Much Ado About Nothing: Book Vs Movie

Much Ado About Nothing has a stereotypical romantic storyline where two of the characters are meant to be together, but something tragic happens preventing them to. This is very well shown in the 1993 movie version of Much Ado, but the 2012 play version, it ends up being quite different. It’s hysterical. The differences in the two versions play a huge role of making Shakespeare more relevant in later years.
In the movie version of Much Ado the director made it very clear that he wanted to keep the romance theme as the storyline has. Background music played in the movie or played by Balthasar is very subtle. Also, the clothing in the movie is mostly white and simple to give the time period of 1500’s and to show that the people were still innocent.

Characters played a huge part in keeping the movie a romance as well because they were immensely soft and well kept together. Claudio is an example as he didn’t act as childish over Hero’s death.
The play is a completely different story even though it has the same storyline.

The director shows that Shakespeare can be relevant to the audience with the differences it has from the movie. As soon as the play starts the characters tend to be all up in the audience's business. With Beatrice’s laugh to seductive music. The choice of clothing also adds to the pop factor that the play gives off. Choices from the director are like this to give the time frame of this version which is in the 1980’s. Not only does it give it time frame, but it also gives relevance to the viewers. This relevance makes the play more enjoyable for the audience because they can relate to it more than they could watching the movie version. After Hero dies, Claudio over drinks and puts a gun to his head which is something a guy is more likely to do after his “true love” dies. Just the fact that it is a play where they can't have retakes makes it that much more enjoyable and personal.
The relevance that Shakespeare gets in this clashing later version is very important as it can impact the understanding or appreciation one has on the material. It shows that even though these two different directed Much Ado About Nothing versions have the same storyline they can end up being completely unalike in themes. It also gives both sides that Shakespeare is or is not very relevant while making his plays. In the 1993 movie version is could leave the viewer in tears. Just like the movie version the play could also leave the audience in tears, but of

joy.
Since the play was the later published with many famous British actors I believe it threw Shakespeare way up on the scale of being relevant still to this day.