![]() ![]() ![]() Rolling Stone Contact Rolling Stone by Email. My vote is slightly higher than the present IMDb average. Check out our gallery of Daniel Day-Lewis in 'The Crucible' By Rolling Stone. `The Crucible' in this excellent adaptation make this poignantly clear. The clothing is different, but the mentality producing the phobias is not. I mean to say, the devil exists in the minds of those who invent it the same cause as the `reds under the beds' phobia of the 1960s and 1970s, today transformed into `Islam Terror' around every corner. The Salem Witches have been the cause of a few forays by writers, historians and so on: really the whole affair seems to typicalize people's appetites for forming psychosis-like manias, often on the grounds of nothing very concrete. Neither of the two leading actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder will let you down. Highly recommended for conoisseurs of fine acting in the classic sense. Thus the effect is dramaturgical rather than cinematographic, a little like Branaghan doing his versions of Shakespeare. ![]() The Crucible, starring Winona Ryder and Daniel Day Lewis. I blow the dust off my 1973 Penguin copy of the play, and can follow some of the scenes almost verbatim. A free PowerPoint PPT presentation (displayed as an HTML5 slide show) on - id. Arthur Miller himself collaborated on the script, allowing certain poetic licence in modernising some of the speech forms, which, in the original play written around 1952-1953 reflected speech patterns of the times. Convincing scene-setting in Massachussets at the end of the 17th Century with heavy wood-framed farm buildings and typical North European immigrant peasants' clothing, all beautifully filmed. Nicholas Hytner certainly earnt his wages and all the cast should have received a good pay-rise. This is the second time I have been able to see this worthy conversion of Arthur Miller's classic play adapted to the screen. There is nothing I like better than a good play for the stage, even when it is on screen. ![]()
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