The Importance Of Being Earnest Play Vs Movie Essay

Does the "Importance of being Earnest" Movie live up to Wilde's original play? Oliver parker made a play adapted movie from Oscar Wilde play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”. This movie turn out to be a funny, light hearted romantic version of Oscar Wilde's play. However the original play was a satirical, romantic comedic play. The play most importantly was a satirical work that criticised the upper class of the victorian society as a whole. It pointed out the flaws in marriage, social classes, and the arrogance and hypocrisy of the upper class. While the movie follows the play almost to the letter with dialogue and few additions to the scene illustrated in the play for entertainment value, it fails to live up to the expectations of the play. It fails to highlight and capture Wilde’s witty wordplay, criticism the way it was meant to be portrayed. This movie fails to get across to the view the true meaning of Wilde work turning it into a light hearted movie that fails to trigger deep
This evident in the music and the over appearance of the play. The music is light up beat with the use of trumpets and other instruments to make an energetic light mood throughout the movie. When Gwendolen and Cecily find out the truth about Jack and Algernon the scene in the play is seen as a rather serious moment in the play. However, in the movie the scene is lightened when Algy and Jack started to play a piano and guitar together trying to bring the women down all while having their servants move the piano around. This is one of the numerous scenes that are funny but lightens the seriousness of importants scenes in the play. Wilde play while having funny moment, wanted to keep the play rather serious so that the audience could catch onto important dialogue between the characters. However because of the energetic, gleeful moments the audience miss to capture Wilde wordplay and satirical comments lined throughout the