Comparing Twelfth Night And She's The Man

A lot of change can happen in 400 years, and the differences are clear between the play Twelfth Night and the movie She’s the Man. There are significant alterations in character names. The relations in families differ greatly between the two. Many changes also happen in the style of humour used. But the most obvious differences between Twelfth Night and She’s the Man are in character names.
The names in the Elizabethan time play Twelfth Night are in contrast to the modern movie She’s the Man. For example, the character Antonio who is a ship captain in Twelfth Night, is a hairstyler named Paul Antonio in the film. In the film, most people refer to him with his first name, instead of the name he shares with Antonio in the play. This is also true
for the character Duke Orsino in She’s the Man. The character is a duke named Orsino in Twelfth Night, but in the modern story, he is a student named Duke Orsino. His first name makes more sense than Antonio’s, because Orsino in the play, is the duke of Illyria. The character that deviates the most from the play is Malcolm Feste who owns a pet spider named Malvolio. Malcolm’s last name in She’s the Man is Feste’s name in Twelfth Night. Malcolm may share his name with the character Feste, but his demeanor is very similar to the character Malvolio, in Twelfth Night. Who like Malcolm Feste in the film, loves Olivia. The combination of the two characters in the movie is surprising, because individually, Malvolio and Feste are very contradicting. In Twelfth Night, the character Malvolio is very rigid and has a superior attitude, and is very egotistic. On the other hand, Feste is a more relaxed character. Feste enjoys joking and making fun of people, he is intelligent but has an easy-going attitude. The changes in characters, and attitudes makes for different families.
The families are dissimilar between the Movie She’s the Man and the Play Twelfth Night.
In the play, Sir Toby and Olivia are related. He is her uncle or possibly her cousin. But in She’s the Man, they are school mates, and friends, yet not related. During the movie, Viola’s and Sebastian’s Parents are divorced, it is the base of the trick Viola uses to pretend to be Sebastian. Without separated parents, Viola couldn’t tell her parents that she was staying at the other parents house to go to Illyria. In Twelfth Night, it is told that Viola’s and Sebastian’s father died years ago. In Twelfth Night, the original reason Olivia rebuffs Orsino is because she is still mourning the death of her brother and only remaining family member. Despite no mention of any family members of Olivia in She’s the Man. Names and family members may be important, but the way the different ways that characters express humor is arguably much more important.
In elizabethan times, when Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night, humor was mostly based on wordplay and puns. In She’s the Man there is humor based on nudity. Near the end of the film, to prove their genders Viola and Sebastian reveal their body parts to a crowd. It plays on vulgar humor that wasn’t publicly displayed in elizabethan times. A comedic device in Twelfth Night is the humiliation Malvolio endures planned by Sir Toby, Maria, and Fabian. During She's the Man there aren't any schemes to embarrass any characters. The three major differences make
a dramatic change in the overall story.
There are many alterations in the film She's the Man from the play Twelfth Night. All in all, the differences in the names of the characters, the different families, and the types of comedy used is large. When watching the two shows, from small differences such as how the characters dress, to as large as how the story develops, one can easily count the ways the two stories differ. From the entire tale, to acts, scenes, conversations, sentences, words, and even to the letter.