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Now we can call it a semester!

Semester 1 over! From a simple boy who thought theater was only the set of acting and staging skills to a curious theater student who finds out theater can be present in various perspectives.  Before I dived into the world of theater, theater was only a stage with performers. I had no knowledge about theater at all that time. Though was my shallow made me pick this class. By now, I know that theater is a complex subject just like physics—with different styles, artists and its own history. Learning this subject means more than act stories out and staging. Learning the theater is about learning a history of stage performance and a history of the culture of a typical time. When we was studying Stanislavski, I thought he was all of the theater of the time. Nevertheless, he was only one theater theorist of the time, he was not the standard of every theater thing. As a result, there is not a right way to act out a story but there could be many ways to act it out. Sometimes, even tho...

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The whole movie is staged like a opera—relying on the lines to advance the plot which lost some vividness of what a film should be look like for me. However, this movie has a very distinctive style. The theme of the movie and the Shakespeare story should be forgiving and love and how the power turn people into evil and also could be the kindness of some people and the badness of some people. (Discuss with teacher) The music in the movie is quite outstanding. I have noticed that seems every time when someone wants to let off their greed or the willing to abuse the music changes into a rock style one. This arrangement alarms the audience every time when things happen. The music in the movie is more than music and it is like a sign of the ugly mentality. I have to discuss with the teacher about the techs that used in the movie. I like how Ariel has been acted out. He changes in forms when spelling. That gives a good representation of the magic which we cannot see often in a opera. G...