The Crucible Play Vs Movie Essay

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Comparing the play: The Crucible and the film based off it, it’s found that they are very similar to one another. Like all book to movie transitions, there were a couple places where things didn’t line up, that the movie was doing something different fromt the book/play. Although there are a few differences between the movie and the play, to movie does a respectable job of recreating the play.
Differences are lacking when comparing the play and the movie, but a couple small one can be noticed. For example, the movie cut a few characters lines short, and changes the lines composition a bit to make the dialogue and storyline easier to understand. This is most apparently seen when looking at Chever. He was far more prominent in the play, acting …show more content…

The play delivers a more toned back version of the story, more calm and relaxed, while the movies delivery is a hard hitting, dramatic one. Scene the play is more complex than its movie counterpart, it can be harder to get a grasp on the story and fully understand everything that is happening, and which character is doing what. The movie offers a clearer view of what is going on. Being able to recognize characters and locations, plus all of the dialogue that was present in the play, the movie is much more simplified, which does not negatively affect the story, but rather simply helps the viewer understand the plot, and what is currently happening in the story.
The way the opening of the story in the play and in the movie also differ slightly. It opens around the same premence: the group of girls dancing in the woods.The movie opens on the girls leaving to go dance and shows how is all plays out, showing the whole affair. The play on the other hand, starts when the dancing in the woods has already taken place and is explained to the reader through flashbacks and the girls talking about what they had

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