The Birthday Party
Post-Viewing Task:
1) Why are two s
cenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?
The main protagonist of the play is Stanley Webber. The story running around him. The two scenes are omitted from the movie, because if viewers will see that drum,scene in which LuL was abusing by Stanley, it means viewers may have sympathy for LuLu and LuLu will become protagonist of the play, and may the viewers will see it by feminist view point. So, may be that is the reason behind omitted of LuLu's two scenes.
2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?
Yes, movie is successful in giving us the effect of Menace. We can feel it i n many time in the movie. For example, at the starting of the movie, there is a noise of tearing newspaper, and other is noise of Toy drum, Lulu's laughing and many sound we can fell in the movie while reading the text, may be it is not possible to feel it in effective way, but in movie, or it is more effective. so, we can say that the movie is effective to give the effect of menace. while reading the text it is felt but not as effective as 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
In the scene of birthday party, when all the characters accept Petey playing the game of hide and sick and when Stanley's turn come it seems very serious and by the effect of camera it look like very dangerous. It shows that something will happen which will not good and we find also that in the very next scene where LuLu is abusing by Stanley. The same thing we can also feel in the text.
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.
Newspaper is the most recurrent symbol. pinter's characters hide themeselves behind the newspaper. For Petey newspaper is symbol for hiding himself. He knows the reality of that two strangers and what happens with Stanley. He was hide the pieces of the newspaper from Meg, he is not said anything to her, because he was torn by that two men. MecCan's the torn pieces shows his mentality towards Stanley. He want to change or torn Stanley's mentality like the pieces of the newspaper.
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?
It shows that some one is always watching us, there is no freedom. that's why even at the one's own home also become like prison. It shows the Government policy that some one always keep watching that is master's policy and it is also shown in Birthday party from which Stanley was suffered.
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?
"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." Yes, it is happened in the movie and also in the play. the play and the movie , both are represented this things.
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)?
Visual is always better than reading. In reading we can not feel more effect of the expression of characters and their emotions and the background , sound and the scene we can feel at better way by watching the movie. By reading the text it is much not effective.
8) With which of the following observations you agree:
o “It probably wasn't possible to make a satisfactory film of "The Birthday Party."
o “It's impossible to imagine a better film of Pinter's play than this sensitive, disturbing version directed by William Friedkin”[3]. (Ebert)
9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?
10) Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?
LuLu : Kulkie Kochline
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