Post viewing Task of The Birthday Party

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Here is my response to the given post – viewing Tasks of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter

1 )Why are two scenes of Lulu omitted from the movie?

Ans – As per my understending,  two scenes of Lulu are omitting in the play because Pinter try to highlighted the situation of women. That how Lulu abused by men and she became the victim. Othervise we can't say something other because the writer not clearly justify or portreyed  his intention of this charecter.

2 ) Is movie successful in giving us the effect of menace? Where you able to feel it while reading the text?

Ans – Still i not read the orignal text of the play, but movie is successful in creating the effects or the felling of menace.  When we screening the play at that time time and again this effects creat through voice of knocking the door, heatch of the door, tearing the paper , sound of water, airoplan, certain , vassals , sound of drume , brithing and camera's movement. Even through pause and silense of the diloghue also very important.

3) Do you feel the effect of lurking danger while viewing the movie? Where you able to feel the same while reading the text

Ans – while watching movie i felt  lurking danger when Goldberg and Mccan dilogued with stenley, and some time the behaviouer of stenly also creat lurking danger. And techincal variation like sound  and camera work also helped to creat this in movie.

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.

Ans -  Newspaper -  use as a non verbal devic in movie very effectivly. In the movie two charecters used well. First the charecter of Petey- he allways busy with reading newspaper , and it's symbolicaly represents two way, first he try to hide himself through newspaper. Means he don't want to take interast in real situation. Second is it's shows that he was very responsibal person of the socity, he try to be come more aware of the world and he knows everything which is made in and around him, but his wife not know anything . On the other side the charecter of Mccann used newspaper  to creat the detective atmospher and for frightend the Stanley , though it is trivel.

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? 

Ans – Through the positioning of camera over the head of Mccain when he is playing Blind Man's Buff and camera positioned at the top with a view of room like cage it's symobolicaly represent that we are blind and live in a cage means in four walls and they first proof and thay play. It is highly satier on human and society.

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?

Ans – Yes , it is very well shown in play, that each and every one give mercy to one another but it just pretense, at last no one help no body . All busy in their own world.

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)?

Ans – Yes, movie helps a lot to understand this play, through the sound , camera movement and other techniques . We feel the situation of the play and dilogues are also very good preformed with the pause and silence.

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)

Ans – I watched only this one movie so i can't say  anything about other movie or play. But this movie i liked . And it is well directed also.

9) If you were director or screenplay writer, what sort of difference would you make in the making of movie?

Ans -  No, i don't want to chang anything in the movie. Because in this movie director use well techniques and made it very well. 

10) Who would be your choice of actors to play the role of characters?

Ans – McCann- Irfan Khan

           Stanley – Nawaszuddin Siddki

           Goldburg- Anupam Kher

           Petey – Paresh Rawal

           Lulu- Kangna  Ranaut

           Meg- Tabu

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Thanks.