Film and Shakespeare
Film and Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing There is more to Shakespeare comedy than meets the eye. Discuss how well you think the comedy 'Much Ado about Nothing' translates from text to screen.Over the years Shakespeare has ventured many different stories in order to perform them in view of a live audience. One of his many wonderful plays which appeared to be successful would be 'Much ado about nothing', a romantic comedy which was written about 1598/99. In the majority of Shakespeare's comedy's, he would take a serious issue and simply laugh at it. It would appear to be a simple misunderstanding rather than an issue to the audience, therefore they would be content in their viewing.The pattern of Shakespeare comedy's appeared to be of one action triggering a sequence of events and almost misleading the story in another direction. It was a genre, which needed full interpretation of it's meaning and therefore meanings were repeated through the play in order to keep the audience in understanding. Characters within the plays were often presented in a way in which society would accept, however gradually throughout the play it was Shakespeare's routine to let they're masks slip just to catch a glimpse o
'Much ado about nothing' is solely based on love and how irrational the passion can make us. The play was set in Messina with panoramic shots of the house and surrounding countryside. The second verse of the poem 'sigh no more ditties, sigh no . The music changes to a dull but cautious tone and the character stands separate from the others dressed in black. It is said that Shakespeare believes that love makes us irrational and almost foolish, this is amplified throughout the majority of Shakespeare's work. Close-ups, creative backlighting, dissolve and montage effects brought out emotions and cuts between sequences intensified contrasts. Beatrice is given an important poem to read and in a way it gives her character immediate identity, Beatrice (played by Emma Thompson) uses this well through out the film. The pause used in between Don John's meeting with Leonato and the girls was very effective and added intense to Don John's character. Branagh does well to have the opening poem written across the screen in text, to remind the viewer of what they are about to encounter, it shows that Branagh has used Shakespeare's text literally by simply lifting it of the book and inserting it on to the screen. Although we are drawn to the visual style of the movie, it is always hard to capture the atmosphere in a way that live performances to in the theatre but Branagh does well to retain this ambience throughout his movie, one scene in particular which created very realistic and live feeling would be the introduction of Don John where we as viewers are presented with an almost 'pantomime' style situation.
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