Week Thirteen

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Blog Two

Once you've identified the production(s) you watched, write an entry that compares the experience of reading the play with the experience of watching the play. Offer insight into differences. These might be overt differences that a director made or they might be differences in how you perceived something--a character, the setting, the costuming--and how the director perceived something. 

I watched the movie "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that was produced in 1999 and was directed by Michael Hoffman. http://putlocker.bz/watch-a-midsummer-nights-dream-online-free-putlocker.html

Many people ask the question, do you like the book or the movie better? I am one of those people that like which ever one I observe first. For this activity I like the reading of the story better then the movie.The book is more elaborate and to the point of what is happening to the characters. The movie is more concerned with the setting and customs then the actual story line its self. Unlike the movie, the reading does not have the imagery or songs that the audience gets to see; however, the audience instead gets to have an imagination and see what the story would look like. I feel with the story using the readers imagination is better with this piece of writing; where as, during the movie the audience will focus more on the props and images then actually dissecting the dialogue. In the reading, the reader is able to choose how to interrupt the play or who is the real villain and victim. In the movie, I feel that all the characters are the villains and victims.