Look at the opening of Nicolas Hytner Essay

The music gets faster as he finds his expression through and through the trees and bushes, pastce he comes close to the area where the girls are though he does not it is them the music changes to a drum beat with Parris footsteps world able to be heard. The camera changes back to the girls with Abigail walking up to Tituba and so Abigail whispers in Abigails ear and Tituba looks scared and shocked as she label no. Abigail then turns around to the pot runs to it and picks up the chicken by its feet and hits its head of a rock breaking its neck the Abigail drinks the blood of the chicken.Then Abigail takes her clothes off, all the girls are screaming then one(a) of the girls collars Parris advent towards them so they all run away except Betty who says that she cannot move. The camera angles through all of this were very fast and furious. Then everything chokes to slow down with a picture of Parris on his own looking at the cauldron he lifts up the large spoon inside the pot a nd drops as if he was scared of it, when he see the chicken as well he gets annoyed though he is a bit scared.The next ikon shows Betty in her bed, with a suspicion of mesmerisecraft floating almost the place. exactly Tituba and Abigail are in the room with Betty there have about eighter minutes of spuding yet we hear no words spoken. in that respect is obvious tension between Tituba and Abigail over what has happened. More tension is shown when Parris questions Abigail about the incident in the forest. Now music is played again with Abigail aspect that they danced but Parris suspects witch craft though Abigail is verbal expression that no hard drink have been conjured.The next motion picture is of Elizabeth and John Proctor who are wake a lot of tension. This tension is raised because John Proctor had an contact with there former servant, and guess who that servant was Abigail Williams. The picture show starts of quite amiable really with John Proctor and his sons wor king, the music is quite cheerful, the camera angles are quite far of. John Proctor and his go inside with his sons firing to bed and him going to have his dinner. Elizabeth gives it to him without verbalizeing but when they do speak it is about how there marriage is falling apart.Then the final scene of tension is in Church with the whole village there when a song is sung the girls go over to Bettys room then Abigail speaks to Betty saying she has told her father everything that happened in the woods. Then like lightning Betty wakes up with her saying I bet you never told him that you drank a go Abby, a charm to kill Goody Proctor. Then the music gets very chintzy this is emphasising how important this scene really is. The others girls get quite scared and start to walk away so Abigail threatens them that she would kill anyone who tells on her doings.The camera is lone(prenominal) on Abigail, but then Betty jumps up shouting she wants her mom and tries to fly front to her out of the window but the girls hold her back and everyone in the church rubs out to them. This causes a lot of tension between all the girls and makes witch craft a bust conclusion to what has been happening. In conclusion to Nicolas Hytners film of the play The Crucible was directed extremely well qualification them beginning of the film already better to the book the film sets the scene better and I believe that it also creates more tension.Also with the biz being so old it was sometimes easier to understand the words better with them being said correctly and with also being able to see what is going on. Nicolas Hytner has used cinematic features to the best they could be in this film there fore making the filming better for all viewers. Matthew Brooke slope Coursework 20th Century Drama Show preview only The to a higher place preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in ourGCSE Arthur Millersection.