Everybody in theatre has their part to do in order for a play to be a smash-hit; If a certain department lacks or overlooks any important aspects the play will result in a flop. This means that everything from sound effects to costuming must be checked twice over. I want cover costuming because, it is single-handily the most stressful areas when orchestrating productions. For years, costumes were used in theatre, –masks being the first form of costume ever being dated- to show emotion or wore dresses and gowns to demonstrate who was the woman in the group, –in the earlier years only men were allowed to act- now (not only can every gender act) we carry costumes for every shape and size, enabled the “quick change” method, and a whole bunch of …show more content…
The answer is probably mixed, but let us pretend that majority is no. The genius behind The Lion King is Julie Taylor. Why is she a genius, she is the one who directed this magnificent play and constructed the costumes. If one would like for me to enlighten them about Miss Taylor, she is “an American director of theatre, opera and film. She is best known for directing, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. (Wikipedia). She wanted to make the play original, but still keep the movie culture and design. Hence, why there warm, earthy tone and the animal puppets. To describe some of her creations I can give a very detailed description of one of the main characters in The Lion King: Mufasa, the king of the jungle. In her concept art, she displayed early on that she would create a lion-like, hand painted, wood-carved masks to rest upon the performers’ head and it would lower to show anger or show shame. Julie then dressed embellished bodies in red and black body paint and covered them up in African themed clothing, such as, Buba (a Yoruba blouse), an Iron (wrap skirt), or Dashiki (a male garment that cover the top half of the body). Most of the cast feet were
In Precious (2009), directed by Lee Daniels, we meet 17-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones, experiencing the unfortunate circumstances of her impoverished living with a physically and verbally abuse mother, her inability has to read or write, all while having to go through a pregnancy committed by her own father for the second time. Through the movie we find physical, psychological, and educational consequences it has left on her, but also see the willpower she gains to overcome the oppression of her living condition towards something better.
Working In The Theatre: Costumes. American Theater Wing. 20 Jan. 2015. He also talks about he has to help the audience to know where to look. Long discussed about a time where he would have to make the leading actors the understudy so he can figure out how to make the other characters “pop” as
...f Mali. It was three main leaders who fought. One of them called Abubakar II is remembered as the king who wanted to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The three leaders fought a lot and for a really long time. They fought so much they raided and burned the city Timbuktu. This wasn’t the best time of Mali. The empire of Mali got weaker and weaker all the time. The neighbor lands started to rebel against Mali and took over there land.
Through dance and movement, the storyline were expanded with the assistance of choreographer, Garth Fagan. A well-renowned choreographer for his innovative choreography primarily for Garth Fagan dance, Fagan used his unique style of choreography to the Lion King by combining a variety of Ballet, Jazz, Modern Dance, African Dance and Balinese Dance to suggest representations of nature without making a replica itself and use dance to help tell the story (Exploring the Lion King, 2010). Taymor’s idea of expanding the film by adding in choreographic elements not only will set the overall concept, it would additionally guide the visual aesthetic by allowing dance as the main element that balances musical numbers in all categories: effects, music and so on into the choreography (Bluemental et al 210:1999). Both Fagan and Taymor gave major contributions to the different styles of dance and performance techniques from around the world creating the precision and versatility that is being portrayed in the musical. In order to create the ideal staging of the hunting lionesses, flying dancers in the aerial ballet to the takeover of the hyenas at Pridelands, the collaboration between Fagan and Taymor gave suggestions of how these movements being performed with grace and poise using different dance styles and are cultural based be the forefront of the production(Taymor 148:1997). By looking at three notable dances in the musical, this chapter will analyse the presence of dance and movement being portrayed in the musical and how are these dances create the drama, still giving the idea of moving in an African Savannah. Furthermore, this will give an insight to all challenges and pitfalls both Fagan and Taymor endured during the development of the...
