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Based on fairy tales of the same name both The Red Shoes and The Black Swan embrace the surreal nature of their stories in unique ways, while enveloping themselves in the unique obsession of the ballet world and its demanding nature. The Red Shoes is about and upon coming ballet dancer (Moria Shearer), suddenly thrust into the limelight by (Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov) to be the lead in a new Ballet simply titled The Red Shoes. A conflict between her passion and the possibility of human love begins when she begins to fall for the show's composer (Marius Goring as Julian Craster). The Red Shoes is a brightly colored Technicolor marvel that has a surprising number of special effects. Most of which take place in the ballet scenes. Here the audience not only sees the ballet but how Vicky views the play in her mind, when Craster and Lermontov both appear on the stage they are …show more content…
Nina can master the White Swans purity and grace. The black swan gives her trouble and requires a certain sensuality and seductiveness that Nina can seem to bring up from within herself. Her obsessive and controlling director (Vincent Cassel as Thomas Leroy) begins to push her past her limit, not sure if she will be able to pull of the Black Swans dance. Things begin to unravel for Nina when a new dancer (Mila Kunis as Lily) enters the scene and seems perfect for the part. The film comes to a head when Nina stabs herself under the belief that she has stabbed Lily. The Black Swan is a dark muted film that digs into some uncomfortable body horror elements. Some which involve Nina pulling off some of her skin, or the bone breaking transformation of Nina into a swan. Nina’s paranoias and psyche seem to manifest themselves in a darker way than Vicky of the Red
In the play, red was used to accent everything from the characters’ costumes to elements in the background, and the blood. Although red was heavily used, there was a difference in the shades of red throughout the play. For example, the curtain that draped Johanna’s window, was a bright red, while the on-stage blood was a deeper red. There was also a noticeable red-orange lighting casted over the stage during intense turning points in the play. In the film, the color did serve an important role, but it did not heavily influence the body of work, like in the play. Aside from Mrs. Lovett’s clothing in the film, the color showed up mainly during the scenes were blood was needed. The blood was darkened, watery and oozed. This darkened mess, was portrayed in this way in order to emphasize the deaths in the movie, which made each scene a little more
It allowed the audience to view the body of a dancer or person in ways never portrayed before onstage as well as using movement to show larger ideas of social change. Fosse took his movement in his work to a more fantasized state through his perfectionist techniques, whereas Robbins created a heightened realism in his movement. Fosse, inspired by vaudeville, incorporates derbies and gloves as an allusion to hiding from the society we currently live in. Robbins takes society as it is and tries to find solutions to society's problems in the given moment they take place in. Both use emotions as actions as a commonality to approach their work. The core of Robbin’s work is shown in the descriptions of the action in each ballet. One can picture exactly what the dancers are doing and what makes this action unique. Fosse did this by making every movement so intense in detail that the dancer was forced into the sharpness of Fosse’s choreography. Robbins made actions and emotional intentions, his main goal for his performers as he believed in the actions in storytelling above all else. Robbin’s training at Stella Adler allowed him to see the perspective of the actor’s intentions more clearly than that of Fosse and also gained inspiration of bold and expressive movements from the teachings of Martha Graham. Stella Adler taught that “growth as an actor and
In literature, characters often confront challenges and due to their misconceptions of reality these challenges become complicated by external factors, which ultimately lead to tragic results. Willy, from the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Holden, from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Macbeth, from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, live with false perceptions of life and struggle through life's challenges. Willy struggles with the challenges of his life by lying, causing him to suffer because of how he defines success. Holden is upset with the world and tries to become a savior to future generations. While Macbeth's ambitions dominates his life resulting in an inflated ego transforming him from an honorable soldier into a crazed tyrant. When faced with challenges, these characters fight to be who they imagine they are, yet due to conflicts they ultimately fail.
There was a common saying, “Behind every great man there's a great woman”. The men, Macbeth and Winston Smith in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and George Orwell’s 1984 may not be considered as the “great man” however, both Lady Macbeth and Julia are good examples that can be presented as the “great woman” behind the men. Both Lady Macbeth and Julia do an excellent job of pretending to be someone who they are not, they are not only affecting the men in their lives to rethink their previous position but also have a bad ending accompanied with physical and psychological issues.
Through hundreds of productions of The Nutcracker, that have thrilled several crowds, audiences have experienced the fear from oversized mice and the thrill of the Land of Sweets. Written by Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker is danced around Christmas annually. The Nutcracker was inspired by and based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (“The Story of the Nutcracker Ballet”). A girl named Clara receives a nutcracker as a Christmas present who comes to life to fight the Mouse King. Clara journeys through the Land of Sweets as audiences are mesmerized by the dancers with the extravagant, flamboyant, exaggerated, and bizarre costumes, props, and heavy make-up perform the famous piece. But why has this ballet maintained its mass appeal since its first performance in 1892? Perhaps it is because in an effort to outstage previous performances, directors continue to integrate elements of expressionism like plot distortion and stylized acting to create a fantasy world.
