Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing

• TEAM CHEERIOS

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The Original
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Major Characters

• Benedick a lord friend of Don Pedro
• Claudio a lord friend of Don Pedro
• Don Pedro a prince
• Leonato a governor
• Hero Leonatos only daughter
• Beatrice Leonatos niece
• Don John Don Pedros scheming, jealous
  half-brother

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Themes

• Hidden Feelings Denial
• Love is blind
• Deception Belief
• Social Status Reputation
• Marriage

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General Plot

• Setting Spain, 16th century
• 3 friends, Don Pedro, Benedick, and Claudio
  return from war victorious
• Their good friend Leonato throws them a welcome
  back party
• There, Claudio falls in love with Hero, daughter
  of Leonato, Benedick continues to trade insults
  with Beatrice, Leonatos neice
• Pedros bastard half brother, Don John, shows up
  and tries to ruin everything

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(Continued..)

• Claudio and Hero decide to get married
• In the meantime, everybody plots to get Benedick
  and Beatrice together
• Don John despises Claudio for being on good terms
  with his half-brother Pedro sets out to destroy
  him
• Don John gets his henchman Borachio to frame
  Hero, Claudio believes it to be true

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(Continued..)

• Hero, ashamed, fakes her own death
• Eventually, Don John is found out and Claudio and
  Hero get back together and marry
• Beatrice and Benedick get together too, finally
  admitting their love
• Don John is to be brought to justice after the
  wedding of Claudio and Hero, and that of Beatrice
  and Benedick as well

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Our Adaption
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Characters

• Benedick the best detective who works under
  Pedro
• Beatrice a detective Benedicks co-worker
• Pedro the boss of Benedick and Beatrice
• Claudio friend of Benedick and Pedro
• Hero Claudios (shallow) love interest
• Don John Pedros half-brother a stalker
• Christie Heros sister replaces Heros maid in
  the original

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General Plot

• Original play is adopted into a cop/detective
  film, modern-day
• Hero and Claudio do not immediately fall in love,
  but stay close to the original in that they do
  not date for long
• John takes advantage of a misunderstanding, and
  frames Hero
• Instead of faking her own death, Hero is then
  kidnapped by John
• Pedro assigns Beatrice and Benedick to the same
  case, hoping to get them together

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(Continued..)

• Only Claudio and Hero are married in the end, but
  the possibility of a relationship between
  Benedick and Beatrice is implied
• Benedick does not claim to never want to be in a
  relationship, while in the original play, he is a
  very uptight man
• (Same with Beatrice)
• John is still jealous of his brother, but mostly
  of Claudio and Heros relationship

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Themes Revisited

• Deception and misunderstanding
• Hidden feelings and denial
• Reputation and social status
• Shallow love

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Music

• Introduction
• Happy note to start off the film
• Bar
• Romantic music
• Dates
• Happy music to signify (temporary) happiness
• Don John
• Whenever Don John shows up, he gets angry music
  because he is jealous and upset that he cannot
  have what others have
• Investigation
• Epic music to match their epic entrance
  (exaggerated)
• Chase Scene
• Fast-paced music to match the chasing and the
  climax of the film
• Wedding Scenes
• The first one (in which everything goes awry) is
  backed by sad music
• The second (which succeeds) has happier music to
  match the mood
• Credits
• The credit music was chosen to be nondestructive
  and also lead to a calm ending

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Costuming

• Benedick wears a trench coat and tie and yields a
  large gun shows his role as detective
• Beatrice has black hair (different from Hero) and
  also dresses up as a detective
• Claudio starts out wearing a funny shirt implies
  his simple-mindedness also wears casual attire
• Hero has red hair to differentiate from Beatrice
  and her sister wears casual attire
• Pedro wears a suit and tie (formal attire) shows
  his role as detective boss
• John often wears strange clothing to show his
  strangeness and is portrayed as a stalker