“I was raised to be charming not sincere.” Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim is about a witch that gives a childless baker and his wife a list of magical items they have to find from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree, Into The Woods is a play as well as a movie; which are different in ways but they are also similar. In the movie there are things that are more fitting than in the play. However the play is more entertaining to watch then the movie because it's funnier, it does not leave senecs out like the movie, and how the performers acted.
The play is funnier than the movie because the people that are acting have to think on their feet. If something does not go how it should because then they have to improvise and make stuff up along the way which makes it funnier. Many people may think that the play is better or they might think the movie
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is better. The play performance is better than the movie just because you know things are fake such as the cow so that makes it funnier. When things are fake that allows you to see how the actors interact with the fake objects and make them do what they want them to do. Such as the baby the baker gets after the spell is reversed. With special effects they make it cry when they want it to so they don't have to worry about that making them mess up. Also because the cow is fake they can just pick it up and put it down wherever they want to, which makes it funny. However the movie is funny when the two princes are singing agony and they are kind of competing against each other. Also, when Jack trades Milky White for magic beans his reaction is funny because he believes the baker that they are magical beans. However that is only a small part of the movie not throughout the whole thing like in the play. Because of that the movie is not as funny. There is also not everything in the movie that there is in the play. The play has some more scenes in it then the movie does.
Even though the movie and the play of Into The Woods are similar, doesn't mean that they have the exact same thing in them. Such as during the play production when they are talking to the giant, Rapunzel gets squashed by the giant. In the Movie Rapunzel does not get squashed and lives. They also cut out the prince's cheating in the movie, because during the play both the princes cheated on their princesses. Also the princes cheating is kind of necessary for the film because it shows that they are not happy with their princesses. Rapunzel getting squashed allowed witch to be sad since she died and allowed us to see another side of the witch. The princes not cheating makes it not as dramatic having both of them cheat makes it more dramatic and draws people in because they want to find out what happens next. Although having them cut those scenes allows the movie to feel shorter and not drag on forever. Having those extra scenes may make it feel longer and not necessary for the movie It might make it a little longer but not enough to notice
it. During a play there is more pressure on the actors compared to the actors in a movie. In a movie if you mess up acting something you can just go back and reshoot. During a play however you don't have time to reshoot things because you are doing it live in front of many people and can not mess up. During the play the baker had to sing a song alone you would have to be very confident because you are standing and performing in front of a large audience. In a movie there is not all the added stress when you act and sing because you're not in front of an audience you are probably only in front of a few people. In a play since it is live, the actors have to be pretty much perfect on the first. Movie actors don't have to do it perfect on the first time because if they mess up they can just reshoot that scene. Even though the actors of the play have to do it perfect the first time both the actors of the movie and the play still have to act. The movie actors don't have a lot of practice so they mess up how the director sees it and they want them to redo it which makes sense. The play actors should be pretty much perfect because they have acted it out so many times it should just be super easy for them. Actors that are in movies don't have to keep preforming the movie all they have to do is make it once and then it's over with. Play actors need more preparation so they can perfect the play. In the Into The Woods the play they have to act how someone would be if they were scared, happy, excited, etc. Movie actors do not always perform good the first time so they can just reshoot the scene. Into The Woods is about a baker and his wife that link many other fairy tales together. Into The Woods is a very entertaining play as well as a movie. The play is better than the adaptation into the movie because it is funnier, The movie leaves out events and the acting is superior.
“My life was taken from me-by one of you !” ( Raskin, pg. 34). In the book The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin a series of roller coasters comes up in this murder mystery. This story has an up and down of emotional events. The Westing Game book and movie contains many similarities and differences that are worth exploring.
Moments like these and many more made this such a well- rounded and fantastic play and won many awards in the highest honors that was bestowed on a dramatic work. The awards that were given for this play were well deserved because it had all the elements that makes a play great. Humor, drama, realistic, imaginary etc, are all components that this play has along with delivering a powerful
John Patrick Shanley creates a movie as a whole I feel was more informative than the play. In the play you have 4 characters Sister Aloysius, Father Flynn, Sister James, and Mrs. Muller. While the movie introduces a few other characters, for instance the children. For me the children made a difference because they for one made me understand what kind of kids Sister James was dealing with. I really thought that being able to see the way Father Flynn interacted with all of the young boys including Donald Muller was really helpful when trying to draw your conclusion of Father Flynn versus when reading it your left to imagine for instance; what some of the kids are like. The way the book sets you up your left leaning to Father Flynn being exactly what Sister Aloysius accuses him to be. We also get to see how sister James interacts with the kids and how Sister Aloysius influences her to change the way she deals with and teaches her class.
