When you watch the movie The Makeover‚ featuring famous actress Julia Stiles‚ you may notice that it resembles something that you might have read in your English 1104 class. The movie might remind you of the play‚ Pygmalion‚ written by George Bernard Shaw. It is the story of a phonetics professor who trains an ordinary flower girl to act like a sophisticated young lady. It is based off a Greek legend where a man named Pygmalion wanted to create the perfect statue. He made her so perfect that he fell
Premium George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion English-language films
just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book‚ like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better‚ like Nick’s life after Gatsby. The book has some strong characters‚ which can be hard for actors to portray. Luhrmann did a great job casting the character. Leonardo Dicaprio plays Gatsby. He was a great choice‚ he can show many emotions and it come
Premium William Shakespeare Love Romeo and Juliet
One of the most famous plays ever to hit Broadway‚ “The Phantom of the Opera” written by Andrew Lloyd Webber‚ is a classic that no one can deny to be amazing. Its brilliant plot of a distorted musical genius that haunts an opera house in Paris and unconsciously helps a beautiful woman with her singing career and falls in love with her can seize anyone who watches it. Also‚ the dazzling music and setting launch the audience back into the time in which this incredible play takes place. But now a new
Premium Actor Theatre Musical theatre
ExistenceHamlet and AntigoneThe two classic plays Hamlet and Antigone share many themes and traits. They both challenge the ideas of life and death but still keep things on a level that anyone can relate to. This is why they are considered classics and are still read to this day. In this essay‚ I will be discussing the similarities and differences of these two classics and also analyzing the characters. One theme that is present in both books is pride. Antigone has a lot of pride. She goes against what
Premium Sophocles Antigone Hamlet
ridiculed often in his novel‚ and it is well ridiculed in the 1974 version of the movie. Fitzgerald‚ however‚
Premium Roaring Twenties The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The book and movie are completely different. It ’s like comparing apples and oranges. (I ’m assuming that you used the newest version with Guy Pierce). The biggest difference is probably the ommision of Haydee and Maximillien and Valentine (three of the main character) and the addition of Jacapo. Jacapo does is in the book‚ but he is never a large character. (This is a really long book‚ so I ’ll just put in the basics). The three people that Dantes swears vengance against are the Count de Morcerf
Premium Marriage Family
point when this novel was to be transformed into a movie‚ the director was sure to have faced many the difficulties of transforming a novel into a film. It is hard to do so‚ while making this film essentially the same as the novel. The film did have some missing pieces‚ but I do believe the director did a decent job capturing the intent and meaning of the novel. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ there were numerous similarities between the novel and movie. The standout amongst them was the actions of Atticus
Premium To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
characters Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan)‚ Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton)‚ and Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) were played on point. The movie mostly kept the same feeling as the book or helped the viewer understand it more. Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s roles in the book were recreated almost perfectly in the movie. The two actors really helped the person watching come to their senses about the love that they had for each other. They showcased the dramatic affection that
Premium The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby
To begin with‚ both the book and the movie were wonderful and I would read and watch it again‚ but the book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was more worth my time than the movie. I say this because after I watched the movie I realized how much more detail the book had than the movie‚ giving it more life and character. While watching the movie after I read the book‚ I realized that the book made it easier to remember certain events‚ because I had to think more about it when I was reading the book
Premium Film Fiction E-book
during the movie her family grows. The hope of having someone to love them and to be her family was one Celie always had. The letters Celie read from her sister Nettie gave her hope that she would see her sister again and might meet her child‚ whom she hoped would love her as their mother. In Steven Spielberg’s film‚ Color Purple‚ three messages of love‚ family‚ and hope are seen throughout the movie. Love in the Color Purple is something
Premium The Color Purple Alice Walker English-language films