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    performance such as 4 Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Awards. He made his entrance portraying Tommy Boatwright in the play The Normal Heart in the year 2011. Parson received a Drama Desk Award nomination. Parsons repeated the part in the film adaptation of the play. He has received his 17th Emmy nomination‚ this time in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries of a Movie.

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    account? Shakespeare’s famous play‚ Hamlet exemplifies what a tragedy genre is and is a very popular play that has been studied since 1604 ("Hamlet"). In this play that takes place in the Elizabethan era‚ Hamlet discovers that his uncle‚ Claudius‚ murders his father in his sleep‚ by pouring poison in his ear‚ all this information is said to Hamlet through the ghost of his father. Every good child who respects their parents‚ will seek to avenge for them‚ like Hamlet‚ they will develop a hatred towards

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    Hamlet Film Evaluation Look at me‚ woman! Hamlet’s reoccurring theme of male superiority is displayed clearly in Act 3 scene 4‚ the closet scene. In Kenneth Branaugh’s version of Hamlet‚ the positioning of Gertrude verse Hamlet‚ eye contact‚ and tone gave the audience a clear sense that Hamlet was in control of the scene. It was ironic how the scene played out. Typically Gertrude‚ who is his mother‚ the queen‚ and a respectable women‚ would naturally have superiority over Hamlet. The way the

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    Approaches to Drama: Portfolio Assignment 1 Film Drama and Review Writing: Hamlet on film Gregory Doran (dir.)‚ Hamlet (2009). [RSC production on film; David Tennant as Hamlet] Gregory Doran’s adaption of Hamlet‚ puts a modern-spin on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Filled with scheming‚ betrayal‚ violence‚ and intrigue‚ the cast of talented actors including David Tennant (Hamlet)‚ Patrick Stewart (Claudius)‚ Penny Downie (Gertrude) and Oliver Ford Davies (Polonius) provide a refreshing

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    Music plays an important role in every film‚ but especially novel to film adaptations. Film Composers must take extra care in scoring these movies because the music fills in the gaps and gives us more insight into the plot. In film adaptations‚ music is often used to fill us in on what we may have missed from reading the novel. Music adds overall cohesion in these films that would otherwise seem like they were missing something. The music can be used as an insight into characters thoughts‚ emotions

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    Brennan Walsh Franco Zeffirelli’s version Hamlet was very faced paced and intense. The characters as a whole were more thrilling due to the fact that today’s audience demands constant intensity and action. It was a good adaptation and although I am not a historian it seemed historically accurate for the most part. The language was spoken delicately and precise by all the actors. The scenes were correct for the most part‚ but some things such as Shakespeare’s famous speech‚ “To be or not to be

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    at that time‚ been played by 102 actors in film adaptations (Leitch‚ 207). Since 2007‚ this number has increased due to publication of films such as The Frankenstein Theory (2013) and I‚ Frankenstein (2014). Such adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein date back as far as 1823 with the first theater production‚ Presumption (Florescu 151) and the first film version in 1910 by J. Searle Dawley. Showing that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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    Texts reflect their contexts. Is this true of Shakespeare’s Othello and Sax’s film Othello? (700-800 words). Texts reflect their contexts and this is evident in both William Shakespeare’s Othello and Geoffrey Sax’s film Othello. This reflection is established through the two ideas of racism and the inequality between genders. The context of a text plays an essential role as it is the way in which the composers convey their message and this is done effectively as both composers are conveying an important

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    QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT | Adaptations | A comparison of the salt water crocodile and fresh water crocodile | | | 2/27/2012 | | Figure 1 – Saltwater Crocodile Figure 2 – Freshwater Crocodile Subject: SCX101B School: Name: Completed: 12/03/12 I declare that the work submitted is my own with no part written/produced for me by any other person. I have acknowledged the people who have provided assistance and the materials referred to in developing my ideas have been acknowledged

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    William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Hamlet basically share the same characters and story. However‚ in Shakespeare’s ghost scenes‚ Zeffirelli uses narrative and film techniques to create a kind of suspenseful atmosphere and to cause feelings of compassion for Hamlet. In the film‚ Zeffirelli makes some changes in the narrative techniques‚ like act 1 of the play for example‚ by rearranging the plays story line‚ like adding to the settings of each scene‚ and not having

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