Interpretation/remakes/reimagining
Sep. 24th, 2009 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kethniA bit of context: part of my exam in October is on theatre and plays. I've had a look at past exam questions and one that keeps popping up is about interpretation ie reimaginings, changing time period, gender of characters, how characters are presented. For instance Shylock in The Merchant of Venice now if often portrayed quite sympathetically but in Shakespeare's time he was a boo hiss villain. In order to get my head around this I'm looking for some viewpoints on how things can be reinterpreted.
So here are my questions, if you were 'remaking' Heroes and could change anything EXCEPT the general plot lines what would you do and why?
Would you change the time period, the tone - make it a sex comedy or a mystery perhaps - would you change the slant on some characters, would you change the race/age/gender of some of the characters? Would you do something else completely?
What effect do you think those changes would make? If Sylar was a woman would they have shown 'her' going after Molly? If Maya had been a man would 'his' power have been crying?
I'd really appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
Thanks <333
So here are my questions, if you were 'remaking' Heroes and could change anything EXCEPT the general plot lines what would you do and why?
Would you change the time period, the tone - make it a sex comedy or a mystery perhaps - would you change the slant on some characters, would you change the race/age/gender of some of the characters? Would you do something else completely?
What effect do you think those changes would make? If Sylar was a woman would they have shown 'her' going after Molly? If Maya had been a man would 'his' power have been crying?
I'd really appreciate any thoughts anyone has.
Thanks <333
