The Crucible Film Analysis

When you hear the word movie what is the first thing you can think of? Action, drama or maybe comedy? In better terms what makes a movie truly unique? Well for the movie The Crucible, the director Nicholas Hynter visually recreate the main theme of the original play created by Arthur Miller. What both the director and author focuses on is how mankind is always struggling to determine if living by the rules of society is best. What the director does is by adding different effects to the movie he created. For example by adding music he creates tension when it is being played and other cause he turns it off. He does this because in some cases he wants the audience to watch what the characters actions while other times he wants the audience to …show more content…
He uses this to show that the characters are always struggling to determine if societal pressure is best for living and in come cases they do. For example in the movie when the court session begins. What you can clearly see is when Abigail and girls walk into court room they are sullen and sad. You could also see that the camera zooms in to focus on the girls and they look tired and have bags under their eyes. The director did this to show how the author wanted to make the girls look innocent tired children so that society would look at them differently. By doing this Abigail and the girls could remove all suspicion from themselves. The author also uses her own language to show how following what society wants can be the best option. For example in the text it states “Abigail: "I want to open myself! I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!"(52) Here the author makes it look like that Abigail is confessing and by involving Jesus and how she loves him. At this same exact scene the director uses a close up on Abigail face to make the audience think that she was being sincere but in reality Abigail was just acting this part to show all the towns people what they

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