Film Screening
- “Far from the Madding Crowd” by Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1998 drama television film adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel of the same name Starring
Paloma Baeza as Bathsheba, Nathaniel Parker as Oak, Jonathan Firth as Sergent Troy and Nigel Terry as Mr. Boldwood. (Wikipedia)
Pre-viewing task:
1. Thomas Hardy – influenced by Romanticism
and critic of Victorian society
2. Thomas Hardy - his novels concern tragic
characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances
3. Characters are often set in the
semi-fictional region of Wessex.
While viewing task:
1. Observe the characters and passion of
Bathsheba, Troy and Boldwood.
2. Oak differs from Sergeant Troy and Mr.
Boldwood.
3. Observe the plot construction in Film version
and Novel.
4. Observe the passion of Boldwood in film
version and novel.
Post viewing task:
1. Which version of the novel is more
appealing, Novel or film? Why?
2. Compare the characters of film and
characters of novel (your imagination during reading).
3. Judge the character of Bathsheba. (Woman
with free will, vanity, chicken hearted, waiting for true love, obsessed with
beauty, confused about her love affairs)
4. Judge the character of Gabriel Oak. (Gold
in mine, Observer of Bathsheba and her lovers, Silent lover, victim but hero,
true lover, the only mature character)
5. Judge the character of Boldwood.
(Passionate, victim of circumstances, pitiable, a good man with possession of
love, lost his originality/morality in loving Bathsheba – or he has revealed his
original personality in loving Bathsheba)
6. If you were director or screenplay writer,
what sort of difference would you make it the making of movie? (blog)
7. Who would be your choice of actors to play
the role of characters? (blog)
Students have to answer any five questions.
Give your answers in comment box.
Bibliography
blog, Dilip Barad's. Dilip
Barad's blog. http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2013/09/worksheet-film-screening-harold-pinters.html.
Wikipedia.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film). http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2013/09/worksheet-film-screening-harold-pinters.html.
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