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Coursework
Show how the film ‘Educating Rita’ shows the advantages over the plays
Educating Rita tells a story of two people from the opposite ends of life. An uneducated working class woman finally realises the value of education and class and with the assistance of her alcoholic upper class tutor Frank Bryant, she embarks on a journey to gain the knowledge that she deeply yearns for.
There are many advantages that a film has over a production of a play. It would be inconvenient and problematic to have lots of settings and changes therefore we immediately know that the film ‘Educating Rita’ has more advantages over the play. It has close up shots of the characters and different settings. The ‘burning books’ scene is a great example of this. In this scene Denny (Rita’s husband) find a pack of Contraceptive pills which Rita has been taking. Outraged he throws all of Rita’s books into a flame. We see Rita and the books through many different angles. One of the shots includes us looking at the burning books from Rita’s point. This makes us feel empathy. We also see Rita from where the books are burning. At this point we feel sympathy for her as we see the expression on her face how miserable she is about her books. In the play we would not see Denny burning Rita’s books and Rita helplessly just standing there from this amount of angles. We are only able to see the play from one angle which is from out seats.
