Differences in film and play: "The Night of the Iguana" May 13‚ 2006 John Houston carries a common theme throughout most of his movies‚ the theme of religion. The same holds true for his theatrical presentation of Tennessee Williams short play "The Night of the Iguana." The main character of the play‚ Reverend Shannon‚ is known to be a teacher of the word but this is not portrayed in the play even close to as much as it is in Houston’s film. I will discuss three major differences between
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Night of the Iguana Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams is a melodramatic tale of an ex-reverend’s struggle between his faith and sexual desires. Shannon‚ the ex-reverend‚ finds him-self fighting between the two conflicting sides of his personality. Shannon’s inner conflict consisted of his desire for young women‚ as a result of a childhood trauma‚ and his lust for a lifestyle of purity influenced by god. Shannon’s two conflicting sides are represented by the puritanical and judgmental Ms
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The Night of the Iguana Symbolism This movie is saturated with symbolism even if it sometimes made no sense. I found several symbols interesting and one of them was the rum-coco. It was a symbol for Maxine’s sexuality‚ especially towards Shannon. Throughout the movie‚ Maxine continuously offers Shannon a rum-coco when she’s attempting to calm/seduce him. At the end of the movie‚ it is Shannon offering Maxine the rum-coco as a form of acceptance and it is implied that they finally sleep together
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Realistic Breakthroughs As the unsettling story begins to unfold‚ everyone in The Night of the Iguana deals with great loss and questions of eternity. The genre and style of the play help to set the overall tone and better understand the difficult story line. The Night of the Iguana is indubitably a drama shown through central characters internal struggles and also depicts the style of realism. Drama unfolds throughout the play through individual’s internal wars that are ultimately manifested externally
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The Crucible The movie The Crucible was made in 1996‚ its main characters are John Proctor‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ Abigail Williams‚ Reverend John Hale‚ and Judge Danforth. Early in the year 1692‚ in the small Massachusetts village of Salem‚ a collection of girls fell ill‚ falling victim to hallucinations and seizures. New England’s Puritans extreme involvement with religion led to the theory that frightening or surprising occurrences were often attributed to the devil or his cohorts. The incomprehensible
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“The Iguana” The taking over a culture is something that the Europeans should have never done. Taking over Africa to try and make it the way they wanted ruined their culture and customs‚ in attempts to make Africa more like England but in fact the changes destroyed what made Africa unique. In Isak Dinesens “The Iguana‚” Dienesens shoot’s an iguana for the beauty of the skin then after standing over the lifeless iguana’s pale skin and realizes that only full of life can it be beautiful. Dinerens
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film based on the 1952 play The Crucible by Arthur Miller did a commendable job at an accurate portrayal of the play. But in any book‚ or in this case‚ play to movie conversion‚ some differences occur. The few differences that stand are not important enough to sway the fact that the movie did an excellent job of portraying the play. One of the biggest differences between the play and the movie is the dramatization of everything‚ they show all seances with something that the play could not deliver by
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Macbeth play there have been many noticeable differences between the play and the movie. Some of them are the brutality of the film‚ Duncan was murdered off stage in the play but in the movie we were allowed to witness Macbeth’s betrayal. However‚ the movies gori graphics helped us understand the raw emotions that Shakespeare wrote about. A couple of other examples are that some soliloquies changed to inner monologues in the movie for the sake of psychological realism‚ and that the play had only
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The Differences between the Play and the Movie Macbeth The movie Macbeth has many differences from the actual play; here are just a few of them. First of all it is set in a completely different time period most likely the late 1930’s to the early 1940’s‚ while the original storyline is during the late 1400’s or during the early 1500’s. Though this change did change the settings‚ it was a really interesting contrast the two time periods. The second was that the witches in the play
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Most books that become a movie are heavily criticized for the differences between the two; The movie Othello‚ on the other hand‚ does an excellent job on following the original plot of the play‚ The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare. A praised and trusted war hero‚ Othello‚ is sent for service in a city named Cyprus and is accompanied by his first lieutenant‚ Cassio‚ ensign‚ Iago‚ and wife‚ Desdemona. Iago secretly hates Othello because he felt that he deserved Cassio’s
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