Question by : for anyone who has read Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, and seen the movie?
i need help on these… im not too much of a critic
1. What obvious changes are in the script?
2. Notice these motifs and decide on their meanings: the wind blowing, sheets of paper (often blowing,
sometimes folded), stairs, echoes, a dog howling.
3. The bare stage becomes a realistic, detailed set. They are in a real castle and on a real boat. What effect
does this realism have on a play? Can an absurd play be performed in a literal way?
4. One visual joke that is added shows one of our heroes creating and eating a Dagwood-style hamburger,
straight from the 20th century. What other jokes (mainly visual) do you find?
5. How predominant is Hamlet in the movie? How is he shown? Compared to the play, what portion of the
movie consists of scenes from Hamlet? How does this affect the movie?
6. How is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s disappearance scene changed? Does this change the play? Does it
make the Player guilty of their deaths?
7. Instead of simple, on-the-spot mime shows, the movie has a dumb show with skulls, a drowning, and the
sound of swords; a mime with masks, an oriental dumb show and a puppet show; all performing scenes
from Hamlet. At the end the mime is replaced by shots of the described actions actually happening. What is
the effect of these changes? What might the use of masks and puppets suggest?
8. How difficult is it to tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern apart in the movie?
9. What is the most effective change Stoppard made? the least?
Best answer:
Answer by Trashbat
Dude, I’m sorry but I’m not going to do your homework for you. Watch the movie! It’s great. And you say you’re not a critic, but the questions are all asking for SUBJECTIVE answers, ie what you see, and what YOUR opinion is. Come on, you might actually LEARN something!
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