Week 9: Reading Diary A

Peter Brook's movie Mahabharata reminds me of the old biblical movies about Moses and Jesus Christ. The movie starts out with Ganeesh, Valmikil, and a child. It starts off like the reading however instead Ganeesh reading its Valmikil. What i like most about this movie is that they did not try to get Indian actors. Coming from an Indian background, An Indian accent with English can sometimes be hard to understand. Using actors of various races makes it easier to listen too. There is one actor though I Think plays multiple parts or has a brother who also in the film. They incorporated the time skips well too using dialogue between Ganeesh and Valmikil to explain whats going on. Peter brooks stayed pretty close to the books rarely ever straying far from it. One example would be the scene of Valmikil, Krishna, and the child.  You can see many stories in Mahabharata being incorporated in the story. Like the gambling match around  1:21:43 when Draupadi is gambled away or around 2:41:25 you can see Draupudi worry about her life because Arjuna has become a dancer and the rest of her husbands are washing rice. One thing I did not like was that in some scenes that stayed consistent in the story should be done differently. There fight scenes where the aggressor would be talking while he is attacking. I think it would been better done if it was narrated so it did not look so awkward. I decided to stop at  2:45:00 because I accidentally went over the week 1A reading.

(Peter Brook's MAhabharata, Websource: Wikipedia)