The Crucible

aks_29 · #1 05-08-2008, 07:54 PM

We just read the play in english class then watched the movie after.

If there were any doubts about there being actual witches in the story before the movie, they were definitely disproved right away. That scene at the beginning where the girls are mixing a cauldron with a frog in it and shouting boys names was crazy. Then Abigail bites the head of the chicken and all of them get naked!!

I found it ridiculous (the movie). The play was good though.

Happynoj · #2 05-08-2008, 08:06 PM

Damn. I thought this was going to be a thread about snooker.

Never heard of The Crucible. Who wrote it?

KeithBMI · #3 05-08-2008, 08:12 PM

Aww man! You ruined the whole beginning for me!

...I actually watched that in my English class about 3 years ago.

Mon Rominee · #4 05-08-2008, 08:13 PM

I've melted glass in 1 liter crucibles made of platinum. leased by the government. worth more than many people's houses.

aks_29 · #5 05-08-2008, 08:14 PM

I found all of the acting in it way over the top and the movie in general just crazy and ridiculous but also because of that hilarious.

WickedPissah · #6 05-08-2008, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Happynoj

Damn. I thought this was going to be a thread about snooker.

Never heard of The Crucible. Who wrote it?

Arthur Miller

warwick.hoy · #7 05-08-2008, 08:34 PM

The book is way better than the movie. It was also written as an allegory to the black listing and red scare of the McCarthyism era.

Ripper · #8 05-09-2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy

The book is way better than the movie. It was also written as an allegory to the black listing and red scare of the McCarthyism era.

as our teacher wouldnt let us forget... she completely ruined the Lord Of the Flies... gave away "hints" about what everything symbolized and how it "might come into play later on in the book" (piggy's glasses, roger throwing stones around but not at the kid, etc...)

AmyTheFreak · #9 05-09-2008, 03:07 PM

I loved it... though Grade 12 was Crucible overload for the few of us that had our Crucible English study overlap with our Crucible Acting class study.

So I read it, watched it, and dissected the scene between John and Elizabeth in the kitchen and then performed it. I even have video of it... I sort of had a brain freeze at the end because I thought my partner messed up (because he did every single other time we did it).

MakiSupaStar · #10 05-09-2008, 03:20 PM

I remember seeing Romeo and Juliet in school and getting to see Juliet's boob. I thought that was the greatest thing in the world. School-sanctioned boob.

GregC · #11 05-09-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

I remember seeing Romeo and Juliet in school and getting to see Juliet's boob. I thought that was the greatest thing in the world. School-sanctioned boob.

They censored that when they showed the movie in my high school.

But that was 1980-ish.

Ben Lesser · #12 05-09-2008, 03:32 PM

The Crucible is an excellent play. We studied it in my Modern Drama class last semester. I skipped the classes when they showed the movie, though. I hate seeing movie adaptations of really good literature. Almost always ruins it. >_<

i_got_a_mohawk · #13 05-09-2008, 03:33 PM

Meh, I found it boring and over stated. We did it in high school, I was just never a fan of plays. They always lacked depth IMO.

One of the best movie adaptations ever tho "Macbeth on the Estate", I **** you not. That was funny as hell and pretty wierd.

i_got_a_mohawk · #14 05-09-2008, 03:34 PM

Googled it and they have it on youtube if anyone wants a laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV25yBl9VkM

theNoseBleedKid · #15 05-10-2008, 08:22 AM

Miller lacks DEPTH??? I'm not a fan of plays by a long strech, but he's one writer that had depth exuding from every piece he wrote, theres always a metaphor, an allogory, a plot and a greater message being told at once.

i_got_a_mohawk · #16 05-10-2008, 08:41 AM

Not enough for my tastes, plays never do.

RobTheSkanker · #17 05-10-2008, 09:33 AM

I liked it. We just started death of a salesman in my class as well.

Baryonyx · #18 05-10-2008, 09:59 AM

I had to read the play and watch it for my English GCSE's a few years ago. Dear me, it was awful!

santucci218 · #19 05-10-2008, 10:17 AM

i have read that play 3 times and dont care much for it, or the movie. though the movie has some funny parts.

i_got_a_mohawk · #20 05-10-2008, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris2112

I had to read the play and watch it for my English GCSE's a few years ago. Dear me, it was awful!

We did it at standard grade level (GCSE equivilant) and it's good to see someone else agreeing that it was dire!