Oedipus The King Play Vs Movie

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The film is fairly close to that of the play. The main reason for the differences between the movie, "Oedipus Rex" and the play "Oedipus the King" are mainly because of the simple fact that you are able to actually see it happening in the movie. Also because they had to cut down the dialogue for the movie because the play’s dialogue was very long, and if they hadn’t have shortened it, then it would have been very long. The play, of course, had much more dialogue that that of the movie.

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