Post view task: The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
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This blog is a part of post viewing task of the play "the Birthday Party" written by Harold Pinter in 1957 and directed by William Friedkin, a 1968 film in which our Professor Dr. Dilip Barad sir gave us task to interpret the movie. Here is the blog link of the given task click here
Post-Viewing Tasks:
1)Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?
Lulu’s two scenes can’t omitted from the movie may be Director shown only good thing, and in the movie Lulu's character portrait as differ from novel. And may be he didn’t want to focus on female characters in the movie otherwise he was less focus on female characters justification like Meg and Lulu because this character show only few minutes and Meg and Lulu haven’t individuals identity. In the film we can see Meg most of in the kitchen and Lulu show ready for sexual relationship
2) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?
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, we find the effect of menace clearly in the interrogation scene where the number of the question asked and through the loud sound effect and Stanley was sweating in fear and frustration and when Stanley hears about the two strangers he runs in a fear.
3) Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text
Yes, I felt the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie. When Stanley constantly biting the drum and during light off after Lulu's screaming voice there scenes are effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie. Petey read newspaper and Meg asking questions there I felt the same to watching movie and reading 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.
There are various interpretations of the news paper. In the first scene we see that Petey read news paper and Meg doing household work so in this we can say that newspaper stand for intellectual personality and in other way we can say that Petey is more connected with current scenario of the outside world when Meg is limited to the house. Another interpretation is when we see the Mccain torn the news paper into pieces it shows the ill motive of him that he wants to destroy Stanley as 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?
camera is positioned over the head of McCain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff it suggest that McCain who don’t able to show reality of Goldberg that why he blindly follow Goldberg. When Stanley was playing game at that time camera positioned at the top with a view of room like a cage, this is given sign of Standby position like he is in cage or trap by system.
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?)
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. So, we can connect this with America and and other countries for example, when many Muslim countries have care and love for other Muslim countries but when America opposes any country like Iran and Iraq then Saudi Arabia can not do anything like Petey, Meg can not do for Stanley because power make them underdog.
7)How does viewing movie help in better understanding of the play ‘The Birthday Party’ with its typical characteristics (like picturesque, pause, silence, menace, lurking danger)?
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)
I agree with second observation because director could make more attractive for audience because this movie is such boring according to me. Waiting for Godot is also absurd play and less even it is attractive when in this movie more characters even like boring for me. So director could make more interesting.
9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?
No I have not make any kind of change and go with the original text and also the same dialogue delivery and Same location I have to put in movie not a single thing I want to change this because it's a perfect no need to change that's why
10)Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?
1) Amirkhan ,2) Amitabh Bachan,3)Aditya ready
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