Midsummer Night’s Dream Film Study - Andrew Hui
The movie A Midsummer Night 's Dream directed by Michael Hoffman, was a decently made adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.The setting, the scene additions, and the ability to use the themes had its goods and flaws.
The setting, was set in Monte Athena, Italy, which is a not what the original play was set in which is Athens. This creates a lot of confusion for people that have not read to play, as comments on “Athenian Garments” and references to Diana and the other gods would not make any sense. It would be preferable if the play was set back into Athens, and was set back into a earlier time, it would be more enjoyable in my opinion. In the play, Italy seemed to be way more advanced than a Ancient Greece, which creates many things that don’t make sense, you wouldn’t talk in Greek context about gods and other creatures during that time, the phrase that Theseus said where he wooed Hippolyta with his sword would not make any sense at all. The director needed to reconsider the setting he used, as using a completely different place than what the play says …show more content…
The addition of Bottom’s wife seemed out of place, and played no large role in the movie, which seems weird because adaptations of plays and books usually want to be as similar as the book as possible. The addition of the mud fight was really interesting in my opinion, where it wasn’t really relevant, but it did make the movie more interesting. The addition of Puck riding a bike around really again takes away the magical feel from this play, it makes Puck seem less like a fairy and more like a childish grownup, which removes the magical feel from the play. Most scene additions seem unnecessary or just should be non-existent, because they take away from making the movie more similar with the original play, or they just take away from the important themes of the
The movie A Midsummer Night 's Dream directed by Michael Hoffman, was a decently made adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.The setting, the scene additions, and the ability to use the themes had its goods and flaws.
The setting, was set in Monte Athena, Italy, which is a not what the original play was set in which is Athens. This creates a lot of confusion for people that have not read to play, as comments on “Athenian Garments” and references to Diana and the other gods would not make any sense. It would be preferable if the play was set back into Athens, and was set back into a earlier time, it would be more enjoyable in my opinion. In the play, Italy seemed to be way more advanced than a Ancient Greece, which creates many things that don’t make sense, you wouldn’t talk in Greek context about gods and other creatures during that time, the phrase that Theseus said where he wooed Hippolyta with his sword would not make any sense at all. The director needed to reconsider the setting he used, as using a completely different place than what the play says …show more content…
The addition of Bottom’s wife seemed out of place, and played no large role in the movie, which seems weird because adaptations of plays and books usually want to be as similar as the book as possible. The addition of the mud fight was really interesting in my opinion, where it wasn’t really relevant, but it did make the movie more interesting. The addition of Puck riding a bike around really again takes away the magical feel from this play, it makes Puck seem less like a fairy and more like a childish grownup, which removes the magical feel from the play. Most scene additions seem unnecessary or just should be non-existent, because they take away from making the movie more similar with the original play, or they just take away from the important themes of the