A MidSummer Night’s Dream

A MidSummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare was turned into a movie in 1999. Popular celebrities became Shakespearean actors using old English. The play which was once a romantic comedy was transformed by Hollywood into something, well different. The movie version of the book was interesting. The maker had a different point of view in how the film was shot and how the characters acted.
The film and the book had some major differences. In Shakespeare’s play, he makes the characters Athenian. The characters in the movie were clearly not Athenian. The women wore long flowing dresses and the men wore trousers. Also, the hats and accessories worn by the women were English. The setting of the film seemed to be in Italy during Shakespeare’s time.
Michael Hoffman, the director also changed the technology used in the film. The characters rode wooden bicycles. The book talked about the characters running from each other instead of riding a bicycle. This changed the mood ...