Doll's house movie critique

In the movie a doll’s house the director made choices to adapt the play differently than what was written. A movie and a book are very different and may require some adapting to create a clean good product where as a book would not face the same challenges writing a book than directing a movie.

In the Movie Nora walks in wearing a red fur coat which is a symbol of wealth whereas in the book the couple are made to seem like they have a lot less money because they have to save up and spend “Carefully” in the book. The movie also shows Torvald wearing a suit which most people who have to spend their money carefully, can not afford.

In the movie and in the book Nora is made to seem like a spendthrift and Torvald treats her like a child both in the movie and in the book. But the movie adds more to it when Torvald waves dollar by dollar at her because in the book it makes it seem like he’s just counting the money instead of waving the money at her.



In the book it dosent seem like the people aren’t as rich as the movie makes it seems

The clothes the girl wears makes her seem like she is really a lot more rich than the book leads on because they had to spend the movie more wisely so wouldn’t that make them more poor whereas in the movie the woman walks in with a fur coat and the man is wearing a suit

The movie adds more to their relationship with the money waving

The age difference is more significant in the movie whereas the book the reader could picture them being the same age

The woman seems a lot more like a nagging child in the movie instead of someone’s wife in the movie

That tree fits both the movie and the book well because the tree has no real description in the book where as the movie the tree is thin and does not have much to it which contradicts the wealth the couple have established in the movie. Because the reader would expect after seeing the woman’s fur coat and the man’s suit and the talk about the housekeepers that the tree would be more full and big

Although both in the movie and the book the woman seems to be a spendthrift in both