Many famous novels are adapted into films using a multitude of different strategies to make it interesting for all audiences. Push, the debut novel by Sapphire written in 1996, is told from the point of view of an illiterate 16-year-old obese black girl named Claireece “Precious” Jones who lives in Harlem. Precious, her preferred name, is raped by her parents at a very young age and had an incest child with down syndrome at the age of twelve and another child at the age of sixteen. After thirteen years, a movie adaptation based on this novel was released. Contrary to the book, the movie is named Precious and is directed by Lee Daniels. The novel and the film are completely different for many reasons. Keeping in mind that the movie Precious
Shakespeare is known for being a great writer, his play have been rewritten, re-adapted, and turned into films to keep their magic alive. However what many people do not know is that many of Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted into many Disney Films. More precisely “Hamlet” is one of the most used plays. Movies such as “Tarzan," “Aladdin," and “101 Dalmatians” used many scenes in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to inspire scenes in the films. The movie The Lion King by Disney, however, is one of the strongest and more closely related to “Hamlet” than any other Disney film, but how? More importantly what makes this movie more important and the focus of this essay?
The costumes which are used for this particular production are also essential in dramatizing the on-stage action.
The Lion King is Disney's most successful movie to date. Many believe that the Lion King is Disney's only original movie; the only movie not previously a fairy tale from one country or another. In fact, The Lion King is in on based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Disney writers conceal the basic character archetypes and simplified storyline in a children's tale of cute lions in Africa. On the other hand William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was based on the Epic of Son-Jara or Sundiata. This lead to the debate is the Lion King based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet or the West African story, the Epic of Son Jara. Simba, Hamlet, and Son-Jara are all heroes in their own story. All of them must take on a villain that knew very well, but who does Simba’s journey resemble the most Does Simba represent Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, or Son-Jara, the lion king.
Many perceive The Lion King, Disney's most successful movie to date, as Disney's only original movie; the only movie not previously a fairy tale from one country or another. This, however, is not the case. While The Lion King seems not to be beased on a fairy tale, it is in fact strongly based on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Disney writers cleverly conceal the basic character archetypes and simplified storyline in a children's tale of cute lions in Africa. To the seasoned reader, however, Hamlet comes screaming out of the screenplay as obviously as Hamlet performed onstage.
In The princess Diaries 2, Princess Mia graduates from college, and moves to Genovia to live in a palace with her grandmother in order to take her place as queen. On Mia’s twenty-first birthday, she is obligated to dance with all the eligible bachelors, and at her birthday “ball”, she meets Nicholas. Mia and Nicholas have an encounter where they seem the “fall in love at first sight”. After her birthday, Mia learns about a law that is enforced in Genovia that requires her to get married before she can take her place as queen, and at the same time she finds out that Nicholas is trying to steal the crown from her. Mia finds a man named Andrew that she wants to marry, but when it comes time to get married Mia backs out and makes a motion to veto the law that forces her to get married. In the end, Mia becomes queen without having to marry, and her grandmother ends up marrying the love she always wanted.
Although the movie The Lion King is often times viewed as nothing more than a child-based movie, in actuality, it contains a much deeper meaning. It is a movie that not only displays the hardships of maturation, and the perplexities associated with growing, but it is also a movie that deals with the search for one's identity and responsibility. As said by director Julie Taymor, "In addition to being a tale about a boy's personal growth, the `Lion King' dramatizes the ritual of the `Circle of Life'." Throughout The Lion King, Simba must endeavor through the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth to take his place in the circle of life, as king of the pridelands.
Many times in Hollywood, a movie that intends to portray a novel can leave out key scenes that alter the novel’s message. Leaving out scenes from the novel is mainly do to time limits, however doing so can distort the author’s true purpose of the story. In history, Movies were directed to intentionally leave out scenes that could alter the public’s opinion. This frequently let novel 's main points be swept under the rug. There were times of this at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, where white Americans were the only ones making movies. Not many African Americans had the opportunity to be involved in the process of major productions. Because racism in To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is underplayed in the film, it shows
I chose to view the movie Lion, a movie based on the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. This movie is about a five-year-old boy, Saroo, living in a poor, rural area in India. Saroo convinces his older brother Guddu, to let him tag along and find work in a nearby city. Saroo ends up trapped and alone in a decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, over 1,000 miles away from his home.
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In the play “THE LION AND THE JEWEL” we can see the ignorant atmosphere of the people in the village of “ILUJINLE” in such village we can saw a “CUNNING WOMAN SIDI” who wanted to attract many men but wanted a husband of royal status who would pay a bride-price for her let as see about it and getting a cunning “RESPONSE FOR SIDI’S CUNNING WISH”.