Motion Picture vs. Words

To me, Shakespeare's script for the play Julius Caesar is much better than the movie. One reason for this may be because of the evolution in movies over the years. Today, movies are filmed better and teenagers today.. well, we like stuff done the new way. The play itself has the power to be analyzed and an internal meaning can be found. The movie is based on the play (word for word) and basically plays what is written in the book. I believe that all great scriptures need to be read and not watched because they capture the essence of the past, and no movie can truly recapture the true past. This play was an extremely good choice for our persuasive unit because the speeches spoken all applied certain devices to persuade. The use of pathos, ethos, and rhetorical questions all forced the readers to interact with the story. This connection was never really established in the movie, and that is what definitely made the script better than the movie.