The movie and the play "A Doll's House"

In the movie version of “A Dolls house,” The film director changes the way both Nora and Torvald are portrayed. In the movie Nora is dressed very well. She looks as though she is from a rich family and even her house is very rich and looks luxurious. The play doesn’t describe the same seen as it showed in the movie clip. The house in the movie clip looks incredibly rich whereas in the book it seems as though Nora and Torvald are in financial trouble. She also has her hair very well done and looks as though she is from a wealthy class. In the movie clip Nora is seen as being incredibly greedy. It seems as though the only thing she wants from her husband is money. It’s all she asks him for even for Christmas. The movie didn’t tell the viewers why Nora wanted the money. Just from the movie you would get the impression that she is very money hungry. In the book though she tells her friend Mrs. Linde the truth behind all of the money she asks for. The truth is her husband had to get help because he was dying. She realized that her husband was to prideful to borrow money from the bank so she took it into her own hands in order to try to get the money to save her husband although he believes that she borrowed it from her father. Another character that is portrayed differently in the movie as oppose to the actual play itself is Torvald. In the book I pictured Torvald to be a young looking man muscular and maybe a little bit childish looking. Although in the movie it portrayed him as an older man and he seemed a lot more mature than I had pictured him as. In the play he playfully talks with his wife Nora this action makes me see him as a much younger guy. The movie shows him to be older more mature and seems a lot more responsible than I had originally thought. In the movie Torvald is portrayed as an older rich business man. He seems to be relatively rich with his nice house and well dressed servants. He also talks very articulate in the movie, whereas in the play when he talked I pictured a much younger version of the man. In the play I pictured two young people talking in a dialogue but in fact I saw two older people who talk very maturely to each other. In the play the man and the women see as though they are incredibly in love and that they cant get enough of each other but in the movie it seems as though all of Nora’s love and desire for her husband is based around money. It doesn’t really make sense to me. Also in the book Nora seems a lot more secretive about the money than it shows in the movie. In the movie she’s almost begging him to give her money. It’s like it’s the only thing she cares about and she doesn’t even mention the children during the little movie clip she mostly just talks about money. It makes her out to be a very greedy person. Also the movie clip doesn’t show her interaction with her old friend Mrs. Linde. In the play this was a really strong part and gave the play a lot of meaning. Without this part in the movie it leaves the movie open for a lot of speculation and criticism. The movie portrays both characters differently compared to what the play shows them as. The movie leaves out a lot of parts that actually allow the play to come together in the book but without it in the movie it just doesn’t make any sense. If the movie maybe went on a little bit longer it would show more of the play and maybe it would allow us to understand the movie as oppose to the actual play more. The movie doesn’t live up to the writing of the play and it often doesn’t connect to the way the play is written. It also looks as though the play and the movie where both made in completely different time zones.