Play Vs Movie Proof Essay
How easy can you trust others? how about holding a grudge on others? In “Proof” by David Auburn Catherine, the protagonist in the play had to sacrifice her personal life to care for her sick father, Robert. In the jest of him being sick, we learn that Catherine has written a mathematical proof that intellectually resembles her brilliant mathematician of a father. Unfortunately after the death of her father, Catherine grows the courage to show her work to her new boyfriend and also her sister, but they end up not believing that Catherine is capable of writing such a complex proof. “Proof” has been turned into a movie as well, where we see many similarities and differences to the play. “Proof” by David Auburn and the movie were both enjoyable
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From the beginning of the play when we see Catherine in a bike riding around the neighborhood, to scenes like her in the bedroom with Hal. The movie creates suspense when Hal is figuring out if Catherine truly wrote the proof, it drags on the scenes and flashing back to the pass a couple times to confuse the readers. Throughout the scenes the viewers could possibly be thinking was Catherine really lying? Could she be really capable of writing this proof? The movie flashes back to when her father, Robert is eagerly telling her about a proof he has been working on, but the viewers don’t end up seeing it. The movie tries so hard to characterize Catherine as a crazy and emotional woman who might be capable of stealing a brilliant work from her own father, but then in the end it reveals that Catherine was truly the person who wrote the proof. It makes the viewers guilty for even thinking that she couldn’t be as intelligent as her father. The movie “Proof” was based on the play by David Auburn so we would expect the play and the movie to be generally similar, but surprisingly there was many differences. The play “Proof” played with the idea of genius vs insanity and made the readers decide if Catherine was truly going crazy like her father or was her delusions a sign of her brilliance. Some of us grow to love Catherine for her realness and sarcastic attitude, makes you think was she always like that or
From the beginning of the play when we see Catherine in a bike riding around the neighborhood, to scenes like her in the bedroom with Hal. The movie creates suspense when Hal is figuring out if Catherine truly wrote the proof, it drags on the scenes and flashing back to the pass a couple times to confuse the readers. Throughout the scenes the viewers could possibly be thinking was Catherine really lying? Could she be really capable of writing this proof? The movie flashes back to when her father, Robert is eagerly telling her about a proof he has been working on, but the viewers don’t end up seeing it. The movie tries so hard to characterize Catherine as a crazy and emotional woman who might be capable of stealing a brilliant work from her own father, but then in the end it reveals that Catherine was truly the person who wrote the proof. It makes the viewers guilty for even thinking that she couldn’t be as intelligent as her father. The movie “Proof” was based on the play by David Auburn so we would expect the play and the movie to be generally similar, but surprisingly there was many differences. The play “Proof” played with the idea of genius vs insanity and made the readers decide if Catherine was truly going crazy like her father or was her delusions a sign of her brilliance. Some of us grow to love Catherine for her realness and sarcastic attitude, makes you think was she always like that or