The Modern Performances of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DivPsjOi8jU[/youtube] Baz Luhrmann’s film adaption of William Shakespeare’s classical play Romeo and Juliet offers a fresh outlook on a work that often does not appeal to the modern audience. Through the use of bright color, dramatic scenes with exaggerated movements, Luhrmann […]
Vector: Frankenstein–> Young Frankenstein
Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is often called the first science fiction novel. It handles themes such as creator vs created, parallel to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, and the dangers of modern science. Just as we discussed in […]
Vector: Charlie’s Angels (1970)–> Charlie’s Angels (2011)
The 2011 Charlie’s Angels television drama aired to a hopeful audience and yet dismal ratings. It is based mostly on the 1970s drama of the same title but also draws from the 2000 movie adaptation where the show’s producer (Drew […]
Vectors: Silence of the Lambs–> Hannibal
The film Silence of the Lambs quickly became a cult classic after its release in 1991, when it broke box office records, raking in an impressive $351,692,268 (even though Jodie Foster was replaced as Clarice). The sequel features the psychopathic […]
Vector: Kardashian Kolor–> Keeping Up With The Kardashians
The Kardashian name was first brought to attention during the trial of OJ Simpson. Robert Kardashian, a high-power attorney, made up a fraction of the famous football player’s defense team. Nine years later, a sex tape between “singer” Ray-J […]
Vector: The Bible–> Eve The Original Sinner Blog
Life of The First Woman is a blog by Eve The Original Sinner, written by me. The blog takes the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and adapts it to a new medium through the eyes of Eve herself. In […]
Vector: The Hunger Games–> Battle Royale
***Be careful: This contains Spoilers!!!! Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games can be seen as an American adaptation to the earlier Japanese novel by Koushun Takami, Battle Royale. Both novels take place in a post-apocalyptic world where one large governing […]
Vector: The Bible–> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis is a famous Christian writer who often places Christian and Biblical themes within his novel. Arguably his most famous work is the fantastical children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia, which begins with Book One: The Lion, the Witch […]
The Matrix- A Complex, Modern Adaptation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3WGf9pX0A[/youtube] “The Matrix”, a 1999 film by the Wachowski brothers, adapts a number of new and ancient philosophies about the truth behind reality, but the most central to the overarching framework of the film is adapted from Plato’s Allegory of […]
Vector: The Truman Show –> The Real World
The Real World debuted in 1992 just before the reality show genre’s popularity boomed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. MTV’s The Real World was not the first reality TV show, in fact the genre started in the 1940s […]
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