transformations

Transformations

The process of transformation involves more than just the adaption of ideas and form to contemporary situations

The process of transformation involves more than an adaption of ideas and form to contemporary situations. It offers the audience with a greater sense of clarity of the ideas presented, and its representation also stimulate the audience with new perspectives with which to view the original text. The movie Clueless directed by Amy Heckerling is a transformation of Emma by Jane Austen. The universal themes explored in Emma allow for effective correlations in Clueless whilst the differences in time and setting of the two societies account for the necessary adaptions of form and techniques used to communicate the similar ideas of the texts. In Emma, Austen's extensive use of dialogue, description and authorial intrusions allow for more vivid characterisations whilst the bright colours, music and camera angles articulated in Clueless convey the essentially sa...