart Burge's film adaptation. Despite a good effort, the film version of Julius Caesar just doesn t compare to Shakespeare. The 1970 movie Julius Caesar, with a better job of casting and direction, could have been a great adaptation of the Shakespeare classic. Had the casting director casted the right actor for t...
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Play Willys Son Biff
928 wordsDeath is such a contradicting situation. It is always a sad event, but in some perspectives it may or may not be a joyous event. Not to say that death should be celebrated, just to point out that life may have been a more dramatic experience. For my first novel in G.T. I read Death of a Salesman, a play written by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was born in 1915, in New York City. His parents were well To do until the depression. He attended college where he won three drama prizes. Death of a Sales...
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Original Play In The Movie Water
1,576 wordsFilm Analysis Of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet, filmed in 1997, directed by Baz Luhrmann. A good production, like many by this director. Camera techniques at the maximum, excellent soundtrack and well cast actors in it's corresponding characters. Like I said a good filming production, even though it's not an outstanding characterisation of the Shakespearean play. For me there are some little details that don't let this film be equivalent to the play. The language and some actors are two of t...
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Movie And The Play
533 wordsWhen writing a comparison between a Shakespeare play and a play that has been made into a movie, one must remember something: Shakespeare never saw a movie, nor did he intend for his plays to become movies. You can tell this by the language of his plays. Since in a play, you cannot show the weather or the scenery, Shakespeare's language is very descriptive. In Romeo and Juliet, love is depicted in several ways. Both the movie (1996) and the play (1597) represent love in different ways and in dif...
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Perfect Movie
274 wordsShakespeare In Love There's only one thing that stands in the way of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and a new hit play... writer's block. A wife away in Stratford and muse-less, Shakespeare has "lost his gift" and is therefore unable to write his new comedy; Romeo and Ethel: The Pirate's Daughter. As Will is attempting to find his muse, we meet Viola De Lesseps (Gwenyth Paltrow), a wellborn woman who longs for the stage. When they meet, there is no doubt, this is definately love. You can't...
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Movie Rosencrantz And Guilderstern
502 wordsThis is a portion of an actual Shakespearean play. Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are the minor characters of Hamlet by Shakespeare. This movie is based on the scene where Claudius, the king of Denmark, hires Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to kill Hamlet. Indeed, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead is a typical Hamlet, which zooms in only on one act. As it might be inferred by the title, the movie is not about Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. It is a play where Ros and Guild play a major role, contra...
