“I was raised to be charming, not sincere.” This is a famous line from the play and movie Into The Woods. The production follows a baker and his wife, and the characters from Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding Hood. The play Into The Woods was much better than the movie. The play was done by Stephen Sondheim. The new movie of Into The Woods is a Disney production. There is a more extensive plot, better casting, and better costumes in the play. The movie Into The Woods cut out multiple plot points from the original. One of the main scenes that were cut was the “Agony” reprise. In the play, the reprise is about the princes falling in love with new princesses. This is a key point in the play; it makes the princes …show more content…
With the baker the actor chosen in the play was a very talented singer and presented the part very well. In the movie the baker is played by James Corden, a well known comedian. Because he is known mainly for comedy, he seemed to make the role feel lighter and less serious. They also changed the age of Jack from being a teenager to being a preteen. Even though Jack seems to act this age in the play and it would make sense for him to be younger in the movie, this diminishes Jack’s humor throughout the production. When Jack acts immature in the play, it makes him funny, while in the movie Jack not being able to remember if his cow is a boy or a girl just makes sense since he is so young. Another example is the witch, who was originally played by Bernadette Peters. This actor’s voice is higher and shrill, which fits the typical characteristics of a witch much better than Meryl Streep’s version, which is deeper. The witch’s costume also seems to fit her character much better in the …show more content…
In the play, the witch’s costume includes a black dress, a gray wig, and multiple layers of prosthetic makeup. Not only is the witch’s costume from before the curse is broken better in the original, the costume change is also much more effective in the play. The costume goes from black to a light pink and purple color. This is a much more dramatic change compared to the transformation in the movie. In the Into The Woods movie, the witch costume starts out as a ratted dark blue dress and later changes into a fancy lighter blue dress. This costume may look realistic, but the drastic costume change in the play makes it more believable that Rapunzel would not recognize the woman that raised her. The special effects with the evil stepsisters in the play is also more effective. In the movie, the stepmother sings about cutting off their toes and heels, but it is not actually shown. In the play they have a piece of material that actually falls off the stepsisters’ feet. This is a humorous point in the story that offers a break from the seriousness of what is happening around the cast of
...nt witches had very detailed wardrobes. In particular the witch Evillene, who was mean, had a dress similar to the size of a wedding dress made of old and dirty jewels. Glinda the good witch had a dress that was also made of jewels but they were bright and pleasing to the eye opposite of Evillene’s dress.
People often have nicknames to describe details about themselves. Nicknames are not self-created but given to the person from friends or even comrades. In “Into The Lake Of The Woods” By Tim O' Brian, this is the case with John Wade, a former soldier that was nicknamed “Sorcerer”. John Wade is named Sorcerer because of use of magic in his youth and how the men is his squad would feel protected because of his magical powers. As Sorcerer is Wade's alter ego, it seems that it goes on to cost him dearly later in his life. Wade eventually ends up becoming governor of Minnesota and tries to run for U.S Senate. He loses in a landslide victory to his opponent as evidence of the My Lai incident is uncovered. His actions as Sorcerer start to make his life for the worse. It is seen later that Wade's wife, Kathy, is missing and Wade is soon suspected as he remains calm and not involved in the search party. O’Brien does not make it clear on how it Kathy's disappearance occurs but it is clear what happens. Sorcerer arrives again in John Wade as he pulls one final magic trick: to make Kathy disappear....forever.
One more major difference is the Capulet’s tomb. In the book the tomb was said to be dark and dingy. Though in the movie the tomb appeared to be a beautiful almost church like cathedral the tomb had many candles around where Juliet laid. Also she does not lie in a coffin but in a beautiful bed that is encompassed by white sheets.
They are portrayed as having a lack ability to feel positive human emotions such affection. In the song Witches Lament the softer side of her is shown when she sings “Now you know what 's out there in the world. No one can prepare you for the world, Even I. How could I, who loved you as you were? How could I have shielded you from her or them...” As the Witch admits love for Rapunzel, she also enacts penance for Rapunzel’s actions, which is opposite to the classical characterization of a being with nefarious temperament. Oftentimes witches are spoken of as wielding black magic and finding joy in tricking innocent people, which stems from traditional and Christian perspectives of pagan religions. The Salem Witch Trials were a moment in history when this clash of ideology resulted in ideas that contribute to this. Witches still carry negative connotations of evil, which is why we so heavily associate them with Halloween. The white Judeo Christian view of supernatural powers also ties into this as it manifested ideals allowing for the demonization of exactly this. Because of our limited framework, we don’t expect the Witch to have such multifaceted characteristics making her not either bad or good, more so having qualities that are a mix of both. She is allowed a certain freedom not found in prior literary iterations where an evil archetype persists mainly due to
	In Act I Scene I, the opening scene, there are many audio and visual aids used. When all of the girls gather in the woods, mysterious music is playing. As the women get further and further into the forest, the scenery gets darker. When all of the ladies are gathered around the pot, whispering is used to catch the attention of the viewers. As the scene continues one of the persons starts singing a voodoo song. A girl takes a dead chicken and drinks the blood from it. By now everyone is running wild jumping and screaming. One girl feels the urge to get naked and dance around. By now the governor has entered the scene. The maidens see him and recognize him. They all frantically run away, except two. One is screaming because of what she has seen. She claims to not be able to move. The other one is holding her staring off into an endless gaze.
