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Under Milk Wood and My Dinner With Andre are two very different texts that relate in very many ways. Under Milk Wood was written by the poet Dylan Thomas and was a radio drama written in 1954 and was written “purely for voices”(Birch 121). To me this work was hard to understand as a radio drama because of the many different characters, this problem was later solved when it was adapted for the stage and directed by Andrew Sinclair in 1973. My Dinner With Andre was a film that was written by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn in 1981. This was an American comedy film. American comedy films are produced in the United States and often rely on motions and gestures to make things humorous. Surprisingly, not only did Gregory and Shawn write this …show more content…
My Dinner With Andre consist of four characters, Wally Shawn, Andre Gregory, a waiter, and a bartender. The film focuses on the two main characters Wally and Andre. I did not seem to see an antagonist in this film because though it is a disagreement between two friends, it is very civil and leaves the audience to make its own inference and take its own side on the dispute. The comparison of the two characters in My Dinner With Andre gave me a clear visual on their different outlooks on everyday life. The characters differ first in appearance, Andre is very tall and attractive while Wally is short and bald but with remarkable blue eyes. In the text I thought Andre was very interesting as he does most of the talking and storytelling. In one of his stories, like Captain Cat in Under Milk Wood, it seems Andre is very focused on love, which is a major focus to many people in everyday life. His stories are all about what it’s like to be human and be alive. “You see Wally, the trouble with always being active and doing things is that it’s quite possible to do all sorts of things and at the same time be completely dead inside” (Gregory 105). This quote to me is a very important sentence from Andre in the book because it shows how Andre wants to find more in what he is …show more content…
In Under Milk Wood, the text takes place in a town called Llareggub. Llareggub comes from reversing a phrase that reads “bugger all”. Many think that the inspiration for this town came from the author because, Laugharne was the village where Thomas lived in the thirties. The text opens with “It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black the cobblestone streets silent and the hunched..” (Thomas 3). The first sentence of the texts gives the reader a feeling of being in a small village filled with sleeping people. Later in the text there is the “Voice of a Guide-book”, this is where I found the best description in the setting of the town in this text. The description of the town in this voice makes it sound very normal, like there is not much to attract in the town and everyone does just about the same thing everyday. The description of the setting almost makes the town sound boring, “...remaining a few eighteenth-century houses of more pretension, if, on the whole, in a sad state of dis pretension…” (Thomas 19). I believe this setting gives extra help to the author when giving off the message of the meaning of life. It is much easier to grasp how a person lives when their life is what we would consider to be average. The characters live in an average village and like the setting they mostly live an average life. In contrast, My Dinner With Andre is mainly in
Under Milk Wood and My Dinner With Andre are two very different texts that relate in very many ways. Under Milk Wood was written by the poet Dylan Thomas and was a radio drama written in 1954 and was written “purely for voices”(Birch 121). To me this work was hard to understand as a radio drama because of the many different characters, this problem was later solved when it was adapted for the stage and directed by Andrew Sinclair in 1973. My Dinner With Andre was a film that was written by Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn in 1981. This was an American comedy film. American comedy films are produced in the United States and often rely on motions and gestures to make things humorous. Surprisingly, not only did Gregory and Shawn write this …show more content…
My Dinner With Andre consist of four characters, Wally Shawn, Andre Gregory, a waiter, and a bartender. The film focuses on the two main characters Wally and Andre. I did not seem to see an antagonist in this film because though it is a disagreement between two friends, it is very civil and leaves the audience to make its own inference and take its own side on the dispute. The comparison of the two characters in My Dinner With Andre gave me a clear visual on their different outlooks on everyday life. The characters differ first in appearance, Andre is very tall and attractive while Wally is short and bald but with remarkable blue eyes. In the text I thought Andre was very interesting as he does most of the talking and storytelling. In one of his stories, like Captain Cat in Under Milk Wood, it seems Andre is very focused on love, which is a major focus to many people in everyday life. His stories are all about what it’s like to be human and be alive. “You see Wally, the trouble with always being active and doing things is that it’s quite possible to do all sorts of things and at the same time be completely dead inside” (Gregory 105). This quote to me is a very important sentence from Andre in the book because it shows how Andre wants to find more in what he is …show more content…
In Under Milk Wood, the text takes place in a town called Llareggub. Llareggub comes from reversing a phrase that reads “bugger all”. Many think that the inspiration for this town came from the author because, Laugharne was the village where Thomas lived in the thirties. The text opens with “It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black the cobblestone streets silent and the hunched..” (Thomas 3). The first sentence of the texts gives the reader a feeling of being in a small village filled with sleeping people. Later in the text there is the “Voice of a Guide-book”, this is where I found the best description in the setting of the town in this text. The description of the town in this voice makes it sound very normal, like there is not much to attract in the town and everyone does just about the same thing everyday. The description of the setting almost makes the town sound boring, “...remaining a few eighteenth-century houses of more pretension, if, on the whole, in a sad state of dis pretension…” (Thomas 19). I believe this setting gives extra help to the author when giving off the message of the meaning of life. It is much easier to grasp how a person lives when their life is what we would consider to be average. The characters live in an average village and like the setting they mostly live an average life. In contrast, My Dinner With Andre is mainly in