In this essay, I am going to discuss whether film adaptations necessarily distort William Shakespeare’s plays. William Shakespeare was known for his writing in poems and plays. Overtime Shakespeare’s plays have been increasingly adapted into films. They have also been altered in terms of speech, props to fit the audience of that era. Directors recreated their own way of portraying the play. One of Shakespeare’s popular play’s Othello was adapted into a film and produced by David Barron in 1995. The film follows the original script yet cut’s a lot of the lines of the characters. Therefore, the film is not a word-to-word adaption. Also, additional scenes were produced such as a sex scene between Othello and Desdemona that was not on the play. Othello dreams about Desdemona having an affair with Cassio, which is also not in the play. The director purposely adds additional scenes as they create more drama and tension between the characters allowing the audience to feel for absorbed with the film. The producer incorporates current affairs at the time such as cheating. This allows the film to be more relatable to the audience. …show more content…
Psychoanalysis theory was applied to Hamlet, which he talks about in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Freud states “the play is built up on Hamlet's hesitations over fulfilling the task of revenge that is assigned to him; but its text offers no reasons or motives for these hesitations". He also suggests that Hamlet has an "Oedipal desire for his mother and the subsequent guilt [is] preventing him from murdering the man [Claudius] who has done what he unconsciously wanted to do". In Ernest Jones, The Oedipus-Complex as An Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery: Study in Motive also takes on this psychoanalytic approach, which influenced many producers like Laurence Olivier (1948) and Zeffirelli (1990) to depict the ‘closet scene’ into a bedroom scene in which Hamlet confronts his