In this essay I will be discussing the differences between the play of "The Club" written by David Williamson, and the movie version. I will also be discussing what feelings the viewer or reader will have after seeing the two different types of text.
             It is obvious that many settings were adapted for the movie version of the script. Movies can explore many different areas whereas play's are confined to a stage. Setting change makes for a much more exiting story, which stimulates the viewer with new things to look at. In the play version of "The Club" the setting was confined to the boardroom. In the movie version of "The Club" many other places were visited, such as Ted's house, Jock's shop, Geoff's house, the change room, the football field and the street. It is far more realistic having many settings; if it was real life they would not have discussed issues in the boardroom all the time.
             A lot of fine details about the club were changed in the movie, again to make it seem more realistic. Instead of a club only identifiable by Purple and Yellow football shirts, they were named as the Collingwood Football Club, with white and black football shirts. The play was originally written to refer to Collingwood but was not mentioned, the movie took that one step further. The money that was paid for Geoff was substantially higher, instead of eighty thousand the figure was one hundred and twenty thousand.
             Characters were increased in the movie version, from the original six there were many more. All of the players were shown, in training and actually playing the game, also storming the boardroom. Other Committee members were included in the movie, and we had a chance to see what really happened the day Geoff was bought. Women were depicted in a totally different way in the movie; they seemed to have more importance and were not discarded and only brought up in light conversation. Susie p
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