What Is The Difference Between The Crucible Play And Movie

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Nicholas Hytner is the director of the film The Crucible. The movie came out November 27, 1996. The time frame in the film is 1953. The film gets more in depth of the Salem witch trial than the play. The Crucible film has more star reviews from professionals and random people than the play itself does.
The Crucible film showed more depth about the Salem witch trials. While one reads the play, they can easily get lost. In the film, one can see everything that is happening and can follow along with it. “Reverend Parris’ greed for money and houses” is a way of how the movie shows more depth than the play itself. During the film the audience can see how people really got treated and how serious it was when one got accused of witchcraft. Considering the fact that the play was four acts long, one will be more prone to get lost. …show more content…

The IMDb is a website with registered users that can rate the film on how they specifically feel. The IMDb calculates all the users ratings into one to making a single rating. The play, The Crucible, has a star rating of three out of five stars (Goodreads). Goodreads is the world’s largest website for readers and book recommendations.
In the play, the ending could be confusing for one to understand. At the end of the play it states “Proctor is left alone, amazed, in terror. He takes up his lantern and slowly exits”(The Crucible Page 111). To one they could think that he’s just exitting that scene. In the film Nicholas Hytner makes it clear that at the end of the film Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey, and John Proctor all get hung for being accused of witchcraft. John Proctor decided not to confess up because he couldn’t give up the only thing he had left, his

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