Fences Movie Vs Play Essay

During class, my group discussed how watching the film Fences changed our understanding for the play Fences. We discussed that throughout the movie, the dialogue flowed smoother compared to trying to understand and read it in play form. We also discussed how the movie brought out more raw emotions throughout the characters which made them more likeable on the screen than they appeared on paper. Our example is Troy; he seems like a horrible person and an unlikable guy reading the play but in the movie, his personality portrayed by actor Denzel Washington makes him a very likable guy despite his actions. Also, the theme of baseball is shown more than the play with the visual representation of the baseball on a rope swinging from the tree. In
In Act I scene IV, Troy talks about his father and how he grew up as a little boy. As I read this scene in the play, I really didn’t take into consideration any specific emotion troy would be feeling and showing while explaining his past. In the movie, he seemed very emotional and I would say a little choked up in talking about his father and his past. He was also drunk in the movie while talking about it so that added a little more to the scene as well as he talked and kept drinking his alcohol. I also enjoyed watching the movie because I could take what I read on paper and watch pretty much the same play on the screen. I am into seeing and watching things more than I am into reading. I also liked how the dialogue was really similar in the movie to the play but it flowed better because the actors did a good job with the language and how it would sound from that time period. I also loved the visual representation of the baseball theme with the bat leaning on the tree and the ball on the rope hung to the tree in the backyard. Baseball is an important theme throughout the book and the movie illustrated that to