Explain why a scene‚ chapter‚ sequence or speech has been added or omitted from one or more screen variations. Act Three‚ Scene Three of Shakespeare’s Henry V was omitted from the first film adaptation‚ which was directed by Lawrence Olivier in 1944. The language in the hypotext is extremely hostile and the scene itself is controversial. Shakespeare’s use of lexis such as ’shrill‚ shrieking ’ and murdering the old and putting them ’on pikes’ Henry V is set during a wartime period and the first
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Act 4 Scene 7 Lines 162-194 Summary : * Gertrude enters with tragic news : Ophelia‚ mad with grief‚ has drowned in the nearby stream. * Laertes flees the room in agony‚ followed by Claudius who is afraid that Laertes’s calmed rage will be renewed with the news of Ophelia’s death. Ophelia: L.166-168 Willow ≡ traditional symbol of forsaken love. Garland of willow ≡ lover makes when his/her beloved has left him/her. L.169-171 Daisy ≡ dissembling (disintegrating) Nettles sting‚ “long
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In this scene‚ Tom leaves to the fire-escape and ponders on where he grew up. Amanda eventually joins Tom where they apologize and forgive each other. Tom then tells Amanda that a man named Jim O’connor is coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Amanda is absolutely ecstatic with this news‚ but she is also nervous that she will not have enough time to clean the place in time. Tom tells Amanda not to get too excited because Jim is not coming to exclusively meet Laura. Tom also says that Laura is crippled
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Significance of the opening scenes in the film you have studied The opening scenes in the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene starts with old‚ early
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Scene Comparison: The Coin Toss The award winning film‚ No Country for Old Men‚ adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s 2007 novel‚ is a riveting tale of a brutal chain of events related to money‚ murder‚ and drugs‚ which rolls through West Texas in the 1980’s. Told through the perspective of the stories three main characters – a soulless killer‚ an old time sheriff‚ and an experienced country boy – both the novel and the film keep the audience anxiously waiting for the next gun fight or brutal killing
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the Ego‚ the Superego and the Id. These three sections of her psyche can be best analyzed in the famous “Nunnery scene” from Shakespeare’s everlasting play Hamlet. In this scene Ophelia suffers from a critical mental overload that triggers a chain of cataclysmic events that robs her of not only of her innocence‚ but also her sanity. To apply a psychological lens to the “Nunnery scene”‚ we must first understand how a
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viewers/audience that this character may have a dark/negative impact on the story as a whole (in particular Edward Scissorhands). T - TECHNIQUE E - EXAMPLE E – EFFECT T - TECHNIQUE E - EXAMPLE E - EFFECT Group 1 One technique used in this scene to set the atmosphere or create tension is a close-up. Example ( An example of this is when the two main characters are talking through their headsets to each other while flying towards the alien ship. We see the close-up of their faces in order to
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Mise-en-scène The placement of a prop or altering the way the light shines on a scene‚ however insignificant they may seem‚ are ways that the director can select and control meaning in a film. Such is in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming‚ 1939)‚ specifically during the scene where Dorothy (Judy Galand) has been locked in the Wicked Witch of the West’s (Margaret Hamilton) castle room by herself; many aspects of mise-en-scene are noticeable. Many of the elements of the scene she is in contribute to
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from the use of doorways as a frame for the shot‚ to the use of 70’s music as the background for this film. Overall‚ in my opinion‚ the style of Pulp Fiction is one of the main reasons the movie has been so popular for this amount of time. Mise-en-scene in Pulp Fiction is seen throughout the movie‚ but what fits its definition the best is the use of the briefcase. The briefcase seems to the normal filmgoer as a very important prop that helps develop the story‚ but most people know it as a red herring
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Title of movie: Sin City For my essay on mise-en-scene‚ I will be talking about Sin City‚ written and directed by Frank Miller‚ Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino. In this film‚ there are many unique techniques used by the directors to portray emotions‚ hidden meanings and to determine mood. Sin City is a bold and brutal adaptation of the graphic novels written by Frank Miller. Mise-en-scene is a cinematic term‚ which refers to techniques used by directors to help construct a specific onscreen
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