Reading Notes: Peter Brook's Mahabharata part B

The second part of the film was very interesting to me, seeing the sons of Pandu as all different race of men was funny. I thought that the adaptation of this was to make white people feel more comfortable with it, but just knowing that they would have been Indian and not white made me a little upset to see. This was just one of those things that I did not care for but I tried to not let it affect the way that I watched the movie. I know that the movie had a lot of good material in it, and I was excited to see an adaptation to the film. One of the pieces that stood out to me the most was the way that Drapudi prayed to Krishna and how Krishna granted her prayers. Though I do not remember the part where Drapudi was forced to have her clothes taken off of her in the actual epic, it definitely made for a way to understand the power that Krisna had in the epic itself. Krisna was obviously a large figure in the story and I am glad that he was made as a large figure in the film as well. Watching the part of the gambling match was really interesting as well. I liked the way that they gambled each person away one at a time, it made it more of exciting, hoping that at least one of the characters would not get won by the bad guys in the film. Knowing what was going to happen in the future though made me sad because I just knew after every roll that they would all get bet away into exile. I am excited to continue to watch the film and see what happens to the brothers through the films version of the story.

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Reading Notes: Mahabharata Film

So I decided that I would watch the film the Mahabharata by Peter Brook. The first part of the film that I watched was very interesting. I enjoyed it, but it was different to me, maybe thats because I don't have a great taste for older movies, or something of that sort, but it was truly interesting. I thought that parts of the film were rather mellow dramatic in the end, maybe a lot less dramatic then the actual story would say. I feel like everything in the storybook that we read was very dramatic. This film seemed to me just to make the story almost get to the dramatic level, but then it just dies. One scene that sticks out to me as being this form of melodramatic was the scene of Pandu's death. There was that of a build up between him and his wife and then all the sudden he just rolls over dead. It wasn't that I wanted to watch them make love or anything, but the whole scene just build and died so quickly that it made it kinda strange in my view, especially when I look at the story and see the drama that is added into it. Over all the story was good and I felt like it followed the epic really well to the best of my knowledge, I enjoyed seeing it played out by humans in "real life". It made the story more real to me and helped me to understand how in human ways of life these events could have played out. I really did enjoy this film as interesting as it was. I am excited to continue to watch the film and see how this adaptation finishes. I am hoping to see it follow the rest of the epic as closely as possible.

Peter Brook's Mahabharata

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