Comparing The Importance of Being Earnest Films from 1952 and 2002
This essay is comparing the 1952 film and the 2002 film, ‘The
Importance of being Earnest’. This was first a play written in 1895,
by Oscar Wilde. This essay is going to express and show the
differences and similarities between the two films, using the play
script as a reference.
‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is about two handsome men, who go
bunburying. Bunburying is when people make things up, for their
convenience, and to get out and not be questioned. Jack and Algy do
this to be with the girls they love, the even lie about their names.
Earnest means to be truthful, to show your true feelings, and think
about the future actions, to be serious, this is why it is important
to be Earnest. But this is reverse psychology, as no one is serious in
the films.
The film ‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is a comedy or romance. The
film catches yours interest, with a good first scene. Also when Jack
and Algy pretend to be different people ‘Bunburying’, and it is hard
to keep up, this is very funny and you want to find out what will
happen. The second film starts with Algy being chased, making him seem
mysterious, and so you want to watch and find out why.
The films vary from the play, although some bits have been added in,
and taken out, to make the film shorter. In the 2002 film a lot more
new scenes have been added in. In the latest film, in 2002, Aunt
Augusta checks ‘Jacks’ name, and once again ‘Jack is not very Earnest.
The first film was a bit disappointing, due to the fact it missed out
a funny line, and said it very slowly; When Lady Bracknell is talking
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...ch as; the scene on the balcony, when Jack and Algy pretended
to like each other, to cecily and the others. After strangling each
other. There are also some close ups, but not as many as in the first
film. The first film is very stationary, but obviously being filmed in
side, there was not as much space for longer shots.
In conclusion, I feel that each film was good in different ways. I
personally preferred the 2002 film, as it was ‘up-to-date’ and I could
understand more of it, and I found it rather funny. But I also like
the first film, as Edith Evans (Lady Bracknell) was very funny, and
the film had some hilarious scenes in. I think both films are worth
watching and the older version is more for adults, whereas the younger
film is more for teenagers or young adults. I would class both films,
as a ‘film to watch’.
I read the book The Outsiders and watched the movie the West Side Story, they had many similarities but they also had their differences. I enjoyed both the book and the movie they were very well written. I will tell compare and contrast the book and the movie.
Everyone always says the story is always better than the movie, let’s say it’s always the truth. ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a theatrical play about two men Jack and Algy. Jack is a man from the country who lies saying his name is earnest when he goes into the city, he is very in love with Algy’s cousin Gwendolen. Lady Bracknell is Gwendolen’s mothers who very much does not like jack what so ever. Algy is a man in very much debt who ends up falling in love with Jacks ward Cecily, he also has some lies about who is. The whole point of lying about who they both are was to get away from the everyday lives they lived and not worry about being found out. In 2002 this famous play was turned into a movie, sadly though a lot of scenes were
In the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the scenes are cut a lot shorter than in the book. For
The Importance of Being Earnest film produced in 2002 compares to the original version reveal different changes. The change modify the motion which the author would like to transmit in the original document. The important changes are the modification of some stage of direction. The actors changed some stages of direction and created their own. The second change is skipping of some sequences. The actor of the film choose to ignore some sequences which were in the original version. Moreover, the actors added some stages which were not in the preview version. The other point is the incapacity of transmitting all the motion which we can perceive in the reading. Finally, the actors did not show enthusiasm in their performance as we can feel it in
The second scene of the film opens up to Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield drivi...
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The heroes, heroines and villains portrayed in the two versions of the film were drawn quite differently.
scenes from the film; this is due to a number of reasons. The main one
followed by close. The film is mostly shot with a closed frame, but there ar...
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(or some footage has been actualized), the composer is shown an unpolished "rough cut" of
Have you ever wondered about a “perfect” world? What if the world wasn’t so “perfect” after all? Jonas lives in a “perfect” world but wants to get out. Truman lives in a “perfect” worls also, and wants to escape too. Both doesn’t understand what is going on because there worlds control everything, but then the crushing truth comes out. You’ll now find out the simularites of the giver and the truman show.
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out of the movie. He did this to shorten the movie and also to make it
...aid in the book that the maid died of exhaustion from running so it must have been a little bit larger than how the movie shot it. I pictured all of the characters differently but that is just personal opinions and everyone would have those.