Comparing The Rocky Horror Picture Show And Naked Lunch

Michael Hoffman’s 1999 film version of Shakespeare's midsummer night’s dream was able to modify the audience experience of the play. Michael Hoffman had successfully turned the play into a film and was able to show a visible expression of the characters to the audience. He had also made some changes, like the settings and made his version modernized. Though the film was based on the Shakespeare’s play, the audience’s experience is still different.

The visual that a play presents is a dominating factor in the quest to invite an audience member into a world of which they feel a part. In a play such as Bus Stop by William Inge, this is especially important because Grace’s Diner plays a primary role in the storytelling. Inge’s use of the iconic American diner to tell his story is ingenious. Simply setting eyes on the set inevitably evokes pleasant feelings of familiarity and comfort in the minds of most audience members. A diner is a place where people gather; a place where individuals from different backgrounds share a similar experience. Inge crafted his characters meticulously in order to create contrast, conflict, and chemistry that would drive the plot through the forced

"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all (Andrew,The Breakfast Club) The Breakfast Club directed by John Hughes, has a plotline with several layers and characters that millions of teens identify with to this day. Pretty in Pink, also directed by John Hughes, consists of a cliche storyline and characters without a lot of depth. These two films helped define the 80s and their legacy will last for years to come. The Breakfast Club is superior over Pretty in Pink because the characters are more complex, there’s a caste of characters instead of one main character, and the plotline is more imaginative.

To start off I'd like to talk about the setting there are some key differences including the location of the entire story. As the book takes place in Portsmouth New Hampshire the movie takes place in South Cincinnati. As well as how close freak and Max live in the movie they live right next to each other in the book they live at least a block away. As well as time differences

In this time period, women were the objects that men could ogle over, buy, and use to their liking. She ends saying, "Now as then the theater apparatus is geared to profit a pleasure, and overwhelmingly controlled by males" (Diamond 536). This is still happening today. Women get tight fitting or revealing costumes, they parade themselves onstage for people to see. While the theatre has changed and transformed we still have this sexualized female role. This article can help us look at the theatre today because we can take it and use it to analyze more recent works of theatre. A lot of new theatre focuses on being fresh and trendy and while this is great that we are breaking away from the mold, there are still hints of influence from other writers. While both women and men are a big part of the theatre most business people are men, and even though the theatre is an art it is also a business. This article can influence us in the modern day to look at all aspects of theatre and find out what is actually being done and being influenced by old writers or old

In the play there is no such thing as the fourth wall, they speak to the audience many times and even have audience participation. Because it is an improv like play there are many parts that are not scripted. Such as the humorous vomit catastrophes each time there is a tragedy, and a part of the play where one of the actors refuses to act due to the vulgarity in the play name, along with many other scenes. The play starts out with an introduction from the actors. They perform many, if not all of William Shakespeare's play’s, starting with Romeo and Juliet and ending it with Macbeth.

Many ponder how the 21st century film “She’s the Man” could be based off of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” These two stories are actually very similar in many ways, but they also have their differences. The plot, characters, and setting are also similar in comparison in the two stories, but they also can differ. “She’s the Man” really modernizes “Twelfth Night” so that the audience has a better understanding of what “Twelfth Night” is about.

From the moment I sat on my seat, I noticed the scenery and the props for the play. The stage was set completely. My eyes wandered and paid attention to all the intricate details. The stage also captured the bright and colorful vibes that happened in 1970s. This was important since it set an illuminating atmosphere and a friendly mood. Moreover, Kyle Wessel’s portrayal

These past two weeks, while the theatre has been relatively calm, I chose three different pieces of media in order to delve further into my theater knowledge. The first of which is "Waiting for Guffman", a mockumentary on the beginning of a theater company in Blaine, Missouri. The town's resident director, Corky St. Clair, and the amateur cast of a corny small-town musical production go overboard when they hear that Mr. Guffman, representative of the prestigious New York based Oppenheimer Organization, will be in attendance. This film was a suggestion from my mentor, Ms. Hawkins, because it relates to many of the experiences I've had in my third space. For example, the cast have to go around town promoting the show in order to get people to

Genre theory is used to study films and put them into a classification so that audiences know what type of film it is before they see it. Genres are categories based on the story of the film, sometimes the actors and actresses, or even the directors. All films fall under a genre or sub-genre category. Romantic Comedy is an example of a genre which is light-hearted, humorous story involving people in love, sometimes overlapping with subgenres such as screwball comedy teen comedy, or gross-out comedy. ( Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014, table 4.1). This paper will focus on the romantic comedy genre and movie Rocky. It will take a better look at the specific conventions of this genre and how this movie fits the gangster genre.

The directors’ decision on what to include on stage is very important, it affects what the audience can see and how they perceive it. (Gibbs, 2002,p.5)

The focus of my essay is doing a comparison between the two directors, Jerzy Grotowski and Anne Bogart, looking at Grotowski’s poor theatre and Anne Bogart’s ‘experimental’ theatre, and also looking at their directing styles, and comparing the two, and also wanting to investigate the influence Grotowski had on Anne Bogart’s directing style. Through this, the main focus of the essay will be looking at how each director, through their directing styles, both looked for ‘truth and depth’ from their actors, Bogart through experimentation and Grotowski through the concept of the ‘holy actor’, and investigating how each director successfully accomplished to achieve this respectfully. ‘Body culture and the training of the body is pivotal in the signification

Comment Two: The talk starting on page 19 of media and theater and whether they act in concert or against each other is also very prescient. The book's clear verdict is that they are rivals but they are not remotely equal and that the mass saturation used by the media is very dominant.

In the following essay I have been asked to write a 2000 word essay discussing the main characteristic features of the classical Hollywood narrative film. This is a style of clarity where the viewer should not be confused about space, time, events or characters motivations and although a number of classical narrative traditions have been modified, or even rejected, this unfussy style of making movies it is still very much alive today and remains the dominant way of telling the story so it reaches a wider audience.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show , directed by Jim Chapman, is a campy comedy musical set in a horror and science fiction themed castle in which sexuality and hilarity run rampant. The film, closely based on a stage production, hit theaters in 1975 and continued to rule the midnight film scene, becoming a cult-classic. By using homage and allusion to science fiction and horror B-films, lambasting sexual identity and gender normality, and employing a self-referential universe, The Rocky Horror Picture Show stands as a strong representation of 1970 's postmodernism in film.