Thinking Activity " The birthday party "

 

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(1) Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

 Answer:

In the movie when the birthday party starts at that time Lulu is present. And then the very important part of the movie she is npt present in the movie. When somebody rapes on her. She becomes a victims of someone. 

(2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?

Answer :

 If director show Lulu's scene then it seems somewhat romantic but here, in the movie director shows us a very threatening scene of rape in blackout so this genre keep its quality so two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie.

(3) Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text.

Answer:

 yes.the movie giving a successful effect of menace. While we are reading the play at some level it creates that kind of effect but not that much like film does because the audio and visual effects are more effective that reading text. In the movie.

(4) What do you read in 'newspaper' in the movie? Petey is reading newspaper to Meg, it torn into pieces by McCain, pieces are hidden by Petey in last scene.

 Answer:

Yes, throughout the movie we can find the effect of lurking danger when door knocking and in the interrogation scenes. Furthermore, we can find the lurking danger when Mccain tears news paper in pieces. In the play we can find when we think who drive the car where s/he going and interrogation scene of text.

(5) Camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and is positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage (trap) when Stanley is playing it. What interpretations can you give to these positioning of camera? 

Answer: 

Camera is positioned over the head of McCann when he is playing blind man's buff and view of the camera from the roof of the room like a cage or trap. When Stanley is playing the game, it shows that Stanley can't escape from the trap created by two strangers.

(6) "Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of one another and pretense crumbles." (Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics: Excerpts from the 2005 Nobel Lecture). Does this happen in the movie?

Answer:

Yes, some extent it happens in the movie. Everyone has love and care for each other for instance Meg, lulu and Petey show care for Stanley but at the end when Stanley is in problem no one can helps or even care. 

          

(7) How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like painteresque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?

 Answer:

Some rightly quoted that an image worth than thousand words, so obviously viewing movie help in better understanding of the play. We can not understand the silence, pause, pinteresque, menace and lurking danger through text but we can understand through visual images and pictures. So, camera angle helps us a lot to understand this kind of play.

(8)With which of the following observations you agree:

* It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."

* “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”[3]. (Ebert)

Answer:

I have agree  with first  point.  I have not  properly  understand. 

(9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?

Answer: when  i  am  screenplay  writer scenes that are included in the final version of the movie.

(10).Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?

(1) Stanley.     -    Sanjay Dutt

(2) Lulu.    -      Katrina Kaif

(3) Petey      -  K.K.menon

(11) Do you see any similarities among Kafka's Joseph K. (in 'The Trial'), Orwell's Winston Smith (in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four') and Pinter's Victor (in 'One for the Road')? 

Answer: Yes, Similarities is there. In this three work. In these we find that political pressure is there. Ans the chracters are in depression, or in some fear. And some chracter has power to rule over them. And they becomes victims. And they becomes the puppet. Some bad incidents happens. And some characters feels anxiety. Power plays important role.

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