Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play. In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors p

Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play. In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors p
Graded Discussion #8–Performance Analysis #1 No unread replies.No replies. Please watch the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun” adaptation of Hansberry’s play.  In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors portray the characters from the text. What do you feel was most effective or powerful?  Can you point to specific moments / scenes / lines? This website (Internet Movie Database) provides information re: cast, crew, trivia, and technical specs: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098166/ (Links to an external site.) Please compose a ~200-word response. Please respond to two (2) posts from other students (~50-100 words each).   ***Students should consider typing / composing all of their posts in Microsoft Word or Google Docs (or some other program) and then cutting-and-pasting the material into Canvas in case of a technology failure (thus preventing the student from losing their work entirely).
Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play. In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors p
Graded Discussion #9–Performance Analysis #2 No unread replies.No replies. Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play.  In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors portray the characters from the text. What do you feel was most effective or powerful?  Can you point to specific moments / scenes / lines? This website (Internet Movie Database) provides information re: cast, crew, trivia, and technical specs: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098166/ (Links to an external site.) Please compose a ~200-word response. Please respond to two (2) posts from other students (~50-100 words each).   ***Students should consider typing / composing all of their posts in Microsoft Word or Google Docs (or some other program) and then cutting-and-pasting the material into Canvas in case of a technology failure (thus preventing the student from losing their work entirely).
Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play. In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors p
Graded Discussion #8–Performance Analysis #1 No unread replies.No replies. Please watch the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun” adaptation of Hansberry’s play.  In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors portray the characters from the text. What do you feel was most effective or powerful?  Can you point to specific moments / scenes / lines? This website (Internet Movie Database) provides information re: cast, crew, trivia, and technical specs: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098166/ (Links to an external site.) Please compose a ~200-word response. Please respond to two (2) posts from other students (~50-100 Discussion #8 Responds Jude Manage Discussion Entry “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry (1961)  This is a story of a small impenetrable circular family (The Youngers), full of emotions, hilarious and overall, very educating scenes and characters. A family whom their bread winner, Mr. Younger (father and husband) passed away leaving his wife, Lena Younger (Mama), a disciplinarian, with the responsibilities of taking care of the entire family. Fortunately, he was a very hard-working man and left some good saving, ten thousand dollars insurance money behind which Mama and the entire family would wait for, a long time, before it finally came. The expectations and the huge plans for the money caused a great deal of problems within the household, Mr. Walter Lee Younger, son, and the man of the house, needed all the money to pursue his dream, the liquor business, Miss Beneatha Younger, Walter Lee’s baby sister wants some, for her medical school, but Mama had her own plans as well. Mr. Walter Lee and Bobo were swindled by Mr. Willy their co-investor and the remaining $6500, meant partly for Beneatha’s medical school and for checking account in his care was gone. Thankfully, Mama had earnestly procured a befitting house in a beautiful white neighborhood, Clybourne Park for the family.  The high point of the story was the surprising manly decision by Walter Lee in the presence of his son, Travis, wife, Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama to move to the new house instead of taking the huge offer of money to dissuade them from moving in by the improvement committee in Clybourne Park. As he put it “we have decided to move into our house because my father earned it brick by brick,” with emotional tears rolling down every chick. A proud united and happy family. Kane Manage Discussion Entry In this 1961 film, Walter is displayed as a father who wants to do right by his family and be able to provide things for that family.  Mama is portrayed as a caring mother who wants her family to do well and stay together.  Beneatha is focused on becoming a doctor and has strong feelings toward her brother, vocalizing this throughout.  I believe that one of the most powerful scenes to be the one was when Walter lost the money and mama talks about how hard her husband worked throughout his life to providing for his family.             The other scene recalled is when Karl Lindner returns the second time.  Mama makes Travis stay in the room to see what his father Walter will do for the family’s future.  With his son present, Walter has a change of heart and decides that keeping the house and occupying it is best for the family.  In this adaptation, Lena (mama) seems to have a dream to support the family together.  In part, during the time that this was written, there was a battle for civil rights going on led by Dr. Martin Luther King.  I believe there is some Propaganda toward racism and prejudice here where Lindner tries to buy the family out of the neighborhood.  Because Lindner claims that “people who’ve work hard as the dickens for years to build up that little community.”  I paused after reading this and thought to myself; the youngers had not worked hard? Linder then says, “those little homes and a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children in.”  this is the very thing the Youngers are looking for, but because of their skin color, the Clybourne Park Improvement Association did not want them there.     Cited works      Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun: A Drama in Three Acts. Random House, 1959.
Please watch the 1989 filmed “A Raisin in the Sun” stage production / adaptation of Hansberry’s play. In your response, please comment on performance elements—that is, the ways in which the actors p
Graded Discussion #9— compose a ~200-word response. Please respond to two (2) posts from other students (~50-100 Discussion # David The 1989 film adaptation is more in line with the original play by Hansberry than the 1961 film adaptation. At 26:17 Bennie enters the room and goes on to ask what could be so dirty on that woman’s rug that she has to vacuum them everyday. From there on it recites word for word the conversation between Ruth, Mama, and Bennie. This goes to show us the effectiveness the actors and actresses display as they are able to perform more sciences from the original play, giving more to the movie and what it has to offer.  There is more of a straightforwardness to the 1961 film than to the 1989 adaptation. The 1961 version gets to more important points where as in the 1989 film, there is more to it. It displays more of the emotions that are expressed in the original playwright. For example, like the conversation between Ruth and Mama. At 23:04 Ruth expresses her excitement to Mama about get out of their “rat trap.” This thus begins a conversation about Mama’s late husband. This ends around 26:15. This conversation is powerful and emotional as it shows us that just like Walter, her late husband also had big dreams as well. She goes on to say that her late husband (whose name is also Walter) love his kids and always wanted them to achieve great things. Walter would say “Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams but He did give us children to make those dreams worthwhile.” Here we are given a powerful insight to the existential problems that Walter faced and that also foreshadows what young Walter goes through as well.  Danilson In Bill Duke’s 1989 screenplay for A Raisin in the Sun, Danny Glover delivers a moving performance when thinking about all that money his mother is going to receive from her late husband’s life insurance policy. Walter wakes up the day before the check arrives and keeps hounding his wife Ruth about what to do with the insurance money. Danny Glover’s portrayal of Walter in this scene displays a man who wants nothing more than to chase his dream. Even when his wife tries to deter him, he can’t help but push further into explaining his ambitions. Walter’s bulldog nature meets a dead end when Ruth deflects by telling him to eat his eggs. Glover’s delivery after being hit with a brick wall shows an excellent depiction of what it’s like to not be heard. Glover’s Walter goes on to say, “That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. (Sadly, but gaining in power.) Man say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. (Passionately now.) Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say—(In utter anguish as he brings his fists down on his thighs.).—- Your eggs is getting cold!”. Walter is looking for others to understand and realize his dream with him. No one wants to hear it and Glover does a phenomenal job of showing the swelling frustration within Walter’s mind.