Into The Woods Book Vs Movie Essay

The movie Into the Woods is more pleasing for the viewers to look at and listen to. It has more graphics, more well known actresses and actors, and having the baker as the narrator puts the story together better. In the film version of into the woods the voices sound better. The actors that play in the film version the voices fit better for the role that they are playing. Anna Kendrick who plays Cinderella has a voice that no one can forget. The actor who plays cinderella in the play version has just a plain voice that can just hit the notes but nothing stands out about it. James corden (the baker) has an accent and it fits his part very well so when he sings you can still kind of tell that he has an accent and it just makes the songs better. As opposed to the one in the play who is just a male who just can sing low and good. Meryl …show more content…
In the play they have a separate person who is not part of the story who is the narrator. Since the movie has James playing the Narrator in the end he is talking to his son telling him about the story about what just happened in the movie. This version makes more sense because it will continue to go on where it starts is where the movie ends so if somebody watches it again they will start right where they left off. In the play because there is another person telling the story and when the narrator dies everything goes wrong and the viewers can say that because they do not have an outside source telling the story or because they don't know what to do. People can argue saying that the play version makes more sense having another person telling the story because if the person in the story is telling the story it could be false or more about that person than anyone else. In the movie version though it does not talk more about the Baker who James Corden plays as. It also makes sense because both versions has the baker telling the little boy about his son what just