Imagining the similarities between one of the most famous Shakespearean plays and a new animated Disney movie is difficult, until you look deeply into the characters. From the Shakespearean play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is extremely similar to Mother Gothel from the Disney movie Tangled. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife that has strong desires and personality. The movie Tangled created a similar character with Mother Gothel, she is Rapunzel's mother and believes in going after what you want. The two characters are not the exact same, they differ in their desires and in their ending demise. They are much more similar in their motives and their actions which reveal their shared character traits.
The play was complete in itself being that it led the reader to use his or her imagination to put together all of the complexities of their interactions. That being said, I would recommend the film over the written play because of how powerful the messages shown by the actors through body language are. They brought a level of depth to the message that the original author was unable to achieve.
So many books or pieces of literature have been made into films. At times the films can mirror exactly what the author wrote and hoped to convey, but often films can either create this sense of enhancement of the book or distort it completely due to more or less background information and a change the perspective of the main character. The book Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer was one of those movies that was recreated into film by director Sean Penn. This is a story of a young man who is unsettled with the poisoned ways of society. He goes on to destroy his previous identity and creates a new one, he abandons his home, car, life-savings, and family life to live on the road and in the wilderness of Alaska. It was mentioned he was trying to escape society as a whole and find himself and happiness. Both the book and the film follow a pretty consistent plot that correlate with each other, both making it evident that Chris was a polarizing subject. So, why does the book portray Chis McCandles as a charismatic, outgoing, well-educated nice kid, as where the movie portrays him more as foolish, immature, unprepared boy biting off more than he can chew? It all depends on your interpretation of both sources within the given information. The following comparison will address the book versus film version of Into the Wild and raise the issue of the amount of background information given in the book versus the film and the change in perspective of the main character Christoper Johnson McCandles.
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
Into the Woods overall was a good play to watch. I liked how the plot brought together all of the fairy tales and how the characters all played their different parts. There were some negatives during the play. However, these negatives were minimal compared to the overall experience I received. The highs of the play were the Baker, the Wolf, and The Little Riding Hood as well as the music. Into the Woods would be great to watch with anyone of any age because it had a little something for everyone.
The play “A Christmas Carol – A ghost story of Christmas” by Charles Dickson, directed by James Black in Houston, TX was performed in a similar way in “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickson, directed by Michael Wilson in Washington, D.C. The both plays had similarities and differences throughout the play in which demonstrated different creativity from the different directors. The rating that was given by the reviewer of the play in Washington gave a 5 out of 5 star rating. For the play that I went to watch the rating I would give it would be a 5 star rating.
one of the most important reasons could be the use of humour in the play.
Another major difference in the mood of the play and the movie is in the funeral
In society there is a longing for a story to have a nice and neat happy ending. Broadway and the theater originally would give this to their audience, especially in America. Give the audience what the want! They want happy endings that mirror their own values and interpretations of how the world should be and at the end of it should be, “and they all lived happily ever after.” The fairy tale ending is something society hopes, dreams, and strives for since we could listen to our parents read us fairy tales with these sweet stories of finding true love and having to fight the odds to be the Prince or Princess you deserve to be. With Into the Woods, Lapine and Sondheim sought out to explore what could go wrong with “happily ever after.” Effectively leaving the audience with the adage, “be careful what you ask for…”
Going to the movies is an experience that everyone can enjoy, and while most people have an idea of what genre of movie they are partial to, there are some movies that will appeal to almost any crowd. I recently took my two nieces, ages ten and thirteen, to see the 2014 musical Into the Woods, and in the audience there was a large group of teenagers, a couple families that had brought their preteen and teenage children, and even some adults that had gone to see it for their own enjoyment. There are numerous aspects of a movie that can catch a person’s attention, and the film producers of Into the Woods knew exactly how to draw in the desired crowd. In order to do this, the filmmakers used both ethos and pathos to appeal to their intended preteen, teenage, and adult audiences.
...r the reader. The comedy helps break the story up a bit and gives the reader a mental breather from some of the complications in the play. While the reader is given a mental breather from the seriousness of the play they also are fed some of Hamlet's inner thought about the people he is interacting with. Hamlet is able to directly tell the other person exactly what he feels of them and by using humor, sneak it past them in most cases.
...ay. Only rarely do they back fire on him and cause the audience to be so detached from the play that they don’t want to be there anymore. When this is not the case, comedy is a very useful tool to alienate the audience and ultimately get an important message across.