Anne Frank Movie Vs Play

After viewing the biography of Anne Frank as well as reading the play of Anne Frank's diary, I believe my opinion and the evidence provided clearly states that movie was powerful, enough to say that the play didn't provide enough detail. I believe that the movie was very powerful, but lacked the information needed to understand what was going on. The play provided this information as well as Anne's thoughts and scripts in her diary, but excluded the severeness of the situation and also failed to provide enough detail onto what was going on outside of the Secret Annex. When looking at both the film and the playwright, you can see that there are major differences as wells as similarities. Going through the differences, I could see that unlike

In the play, the director made the entire play take place in the Secret Annex, including when Mr. Frank had his flashback. The director has to use this technique because a set of a play cannot be easily changed so it would be hard to shift from place to place like in the movie, where they can make multiple sets without moving them. In the movie though, even though you get more action and more information on what's going on, it does exclude a major exponent in which it needs to thrive. This part was where we didn't actually get to see or hear anything read from Anne's Diary, thus creating a sense that we really don't know what Anne was like talking about personal things and how she felt about all that was going on around her. The play included this, but in the play, we weren't able to see anything that went on outside the Secret Annex, especially the harshness of the concentration camps. That is what made the movie more powerful than the play, even though the play gave us an inside look on what Anne really felt about the war and going into