*Much Ado About Nothing Assignment*

1. The vow that Don John made was that he will woo Hero and make it his business to stop Don Pedro or Claudio from wooing Hero.
2. Claudio is in love with Leonato’s daughter, Hero.
3. The perspective of love between Benedick and Beatrice is that because they are always arguing when together. It is said that he will never love her and she will never love him. A plan was made to setup Benedick with Beatrice, hoping that as a result they will stop hiding their love for each other and fall in love and eventually they did.
4. The plan executed by Don Pedro is to disguise as Claudio and woo Hero and in the end hook them up, which will eventually lead to Claudio marrying Hero (his love).

*Comments on the music:

1.    At the beginning of the movie the words spoken by Beatrice was accompanied by soft playing music.

2.    When Don Pedro, Benedick, Claudio, Balthasar and Don John were arriving, the music was hype and it also has an essence or meaning of when someone of royalty is making a grand entrance.

3.    The music is arranged or chosen to suit the words of the actors giving it a sense of sweetness or harshness.

Example: 

·         For soft words the music is soothing and sweet.

·         If the words are harsh, the music is rough and not soothing.

*Comparing the book and the movie.

In the text we read and maybe imagine differently from what is shown in the movie. 

The movie starts with Beatrice speaking among people, repeating the exact words of the song in act two, scene three, and page fifty- one but at the beginning of the text is a conversation with Leonato, his wife, Hero, Beatrice and a messenger about Don Pedro’s arrival.

Also, I noticed that certain parts of the movie, the actors repeat the exact words as in the text but in some parts of the movie some of the words are left out or not said as in the text.

The setting of the movie is also different, in some areas, to that of the text.

 Example:                                                                                                            

• The first scene of the text (The conversation about Don Pedro’s arrival). You expect them to be in a setting where is them alone but not acquainted with no one else.

*What I have notice or realize about the actors of the movie, is that they are all or if not all, some are movie stars. The actors are not randomly chosen to act the part.              

Example:

• Denzil Washington as Don Pedro.
• Keanu Reeves as Don John (the bastard bother)                             

In the book the actors seem more of the century the book was written.