The famous short story “The Dead” published in 1907 in the book Dubliners by James Joyce represents the social, politic and economic aspects of Dublin in the pre-war period. This story that could seem unfilmable, was transformed into a 83 minutes movie by the director John Huston. The film follows meticulously the plot and enhances the themes of jealousy and intellectual pride through an Epiphany dinner in the Morkan's house. Many lines have been taken directly from the story. Joyce's sophisticated and meaningful words perfectly convey various themes and messages from the story. The great actor Donal McCann has the role of Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist. His wife, Gretta Conroy, is impersonated by the director's daughter Anjelica Huston. The
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This sadness arises when Bartell D'arcy (Frank Patterson) sings a song in the drawing room. The theme of death and piety will hit the audience creating a great range of feelings from the previous scenes. Mr. Browne interpreted by Dan O'Herlihy with his pale white hair socializes and entertains the guests with his fluent talking like a gentleman. Overall Gabriel is the man of the house and is given the right to cut the geese to be served after his speech and …show more content…
Being aware of the technology available in 1987 the movie could be considered as a great success in photography and sound recording. The whole film except for the last scene was recorded in the same house that could be considered relatively small from the story's description. Line for line and scene for scene the movie faithfully reflects the book. The most significant change to the story was the inclusion of a new character, Mr Grace who recites a poem to show his skills of storytelling. Again intellectual pride recalls during the whole duration of the event as each guest performed a song or poem to show off their abilities in the arts. For example when Aunt Julia sings a song to the guests to show her skill but is not performed accurately because of her age, or when she forces her niece Mary (Ingrid Craigie) to play the piano to show off her talent. In those scenes the camera shoots a close up image to whoever is playing or talking. The colors in the movie are very vivid by the color of their dresses, the various furniture in the house and the food. We can consider the carrying out of the story to be particularly slow because lasts up to nearly 1 hour and a half and it's a short story. It's very realistic in timing compared to a real party The film is acted very well and
This sadness arises when Bartell D'arcy (Frank Patterson) sings a song in the drawing room. The theme of death and piety will hit the audience creating a great range of feelings from the previous scenes. Mr. Browne interpreted by Dan O'Herlihy with his pale white hair socializes and entertains the guests with his fluent talking like a gentleman. Overall Gabriel is the man of the house and is given the right to cut the geese to be served after his speech and …show more content…
Being aware of the technology available in 1987 the movie could be considered as a great success in photography and sound recording. The whole film except for the last scene was recorded in the same house that could be considered relatively small from the story's description. Line for line and scene for scene the movie faithfully reflects the book. The most significant change to the story was the inclusion of a new character, Mr Grace who recites a poem to show his skills of storytelling. Again intellectual pride recalls during the whole duration of the event as each guest performed a song or poem to show off their abilities in the arts. For example when Aunt Julia sings a song to the guests to show her skill but is not performed accurately because of her age, or when she forces her niece Mary (Ingrid Craigie) to play the piano to show off her talent. In those scenes the camera shoots a close up image to whoever is playing or talking. The colors in the movie are very vivid by the color of their dresses, the various furniture in the house and the food. We can consider the carrying out of the story to be particularly slow because lasts up to nearly 1 hour and a half and it's a short story. It's very realistic in timing compared to a real party The film is acted very well and