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Page to Stage to Screen. Analyzing the Cultivation of The Bad Seed Michelle Tvete. Adaptations. 1954 1954 1956. Adaptations. William March 1954. Adaptations. Maxwell Anderson 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ( 1933) &

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  1. Page to Stage to Screen Analyzing the Cultivation of The Bad Seed Michelle Tvete

  2. Adaptations 1954 1954 1956

  3. Adaptations William March 1954

  4. Adaptations Maxwell Anderson 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1933) & Gold Medal in Drama (1954)

  5. Adaptations John Lee Mahin1956

  6. Adaptations Director: MervynLeRoy 1956

  7. Adaptations 1954 1956

  8. Adaptations

  9. Adaptations 1954 1956

  10. Play • Characters: Broadway Types • Added Father character (Bravo—the writer) • More proponents of Environment • Cut library scenes & most “real life” examples • Internal thoughts are voiced melodramatically • Denker (grandmother) glamorized & escapes • Rhoda is blonde

  11. Film CHANGED • The Ending • Added more religious elements • Film Noir conventions (black & white) • Toned down some of the acting • Added arbor setting KEPT • Actors • Melodramatic Acting • “Stage feel” (Long takes, longer shots)

  12. The Ending • Production Code • Deus ex machina • Religion

  13. Production Code • Hays Office • 1930-68 • Created to avoid government intervention • Ended to compete with TV

  14. Production Code • No kiss longer than 3 seconds • No homosexuality • Criminals must be punished • “evil is wrong and good is right” • Must promote traditional values

  15. Production Code Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946)

  16. Production Code Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959)

  17. Deus Ex Machina "god from the machine"

  18. Deus Ex Machina "god from the machine"

  19. Religion "god from the machine"

  20. Religion "god from the machine"

  21. Film CHANGED • The Ending • Added more religious elements • Film Noir conventions (black & white) • Toned down some of the acting • Added arbor setting KEPT • Actors • Melodramatic Acting • “Stage feel” (Long takes, longer shots)

  22. Film Noir Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)

  23. Film Noir • Genre or Style • Examples: M (1931), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Sunset Blvd. (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951) • Characteristics?

  24. Film Noir SOURCE: http://www.librarypoint.org

  25. Film Noir Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1946)

  26. Film Noir Bobby’s World “The Big Sweep” (1990)

  27. Film Noir SOURCE: http://www.librarypoint.org

  28. Film Noir Femme Fatale

  29. Film Noir Femme Fatale

  30. Femme Fatale • “Fatal woman” (French) • Fille Fatale (younger woman) • Uses feminine wiles for secret purpose • Attractive with almost magical charm • Threat to traditional womanhood • Home is a dangerous place

  31. How Adapted to Film? Film Noir

  32. How Kept Like a Play? Stage on Film?

  33. How Kept Like a Play? Curtain Call?

  34. Evil Child Subgenre of Horror

  35. Evil Child Subgenre of Horror 1954

  36. The Concept of Childhood Innocent

  37. The Concept of Childhood Tabula Rasa—Blank Slate

  38. The Concept of Childhood 1955

  39. Who Can Kill a Child ? (1976) Evil Child Subgenre of Horror (1993)) Let Me In (2010) The Omen (1976)

  40. THE end

  41. Southern Gothic Subgenre Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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