...gently every day and now has found the love of her life. Also, this version of Cinderella is more magical than the original which is more along the lines of today’s fairy tales. The movie Cinderella emphasizes that working hard and being well-behaved will result in an abundance of rewards.
First of all, throughout many cultures, physical characteristics associated with witches ring strangely the same. Anthropologist Philip Mayer says that witches typically bear a physical stigma, like a red eye for example (Mayer 56). In the Brother's Grimm fairytale "Hansel and Gretel," the witch shares this same beastly characteristic. Also, people usually cast off as witches are typically always old women. In Slovakia, Milan Mramuch accused his elderly neighbor of witchcraft and allegedly beat the old woman to death (Whitmore). In "Hansel and Gretel" the witch who lives in the tempting, candy house is an old crippled woman and in the Brother's Grimm fairytale "Snow White," the witch who was an elegant queen, performs her craft disguised as an old peasant woman.
Another scene I believe is important that is missing from the play is the scene where sister James sees Father Flynn putting the white t-shirt back in the locker which is pivotal to the whole premise of the story, without Sister James seeing that she would have never brought it up to Sister Alyosius and we would been left to question Sister Alysosius’s accusations even more.
Based on a series of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (1987) focuses on fairy tale characters such as Cinderella, Jack and Little Red Riding Hood’s wish of life fulfillment. Numerous fairy tales are intertwined with one new tale in attempt to carry the childhood stories into an adult realm without ridding of their child-based sensibilities. (Knapp, 2009.) Little Red’s song, “I know things now” is performed after she escapes the wolf’s belly. It is a reflection song on what she has learnt from the experience of speaking to strangers. Sondheim cleverly integrates musical devises such as key, modulation, pitch, accompaniment, dynamics, motif and rhythm alongside language and literary devices to contribute to the development and growth of the character and story.
Once upon a time, in a cabin far away, it was Halloween night October 31st 1973. A group of friends decided to go to a cabin in the woods to celebrate their favorite holiday together. Busses packed full of people were going to the party that me and Skyler had planned. We invited almost the whole school. Finally after hours of searching for our final destination we arrived. Skyler and I were the first to be at that raggedy torn down cabin. We brought the lights and the beers and the snacks , we spent hours and hours of decorating and setting up finally Andy showed up to help with all the heavy work.
Throughout the entire production, it was evident that the director was trying to bring out the idea of love. That love never ended—it didn’t matter if the Woodsman was made of flesh or tin—his wife always loved him. The concept was emphasized throughout the play, from the time the Woodsman was born until he went in search of his lost wife.
At the beginning of the play, Marley is onstage introducing the story, whereas in the movie, it is only his voice. In the play, Tiny Tim is not shown until the Present Cratchit scene, but in the movie, he appears right when Cratchit comes out of work. In the movie, Scrooge meets the do-gooders on the way to his house, when in the play, they come to him at work. When Scrooge is unlocking his door in the movie, Marley sticks his face through the door knocker, while in the play, the knocker morphs into his face. In the movie, Marley says the spirits will come at one, two, and three, but in the play, he says they will come at one, one, and twelve. Scrooge, as a schoolboy, cries in the play, he reads in the movie. When Past takes him to Fan bringing him away, the play gives a short dialogue after which the Schoolmaster comes and says goodbye. In the movie, it is a much longer dialogue, the Schoolmaster never comes, and you get to see his father. After the party at Fezziwig’s, a scene is inserted where Scrooge and Dick talk. When young Scrooge is talking to his betrothed, in the play it is a short dialogue. The movie has a much longer dialogue in which the play’s lines are scattered throughout. There is an extra scene in the movie about the woman and what she became. Before Present arrives in the play, Marley makes time go forward and backward, but in the movie, time is more
Into the Wild, a novel written by Jon Krakauer, as well as a film directed by Sean Penn, talks about Chris McCandless, a young individual who set out on a journey throughout the Western United States, isolating himself from society, and more importantly, his family. During his travels, he meets a lot of different people, that in a way, change his ways about how he sees the world. There are many characteristics to describe McCandless, such as “naïve”, “adventurous”, and “independent”. In the book, Krakauer described McCandless as “intelligent”, using parts in his book that show McCandless being “intelligent”. While Krakauer thinks of McCandless as being “intelligent”, Penn thinks of McCandless as a more “saintly” type of person.
In society there is a longing for a story to have a nice and neat happy ending. Broadway and the theater originally would give this to their audience, especially in America. Give the audience what the want! They want happy endings that mirror their own values and interpretations of how the world should be and at the end of it should be, “and they all lived happily ever after.” The fairy tale ending is something society hopes, dreams, and strives for since we could listen to our parents read us fairy tales with these sweet stories of finding true love and having to fight the odds to be the Prince or Princess you deserve to be. With Into the Woods, Lapine and Sondheim sought out to explore what could go wrong with “happily ever after.” Effectively leaving the audience with the adage, “be careful what you ask for…”
The other type of witch, which was talked about in an earlier paragraph, is a white witch. These witches do not harm children, or people for that matter, and look to help others. Their spells protect, heal, and bless people or objects, as that is what one did to Hansel and Gretel’s weapons towards the end of the movie. Their appearance is no different than a normal person, as evil magic is what causes the transformation.