As always, feel free to bring up anything else you wish to discuss.
1. The film begins with a battle scene – how is this different from the text we read? Why do you think the film begins this way? How does this orient the viewer to the remainder of the film?
2. The film is devoid of magic (no love potion). Does this change our interpretation of the events?
3. How does the film portray Tristan, Isolde, and / or King Mark? Think of specific scenes to help you in your response. With whom do our sympathies lie?
4. In the text, it is Tristan who withholds his identity from Isolde. In the film we have the opposite – what might the film be saying about Isolde? About love?
5. How are the barons portrayed in the film? Do we have any ambiguity here as we do in the text? Why or why not?
6. Why do you think the film ends the way it does – very differently from the medieval tale? How does this ending change the interpretation of the story?
7. Ultimately, where does the focus of this film lie? On the relationship between Tristan and Isolde or elsewhere? Why do you think this?
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1. In the text the story started with the land being ruined because of a dragon which Tristan said he would go out and defeat so the land would become good again. The film begins like that most likely because they want to interest you and not bore you at the beginning. It makes you always wanting to expect more fights and be on top of your toes waiting for it.
ReplyDelete2. The film not having the potion does change our interpretation of the film because in the story that's one of the reasons of how Tristan and Yseut fell in love because of it but in the film Tristan and her fall in love when she is taking care of him.
3. The film portrays Tristan as a warrior who is in love, Yseut as the one who's tagging Tristan on with their love and King Mark as the clueless person. King Mark is seen as the poor man who gets betrayed by everybody.
4. Yseut is shown in the film as the sneaky, betrayal lieing person who sort of peer pressures Tristan.
5. The barons are pretty much the same as in the text because they are both jealous and annoying people because they are like the people in life who you hang out with and say something about somebody and they run back to the person and tell the person that you were saying things.
6. The film ends that way because they had to cut events out from the text because they didn't want to keep dragging the movie out because it would have been way too long.
7. The focus of the film is on the love of Tristan and Yseut. The love is seen as the theme of the movie. It relates to the time period so they want to show it would be.