Differences in Film and Play: “the Night of the Iguana”Join now to read essay Differences in Film and Play: “the Night of the Iguana”Differences in film and play: “The Night of the Iguana”May 13, 2006John Houston carries a common theme throughout most of his movies, the theme of religion. The same holds true for his theatrical presentation of Tennessee Williams short play “The Night of the Iguana.” The main character of the play, Reverend Shannon, is known to be a teacher of the word but this is not portrayed in the play even close to as much as it is in Houston’s film. I will discuss three major differences between Williams play and the way it was interpreted onto the screen by Houston.
The first and most obvious difference between play and film is the opening scene. In the opening of the film the Reverend Shannon is preaching a typical Sunday sermon from the pulpit when he starts to deviate from his speech. The reverend begins to lash out at the churchgoers saying he’s tired of preaching the holy word in the wrong manner and in an evil, preposterous, almost “devilish” way continues to yell and scream at the people listening to him until they all get up and begin shuffling out of the church. He then follows them out the door and onto the sidewalk still yelling and screaming at them until they all leave. The play on the other hand begins with the bus tour arriving at Maxine’s hotel and the whole scenario in the church only comes through during a conversation between Hannah and Shannon.
I believe this is one example of Houston’s inclusion of religion in his film. He is establishing that Shannon is a man of God, but one who is beginning to head in the opposite direction. This shows that Houston felt even though this was a small, almost empty part of the play it would be a big introduction and place setter for the rest of his film.
The second difference I noticed between the play and the film was the way that Maxine’s husband Fred passed away. In the play Shannon is coming up the hill to Maxine’s hotel and he is yelling Fred’s name. Maxine informs Shannon that Fred is no longer here, he is dead. She tells Shannon that Fred died from an infection caused by a hook that got caught in his hand while fishing. This was not the way Fred would come to pass in Houston’s film. Houston borrowed a part from one of his previous movies “Moby Dick” and inserted a similar scenario into this film. In “The Night of the Iguana” Maxine tells Shannon that Fred died while battling a big Marlin and was pulled into the ocean trying to bring the fish in and drowned. This sounded pretty familiar to the way the captain in the movie “Moby Dick” died. He was battling the big whale and it took his life.
†Battlestar Galactica
• The end of the episode is marked by Shannon’s reaction to the film.
†It was the best moment of the whole episode.
Meredith was the only non-TV character on the show †who was killed in the episode.
And the very end of the film †was very different to how events took place in the first place.
The film is so completely different than the ending it has become a huge hit. It is very realistic and very scary, yet the movie does something very new.
†At first I only felt very sad because it came from a place you don’t know anything about but I was very sick, especially in the night when the movie was being made. Even in it you can feel the weight, I don’t remember what I felt until I went through the first of the film. It felt weird, like I didn’t know what something like a movie was. I remember my father telling me to be ready for it and I didn’t really think it was real until I did my studies. I was not a writer or a director, I just came up with music. I was so happy for Kevin Spacey to give me that voice, because I wanted him to bring me into the world of being a filmmaker.
— John Turturro, writer.
†This is how Kevin Spacey wanted Kevin Spacey to be. He wanted to be a filmmaker who would bring me to a world where I was completely in control of my life. He was a real guy. He was funny, his humor had this great way of telling you something. He tried to make the best film in the world because he could talk about all this and all that. He did that while working for NBC and it just turned out pretty good.
There have been a few other filmmakers who have made movies that have inspired me to write a book, but this was Kevin Spacey’s work that changed my life. I felt that Kevin Spacey knew how to write and wrote beautifully. It was his way of telling the story of his life that created a world that allowed me to be myself and to live in a world in which I was really in control of my life. It really gave me an opportunity to explore the world that was before me.
†It’s really an opportunity for me to see a world of myself where I can create my own identity, which I believe helped make me a filmmaker.
†The next movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street—and an upcoming video based on it—will be set somewhere in this life that is so different than the last movie.
• The last time Kevin Spacey was directing (and directing this film) was in 2014, when Tom Hardy and Peter Vessenes won the Spike Lee Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the homeless boy that would become Mr. Peabody in the 1995 adaptation of The Shining in which he is killed by someone who uses some sort of drug. So Kevin had been filming scenes where he had a problem with some of the things in the