In any Hollywood adaptation of a written work, one can only expect to find major differences from the original story. Unsurprisingly, the Hollywood adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape is no different. However, there are a handful of similarities between the two works from the central theme of the story to the major characters. Specifically, class struggle is prominent throughout both the film and the play, and the major characters of buffoonish Yank (or rather, Hank), Mildred, Paddy, and Long are all present. Furthermore, the crucial scene of Mildred calling Yank a “hairy ape” in the stokehold and Yank’s questioning of his identity and eventual arrest also make an appearance. However, the similarities end there, as the differences …show more content…
In their place, however, is an introduction of a useless love triangle between Mildred, the character of Helen, and the second engineer, Tony. While these changes do not drastically change the overall story, there is one change in the film that does—the shift of focus from Yank’s identity crisis to what is almost an obsession to enact revenge on Mildred. In the play, Mildred’s insult leads to Yank’s downhill spiral where he begins to question his identity and place in the world. Ultimately, Yank identifies with an ape at the end of the play, where he essentially loses touch with reality. However, in the film, this crisis is downplayed, and Mildred’s insult instead leads to Yank’s desire to enact revenge on her. As a result, the film and the play present viewers with two very storylines that diverge after Mildred delivers her …show more content…
In the original play, there are only two scenes where Yank makes contact with the upper class—first when Mildred is in the stokehold and the second when Yank is on 5th Avenue. These two scenes only offer a glimpse into the tension between the two classes: through the insult Mildred says and the fact that the upper class bluntly ignore Yank. However, as Dr. Casale had mentioned, the idea of the middle class is also present in the film. As a result, viewers are not only able to see the class struggle between the lower and upper classes, but also between the middle and both the upper and lower classes. Consequently, there are more examples of tension between the different classes as seen by Mildred’s treatment of Helen, the doorman’s treatment of Yank, Tony’s treatment of Mildred, just to name a few. Perhaps one of the most compelling images the film has to offer in reference to class struggle, however, is the fact that Yank has the whistle in his possession at the end of the film. Earlier in the film, the engineers (who are in a higher social class) are ordering around Yank and the other men in the stokehold via their whistles. The fact that Yank now has this whistle, and blows it as he sees fit, symbolically shows that he now has the power despite still being from the lower class. This
For example, In the end of Salem Falls, Gillian’s actions based upon Jealousy, resulted in Jack being put in jail. However, Jodi Picoult had Gillian have a change of heart towards the end of the movie, thus letting her redeem herself; by freeing Jack of his imprisonment, making amends. Unlike The Crucible, the audience is left feeling happy knowing that everything went well in the end for Jack. However, In the end of The Crucible, Abby’s Character remains the same throughout the play. Unlike Gillian, Abby's actions based upon jealousy resulted in the death of many innocent people in her town.
The play begins off with George and Lennie setting camp near a river and discussing about working at a ranch. George Miller, played by Cameron Stark, begins the play with a strong start. He successfully articulates his voice loudly and clearly for the audience to understand. The actor stays very enthusiastic in the tone of his voice which convinces the audience of George’s emotions. Stark expresses the emotion, anger, very well by yelling and
Then in the movie they got to a place that looks like a sewer or the poorer part of town. There is a family who are very poor, barely enough to eat. Then the spirit takes him to the grave. In the play the part about the poor family doesn’t happen in the play. The either made up that part or completely skipped
The way the movie and the play start is different. In the movie, we see the girls and Tituba dancing in the woods before Betty and Ruth get sick. During the movie, it shows Reverend Hale when he goes and checks on Ruth. The movie shows all of the girls getting questioned all at the same time in the church.
The idea that rich white people “{…[coming] up to Harlem spendin’ forty or fifty bucks in the night clubs and speakeasies and don’t care nothin’ bout you and me out here in the street, do they?”(Hughes 254). Hughes does this to allow the narrator to have a common agreement with the other African American man. To sum up, by Hughes creating the tone in the way the characters speak to one another, it allow them to have connection, because the angry they both fault. Or sort of understanding, which in terms made the narrator, feel as if him and the other African American man were in this together, although the African American man had a motive of his
They all felt personally victimized by Regina George, who is a major symbol for the high class in the conflict theory. It’s common sense to want to be treated with equality, because in the end they are all human. Another thing with conflict theory is lower class felt they were getting an unfair treatment from the plastics, and it ultimately leads to chaos and a gigantic disturbance in the nice life of a bourgeoisie. This is an ongoing cycle of consisting battle between the ones with all the power and those without a say in the world. Overall while watching conflict theory helped me better understand how and why events in this movie happened.
