Compare And Contrast Into The Woods Movie And Play

“Agony! Far more painful than yours.” This quote is the same for both the play and the film adaptation of Into the Woods, written by Stephen Sondheim. The film adaptation is very similar to the original play, but the play is better for multiple reasons. The movie left out some key parts from the play, the movie’s casting for certain roles were not the greatest, and the way the narration was used was better in the play than the movie.

Many scenes from the 1987 stage performance and the Disney produced movie adaptation were very similar, but this is not the case for some of the other notable scenes and details. In part two of the play, Rapunzel gets stepped on by the lady giant, but in the movie Rapunzel goes with the prince and away from the witch. The second Agony scene was also left out in the movie. This scene was very key into understanding both of the prince’s and how they actually feel about their princesses. In the second part of the play the steward kills Jack’s mom buy hitting her in the head with his staff, but in they movie the steward just pushes her down. Not only were some scenes done differently or just completely left out, the casting for the movie could have been different as well.

The cast for the film adaptation certainly could have been done differently.

The baker could have been recasted, the baker from the play really played the role exceptionally better than the baker from the movie. For instance, I felt that the baker really seemed like the fit for the role. Maybe the it was because the baker was a british and the accent threw me off, but the way he played the part just seemed a little off compared to the original baker. Jack is another character that could have been changed. In the play he is played by an adult but in the movie they could have gone with a teenager to make the role as close to the original as possible. These are not the only reasons why the play was better than the film

adaptation.
Though the movie have really good special effects, the play made the best out of what they had. In terms of special effects, the play was very impressive. On the other hand movie special effects is quite easy nowadays. And not very impressive. I admire how the play’s special effects turned out, it's cool to think that they had to plan all of it out with things that they had. This is why they movie special effects are not as impressive, there is no real thought process behind it.
Though the movie was good, the play was better, because they had a better cast, more impressive special effects, and all the original scenes are there for your viewing pleasure.