Brilliant Lies: Comparison between Film and Playwright :: miscellaneous

Brilliant Lies comparability between Film and PlaywrightDavid Williamson wrote the serious comedy, Brilliant Lies in 1993. trio years youngr the play was neutered into a film. The play was to the highest degree how a young sexy party girl, Susy, was sexually harassed by her power-demeaning boss, Gary. Throughout the story we ar kept in the dark almost what the truth really is concerning the account in the office when both parties worked late alone. The film introduces changes to both enhance and develop the plays chief(prenominal) ideas and themes. When plays are made into film, or film into plays improvement s are made. Scenes are taken out, added and changed. The film of Brilliant Lies has significant improvements a mise en scene is added, some are deleted and overall the setting are far to a greater extent exotic. Overall the film improves on the ideas explored in the play. Many changes are displayed in the film adapted from the playwright. One of these main changes would be the ending of the story. The adapted film ending shapes our ideas of Gary and his wife, Stephanie. In the play we never meet Stephanie and notwithstanding chance on about her from what Gary says to Susy who explains it to Marion who is there to make sure the proceedings tire outt get out of hand. Susy says He screamed that his wife treated him like shit. Consequently in the play we signify of Stephanie as a bitch. In the film Stephanie is at the court interview and has to hear the horrible degrading things her husband has told Susy about her. Stephanie eventually breaks beat from hearing these things in court and leaves. We feel sorry for her because of the horrible things she had to hear in court and also because she is married to such a aggressive man. The audience in both film and play know that Gary treats Stephanie hard because of what he says to Susy, who repeats it in court in the film and in the gathering room in the play he hated her so some(prenominal) that the only thing that made him feel god was that hed cheated on her four times since. Gary is presented in a hostile carriage towards women and we instantly hate him for saying and doing something like that in opposition to the women he should be devoted to. Therefore the film gives us an idea of what Stephanie would go through if she found out about the affair, harassment and what her husband has make behind her back.