Our scene has many similarities with the book, but we changed many things slightly creating a creative interpretation. For example, we took Ti Moune’s obsession with Daniel as our main similarity/interpreted aspect. We emphasize how ridiculous her level of care for him is. In our version, Ti Moune was the car crash victim. This changes the storyline, but it makes our interpretation of Ti Moune’s love more prominent. It shows our audience how irrational Ti Moune’s obsession is. Even though she is the one that is hurt, she thinks she needs to take care of Daniel. In addition, he acts like a normal doctor to her, meaning that he treats her like he cares about her health, but not in a flirty way. She takes his actions as a doctor to mean more than they do and thinks that he forgot about her. She reminds him of the plot of My Love, My Love, but this is not what actually happened. This is the equivalent of when Ti Moune sees Daniel at the Hotel Beauxhomme and Daniel does not know she saved him. She reminds him assuming he will fall instantly in love with the girl who saved him because they had a “connection”.
Our scene recreates the storyline of My Love, My Love through the main plot and the story in Ti Moune’s head. Some of this should be evident in our scene and other parts are more subtle. Another aspect that we took from the book is the way the gods all speak through Papa Ge’s body. In our scene, the gods are the same person- a person with multiple personality disorder. This patient shows up to give Ti Moune advice, but similar to the book, they end up arguing with each other. Making the gods one person, adds a comedic character. The gods, especially Papa Ge, make sarcastic comments to the other gods. Each god also has a god complex, meaning they think they are better than the other gods. This is comedic too because the gods are the same person. The gods add ridiculousness to the scene that adds to the irrationality of Ti Moune’s character. The only other character who knows the plot of My Love, My Love, which Ti Moune irrationally thinks is true, is the gods. The gods seem ridiculous and unreal showing the audience that Ti Moune is also crazy. In other words, because the gods are unreal and believe that Daniel’s car crashed, while a sane character, like Daniel believes different, a false sense of what happened is created. This adds to the make believe ideas Ti Moune has, showing her obsession in a different light than the book.
The gods, as mentioned above, are my biggest personal struggle. It is difficult to portray a multiple personality disorder patient in a realistic way. Even though I am an imaginary character and should not be completely realistic, I do have to seem somewhat real. I cannot over-act because it will make the character ridiculous. However, if I do not act strange enough, it takes away from our message about being ridiculous and irrational. In addition, under doing it will be weird in a scene where many of our lines are strange. Furthermore, I struggle changing smoothly between the gods. I am slowly making progress, but I still need to run it many more times to make the transitions more natural. As Andrea, I think I am doing well. I need to work on cheating out a little more because I feel like I am always turned. My biggest problem with Andrea is going to be changing quick enough. Overall, practice makes perfect.
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Title: Once On This Island
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