If you were turning "The Monkey's Paw" into a movie, what would you do to create the right atmosphere? Explain using details from the text! Comment on at least one other person's post.
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To get the correct atmosphere I would make the setting extremly dark. In the story the first description you read is "...small parlor of Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly" it seems to be a comfortable house but still kinda lonely, and dark. So in the movie i would have a dark setting, with blinds like in the story, and alittle bit depressing. But to make the setting not to emo, i would put the fire, as said in the story but also some object which would cheer things up, for example a flower pot maybe! I would also make the objects in the setting old, and expensive. Since theyre an old couple...i would make it a old, comfortable, smelly, expensive.
ReplyDeleteNice anna i like how you would make the movie and i think it would work!
ReplyDeleteI read Anna's response and i totally agree with it. I would make the setting extremely dark too. The story gives a sense of lonlyness and sadness and malinconic since they are an old coupple. In the movie, I would make a depressing atmosphere, a dark setting, and coloured objects that bring light.
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