What's the Difference between A Midsummer Night's Dream the Book and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) the Movie?
In the Book |
In the Movie |
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Lysander
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Lysander
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helena
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helena
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hermia
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hermia
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puck
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puck
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oberon
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oberon
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titania
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titania
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Demetrius
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Demetrius
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Nick Bottom
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Nick Bottom
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BallerJay
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
The Love-in-Idleness flower is described as deep purple by Oberon. |
The flower is given this same description but is actually red instead. |
They never mentioned anything about the bycicle. |
The characters used the bycicle.
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No Light or torch |
Torch |
There is no mud pit. |
There is a mud pit that Hermia and Helena fall in while in the woods, this scene was used for dramatic effect.
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It was said that the two couples (Helena, Lysander, Demetrius,Hermia) ran off into the woods near Athens |
In the movie, the couples do run off into the woods, but there are some italian ruins in the forest. This is not mentioned in the book. |