The theatre is full of young men and women. The gas lanterns dimly light the room and the silhouette of a figure can be seen in the shadows of the stage. As she emerges, she is like a dream: a tall, elegant body with a form fitting bodice and tutu. She is entrancing on her tiny pointe shoes as she floats across the stage. Love and passion fill the air as she moves in such a way that is almost magical. The Romantic Ballet Period introduced the aspects of theme, costume, and new technique to the dance world and its influences are still seen in contemporary works in ballet.
In Black Swan, a ballet dancer named Nina is casted to play both the White Swan and the Black Swan in the famous ballet titled Swan Lake. In the well-known opera, a princess is turned into a White Swan, who falls in love with a prince but then commits suicide when she finds out that the prince confessed his love to the Black Swan. In the movie Black Swan, Nina has to deal with the challenges that arise from trying to accurately portray both characters whom are completely opposite. It is easy for Nina to be the White Swan. She is innocent and controlled. However, it was very hard for her to become the dark, seductive, and mysterious Black Swan. To fully become this character, Nina has to deal with the struggles of becoming the opposite of who she really is. This results in many hallucinations that involve harming herself. She also starts to imagine things that are not really happening. Eventually, Nina has psychotic episodes when she truly becomes the Black Swan. Whenever she takes a step into her transformation, she has hallucinations such as having black feathers come out of her skin. It also seems as if Nina is obsessed with perfection because she even tries to kill herself. The true reality is not what she sees because she is so trapped in the world of Swan Lake.
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth tells the story of a general who commits regicide in order to become king. Early in the play, Macbeth is conflicted as to weather or not he wants to kill his kinsman the king. In the first two acts Macbeth is not portrayed as a ruthless killer; he is a sympathetic character who succumbs to the provocation of his wife and a prophecy foretold by three mysterious witches. In contrast, Lady Macbeth is a manipulative, immoral woman. Her ambition is so strong that she is willing to do anything to see her husband succeed. However, in the third act things begin to change. The death of the king and lord and lady Macbeth’s rise to power catalyze profound transformation in their personalities.
Many pieces of literature give different perspectives and change over time. Some may incorporate the same characters along with the same concept, but some contain opposite perspectives of the stories. Cinderella has two different films that tell the same story but they contain different concepts throughout the films. While the 1950’s version of Cinderella does not reveal Cinderella’s mother, the 2015 film version reveals her mother and makes the step sisters more attractive
The Black Swan was originally a play, created into a film in 2010. Nina is part of the New York City ballet company. She is a very hard working and dedicated ballerina whose life consists mainly of ballet practice, and rarely any fun. She has been chosen to play the role of the black swan in the upcoming performance Swan Lake. Although Nina was the directors first choice, she begins to develop a bit of competition with another dancer in the company, Lily. They go back and forth with being friends, then competing against one another. The idea of the black swan requires someone to play both the white and black swan components of the piece. One being portrayed with innocence and grace, and the other with a darker side of sensuality. Viewers begin
...d rushes to see Odette. He apologizes to Odette. Odette tells him she has no choice but to kill herself, and he decides that he cannot live without her and they jump into the lake together. Cinderella is the story of a girl whose father died, and her stepmother made her into a servant. The prince is throwing a ball, and Ella wishes to go to it. A fairy godmother appears and makes Ella’s rags into a beautiful ball gown, and gives her glass slippers. She goes to the ball and dances with the prince, but she must leave before the clock strikes midnight or until her gown will turn back into rags. As she is leaving, she loses a shoe. The prince goes through the city looking for her, sizing the shoe on each girl. Cinderella steps up and says that she was the girl, she tries on the shoe and it fits perfectly. Cinderella and the prince end up getting married.
Speed limit signs are posted on every road in this country, and 80% of car crashes in the US involve a lack of adherence to the speed limit, but most drivers, teens included, don’t find them to be important. More often than not, speed limits are seen as “guidelines” rather than rules. This mistake, although common, can mean the difference between life and death.
Weiten, 2001). In the scene where Nina meets with Thomas to ask for the part of the Swan Queen, Nina admits that she obsesses over every dance move in an effort to achieve perfection. She says that she “just want[s] to be perfect”, which could highlight the fact she strives to live up to the high standards which have been imposed on her from others. Boeree (2006) emphasises that, because these standards stem from external elements, they are not always in line with the organismic valuing process and individuals often find these expectations unattainable (page 5). Nina struggles to meet these conditions, she practices the dance routine relentlessly and even enters into dangerous, self-harming behaviour in an attempt to maintain the level of perfection she feels is expected of her from those around her. Nina displays bulimic and anorexic behaviour, and scratches herself to the point of bleeding throughout the
However, in this ballet concert, the choreographer had designed the scenes to be more like a comedy. The movement of the sisters are more amusing than cruel. For example, when they pulled each other for being eager to dance with the prince, or when they tried to hurt and bully the Cinderella, these movements are not that cruel but amusing. Even the stepmother was drunk and danced comically in the prom scene. Moreover, the movements of all the girls who wanted their feet to fit in to the ballet shoe which Cinderella had dropped in the prom are also very funny. These kinds of design successfully made the audience laugh out loud and without hurting the hearts of the little girls who went to see the performance with their