Differences Between The Crucible Movie And Play

The Kendra Miranda
AP English Language and Composition
Mrs. Siqueiros
October 13, 2015 The Crucible Film vs. Play After 43 years later, film producer Nicholas Hytner took it upon himself to film the movie version of Arthur Miller's original play The Crucible. Like most film producers who adapt to a novel or play, Hytner strove to maintain the purest version of the play while incorporating his own interpretation of it into his film. As the producer, Hytner was able to alter, delete, and add to the movie in order to make his own appeals in the movie to get his desired reactions from his audience, the viewers. While taking such a responsibility to display the play visually to the best of

Hytner produces different looks through screenplay that enhance the hysteria of the movie/play. Starting the movie, Hytner already begins the movie suggesting a vile mood by producing heavy fog and mist before introducing the scene in which the girls are dancing in the woods. Hytner does this in order to provide the setting mood for the rest of the movie. Another example is the fact that Hytner avoids to acknowledge the fact that Elizabeth and John Proctor's relationship is very distant due to the broken past between them. Unlike the movie, the script in the play gravely produces the cold distance between Elizabeth and John. In the play, Elizabeth and John certainly have problems and have cold discussions due to the mistrust Elizabeth has for him after his affair with Abigail. In the movie, there is nowhere near as much emphasis in the distance between Elizabeth and John since they are introduced working together as a family on the farm instead of inside the house before dinner like in the play. In this way, Hytner is able to remove the focus on the character role of proctor and balance it to the rest of the play and on the witch trials. Unlike the movie, the play allows for the reader to build a conflicting reputation following g the contrite character of proctor as he tries to justify himself before his wife. The focus on the character development of John is removed and is magnified upon the tribulations in general brought forth from the witch trials. This allows for greater freedom from the producer to generate the plot and to add suspense from the mysterious events within the movie. Another difference between the play and the movie is the setting in the movie is mainly outside rather than inside. I feel the producer does these scene changes to