Theme Evidence from Twelfth Night Evidence from She’s the Man Why this idea has been

Explain an idea Identify 3 key quotes and accompanying Identify 3 key quotes/scenes from the film and appropriated for a
about this theme techniques from the play their accompanying techniques
in a full sentence
modern audience?
One sentence explanation about
why Fickman has represented
this.

Love and desire: 1. In the film, Flickman

1.Both 1. Shakespeare reveals how unrequited love
composers makes Orsino ‘sicken’ and become deeply
represent how melancholy. This is evident when at the very
beginning of the play, Orsino says “If music
love or desire
be the food of love, play on; Give me excess
can be a key
of it, that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken
motivator in
and so die”. Shakespeare uses extended
choices and metaphor to convey how Orsino is so ‘sick’
behaviours, but with love he wants to be cured of it by
in different ways having excess of something else, in the hope
that excess of it, (the way overeating can)
cure your fondness for it.
-Duke’s crush on Olivia-science lab scene appropriates the idea of love
Duke is characterised in a similar way to and transforms it into Duke’s
Orsino in (TN) – a little hopeless and forlorn crush on Olivia, modernising
in pursuing his love interest. This is evident the notion of love and
in the science lab pair up scene, when upon making it more about ‘desire’
seeing Olivia, Duke whispers “Oh My God,
she’s in our class!”, visibly shrinking into
himself and covering his face with his hand,
suggesting he lacks the confidence in being
able to connect with Olivia.

2. Orsino argues that “there is no woman’s

sides Can bide the beating of my heart; no
woman’s heart so big, to hold so much. They
lack retention.” The use of comparative
language conveys her Orsino boasts of his
2. Both
capacity for love being greater than any
Shakespeare and
woman’s.
Flickman convey
how attitudes
and the way love 3. Olivia falls in love with Cesario, not because of
is shown shifts
his appearance, so much as his ability to deliver
2. Duke in high angle shot, saying “when I’m
with someone, I think it should be about
more than just the physical stuff”,
emphasising is vulnerable and gentler
attitude to love and attraction
3. While Flickman similarly represents the
mistaken affections Olivia forms for the
2. Flickman diverges from
Shakespeare’s original script
by making his central male
character less boastful and
more modest, in line with
what would appeal to a 21st
century largely female ‘chick
flick’ audience
3. Flickman alters the catalyst
for Olivia’s attraction to
over time such beautiful love poetry. This is evident when
Cesario speaks in verse of love to Olivia, saying
“Make me a willow cabin at your gate, and call
upon my soul within the house, write loyal
cantons of contemned love, and sing them loud
3. Both
even in the dead of night”. Use of iambic
composers show
pentameter gives the words resonance and
how women fall
lyrical beauty, whilst the emotive diction and
in love based on hyperbole conveys the powerful intensity of
more than just Viola’s feelings, which Olivia mistakenly believes
looks are aimed at her.
4. Both texts 4.By the final stages of Act 5, all evidence of the
have happy deceit and disguise have been revealed, with
endings Orsino proposing marriage to Viola, saying
“since you called me master for so long, Here is
my hand; you shall from this day be Your
master’s mistress”. His use of this play on words
reveals his changed perception of Viola, while
also suggesting the expectation of a change in
Viola’s role due to her gender.
Disguise and
disguised Viola, Flickman changes the
basis of the attraction slightly, by making
it Viola’s honestly and ‘refreshing’ lack of
hypermasculinity what makes him
attractive when Viola asks Olivia to ‘take
the reigns’ on the frog dissection.
Flickman’s use of two shot showing
Olivia and Viola in mid shot emphasises
how they come to the interaction on an
honest and equitable level.
4. Flickman similarly offer a romantic
resolution to the dynamic between Viola
and Duke, capturing their connection
with a mid shot of them kissing in low
key soft lighting to emphasise their
romantic connection. He also pays
homage to the trope of disguise in the
romantic comedy genre, with Duke
saying “in future, things would be a
whole lot easier, if you stayed a girl”.
Viola/Sebastian by
positioning audiences to
understand that honesty and
the ability to treat a woman
as ‘an equal’ is what makes a
man attractive to a woman.
This change is in line with the
different textual context,
conveying the values of
equity and respect for
women. These perhaps were
not championed in
Shakespearian times the
same way they are in the 21st
century.
4. Flickman retains key
elements of the
Shakespeare’s romantic
comedy, yet in some ways
diverges from the play by
privileging Duke’s sense of
betrayal at the football
game, suggesting the 21st
century man is more
sensitive than a
Shakespearian nobleman.
Despite this, the essence of
the narrative is maintained,
made possible by Flickman’s
apt use of the chick flick
genre.
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