William Shakespeare is known for his creativity being expressed by writing plays and poems. Many of his plays throughout time have been made into epic movies. When Shakespeare’s plays are recreated there are usually changes made within the scenes. Sometimes the changes would be made to the language for the movie to adapt to modern times. Other times there would be minimal changes made by the director to have more of an emphasis of the themes. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar there are a few differences between the film and the text, but a lot was also kept the same to portray Shakespeare’s themes. From watching the film and reading the text of Julius Caesar, I consider the film and text being a loose adaptation because there are many details …show more content…
Throughout the film there are some significant changes that show characterization. There are minimal differences showing characterization of characters since the start of the play. The film Julius Caesar and the text shared some similarities and had some differences. The script for the movie was the same as the script for the play. The only difference is some lines are taken out of the movie. For an example reading the beginning of the Act 1, the character Flavius quotes "Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, being mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a laboring day without the sign of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?". (pg 1) However in the film, Flavius comes with the same approach only the phase is shortened. He says, "Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not." I believe that certain lines from the text were taken out of the movie due to the length of the film. To my understanding, since there's no visual aspect to the text it is necessary for the phrases to be longer in order to add more intensity to the text giving the reader to in vision what is happening. In the text of Julius Caesar, I feel as though it is necessary to watch the film to understand the text. For readers like me that aren't familiar with the language in the play it is essential for me to watch the film to fully understand what is going on in the