Lion, directed by Garth Davis, is a compelling interpretation of a remarkable true story of Saroo Brierley, lost as a child and reunited with his family 25 years later. Throughout Davis explores the unique circumstances under which Saroo is separated and reconnected with his family and his journey along the way. At some points of the film, I was confronted by how Saroo, a five-year-old boy, expertely navigates, with great instinct and genuine innocence, through an extended, yet life threatening ride. To put it in other words, Lion is a journey that grabs you entirely; whether you want it or not, and you are involved in each and every scene. I instantly fell in love with the connection and relationship between Saroo and his older brother
Middle class would be Cady before she became a “Plastic” and low class would be Damian and Janis and the rest of the school. In the eyes of “The Plastics” everyone is low class and they are the only upper class. According to Jeff Manza, author of The Sociology Pproject 2.0: introducing the sociological imagination conflict theory is “a type of social theory that emerged out of dissatisfaction with structural functionalism and held that all societies are characterized by conflicts that arise from the uneven distribution of power and wealth between groups” (Manza, 2016). Bullies are not always at the top of the class chain but they often feel the need to put other lower them. Bullies often feel stronger and tougher when they are on top
Three characters that are affected by the simplistic technologically advanced society the novel takes place in are Mildred, Fabre, and Clarisse. Mildred’s alienation can be seen through her failing relationship with her husband, Guy Montag. Their relationship is deprived of love, and is also very shallow and materialistic as Mildred ends up guilting Guy into spoiling her. This can be seen when she says to him, “It’ll be more even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed … It’s only two thousand dollars.”
The movies that I chose to compare are “The Conjuring” release on 2013 July and “Annabelle” release on 2014 October. “The Conjuring” is directed by James Wan starred by Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor whereas “Annabelle” is directed by John R. Leonetti starred by Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton and Alfre Woodard. Even though both of these movies start with the same opening scene, two young women and a young man in 1968 are telling Ed and Lorraine Warren whom are paranormal investigators about their experiences with a doll called Annabelle they believe to be haunted, the rest of the story lines of these two movies have many different points. The first difference is the beginning of mystery. In “The Conjuring”, a couple
To summarize this essay, there are several points that highlight differences between the two films, yet the overall context of the film remains the same. One common theme that tends to drive the force between the reasoning in why the two films have varying aspects is because they were made for slightly different audiences at different times in society. Though both versions of the movie have small portions that vary from one another, the main emphasis is the same and both versions are loved by the
The movie ties in more brutality and violence to appeal to a modern audience that demands intense appeal to the senses. The play uses the simplicity of setting elements such as the balcony and common acting techniques to communicate Shakespear’s original message. Given the time period of the text, Shakepear’s use of these strategies are as modern as those unique techniques used in the movie. The movie and the play attract their audiences based on what appeals to them. Most importantly, both deliver the message to the audience that “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her
The rigid class system in Middle Age Europe was a primary factor that determined the course of events. In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, there are underlying issues throughout the plot involving classes of the characters, and their roles within their class. While for the time period, it was common for those in lower classes to be looked down upon, Shakespeare uses many mediums to slyly challenge this idea. Throughout the play, Shakespeare makes the class differences obvious, yet creates certain character dynamics which challenge preconceptions. Twelfth Night is centered around a distinct and rigid class system, yet Shakespeare comments on its negative impacts, and yearns for a more fluid system, in order to create a more just and fair world.
One of the best usage of sound design as a tool of storytelling has to be in the first sequence of The Exorcist. As a horror movie, which as a genre builds itself on the vicarious experience it provides, uses more complex patterns of sound design templates to enhance the adventure of watching the movie. Throughout the first scene, Ken Nagle lays what the audience will be the experiencing through the duration of the movie with sound design; the duel between good and evil. The Exorcist’s first sequence, the audience can hear the digging sound of the workers, which resembles the heart pounding.
The chronological structure also makes the audience aware of Blanche’s spiral into a destruction which is tragic and inevitable. The plot of the play is advanced