Differences Between The Crucible Play And Movie

Nicholas Hytner’s adaptation of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is pulsating with dramatic energy. Hytner has also directed films that were adapted from stage.Hytner works in a punchy, combustible style, sweeping his camera through the sunny fields of Salem, using wide-angle lenses to make the actors’ faces pop off the screen.
In the movie version of The Crucible, Elizabeth Proctor was one of the most believable characters from the play. She was indeed married to Proctor and her hanging was postponed due to her pregnancy. Elizabeth’s character had a better accent in the movie than in the play. According to the article it says, ”The language of the play is accurate because it uses the correct accents and the characters would have been played by English actors because the modern american accent wasn’t developed yet.”(“The Crucible”). She was also one of the more believable characters, because not everything she did was over-dramatized. According to a film critic, “The characters I believed in most were Elizabeth Proctor, acted,

In the article it says, “the scene where abigail kisses john and he throws her off of him, shows that Abigail was oddly and obsessively lusting over the man while he was making a sincere attempt to get over her.”(“Bartleby”). In the movie Putnam had a change in character than in the play. According to the article, “his personality is not so domineering as in the movie, where he is bordering on psychotic”(“Bartleby”).In the movie he had a more significant role. Abigail has a much more unnerving attitude in the movie than the play. In the movie she accuses reverend Hale’s wife of witchcraft. In the article it says, “This did not happen in the play, but helps in the movie to more clearly define Abigail as one of the antagonists in the movie”(“Bartleby”). In the movie the characters had additional scenes that weren’t in the play that clearly showed the character’s true