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Comparative Essay: 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'
Film 106
23 November 2011
Comparative Essay: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on a popular 1998 film by the same title. The storyline is about two conmen, (1) Lawrence Jameson who is played by Patrick McBride and (2) Freddy Benson who is played by Tom Andrew/Reed Willard, living on the French Riviera. Now Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money by pretending he is prince of a small country that doesn’t exist and his throne was stolen from him. Whereas Freddy on the other hand is an American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother who needs an expensive operation. One day they meet on the train, but soon find out that the small French town they live in isn't big enough to support two conmen. Since neither one want to leave they decide to setup a challenge. They agree that the first …show more content…
Intellectually I was affected because I felt like I had to focus a lot more on the play than the film because I was only going to see it once on preview night and then have to finish watching the movie to then have to write this comparative essay. It was much harder to grasp since I hadn’t finished watching one or the other first. Emotionally I found that both the actress of Christine Colgate in the play and Janet Colgate in the movie played their roles very well because I wasn’t able to predict that she was also a conmen until the very near end of the movie and the play. Same with Freddy Benson I felt he did a very good job trying to get the Jackal’s sympathy. Lawrence I wasn’t very touched by although that wasn’t really his role. I found him to be much more comedic because he would almost set up the domino effect of laughter. I believe this affected the play and the movie in a very positive way because it was very
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