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Setting:
Rural Victoria possibly wheat farmers suffering in drought.
Inner city Melbourne the trendy area of windsor/prahan.

Characters:
Campbell The reasonably intelligent character with a strong will to succeed, that always has a plan for how to reach his goals
Calvin The tall strong oaf with little in the linguistic or academic department.

Plot: The two main characters will be aged around 20-26 each Campbell being the older of the two.


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I think Of Mice and Men is about the story of two best friends living life in the late 1920's during the great depression. Fitting with this time period the two are out of work and rely on each other to keep striving to earn money and develop a better life. Throughout the book the two experience a few lows but mostly life seems quite calm for them. It also is a representation of the pursuit of the American dream for a care free life with animals, no bills etc.. This pursuit of the dream is what… Continue

For QE one i did question one.
I found that there a quite a few striking differences between reading the book and watching the film in Mice and Men but these differences also usually apply to many other film adaptations of novels.
The first being the differences between ones imagination and what the director felt the character should be portrayed like. This is of course different for all people but i for one did not imagine Lennie to be as "slow" as he was depicted in the film, sure i saw a slig… Continue

Scene i felt was poorly done.

I think Baz Lurhman took away from the beauty of the original play with this opening scene which tries to be so many things at once but ultimately makes a mockery of the two rival families and ends up confusing the viewer. I think a key mistake Baz Lurhman made was giving the scene a western feel from the corny music to the squeaking of the fuel sign; it just didn’t feel right especially after viewing the rest of the film. The script, although cut down greatly stil… Continue

This was a draft i lost the complete one.
Does any character differ from the way you imagined them?
When we first came across the topic of R&J I had not read the play but of course already had heard a basic rundown of the plot and a could remember a few characters, yet by the time clips of Baz lurhmans adaptation were played in class I still had no idea who most of the characters were. So my basic ideas revolved around what was presented in the modern day reenactment of the play, some of the… Continue