Seeing the play of Wit was a more gratifying experience than reading the text of the play. Anytime I can see characters come to life in a movie or play, it shows how vivid ones imagination can really be. There are certain things about the play can only be conveyed through emotion. Some details require seeing the characters interact with one another as opposed to just reading it. Just seeing the scenery of a play can give more detail and be more appealing than just reading a play. Seeing Vivian's mannerisms make viewers a bit more sensitive to her attitude and situation.
Am I in pain? I don’t believe this. Yes, I’m in goddamn pain. (Furious) I have a fever of 101 spik ing to 104. And I have bone metastases in my pelvis and both femurs. (Screaming) There is cancer eating away at my goddamn bones, and I did not know there could be such pain on this earth.
Words on a page can be very expressive, but I enjoyed the film more because I was able to understand the expression of characters beyond what stage directions could tell. Seeing a performer act with emotion heightens the entire experience. The film to me was more exciting than reading the book and it was also more emotional. Seeing someone suffer like Vivian did is way harsher than just reading about it. This is seen when Vivian is administered a pelvic exam that is uncomfortable to watch because it is so insensitively done. In the book I did not get the impression of just how bad it actually was. Vivan is treated like a project by physicians and which is more evident in film than in the text. Even thought the written text is very descriptive and gives a good picture of what is happening, it cannot show the full scenery, emotion, or detail that film can. A play written down is also meant to be portrayed through acting this is why the lack of emotion is evident to me. However, when I read novels that give great detail and insight into the emotions and feelings of a character a film can almost ruin the visual that the novels gives.
When I would read plays like Our Town or Shakespearean plays in my younger years it was harder for me to understand all of the stage direction, but now when reading this play it is easier. I prefer for a play to be in film than written especially in this case because of the emotion that was involved. However, just having my imagination of what the characters may have looked like or acted like is always a more unique experience than seeing it acted out.
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