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	The Crucible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Crucible is a play that was written by Arthur Miller in 1952.
		It is based on the events surrounding the 1692 witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts.
		Arthur Miller, Why I Wrote "The Crucible", published in the October 21 and October 28, 1996 issues of The New Yorker, pages 158–164.
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	The Crucible
		The Crucible is a play written and published by Arthur Miller in 1953.
		The Crucible is a horror film made in 1957 and remade in 1996.
		The Crucible is a theatre in Sheffield, England; see Crucible Theatre[?].
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	The Crucible Movie Review
		For a film desparately relying on the power of its actors, the director had to pick the perfect cast, and he has nearly done just that.
		Her character is one of the smartest in the film.
		The Crucible is rated PG-13 for the intense depiction of the Salem Witch Trials.
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	The Crucible - Arthur Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And yet there is one major exception to this truism: Arthur Miller's The Crucible, born as an intense response to the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950's, has somehow managed to escape the fate of yesterday's newspaper.
		Judged insufficiently radical and experimental in the sixties and seventies, Miller's stature in the English-speaking theater was renewed in Britain, where an ironic, non-rationalist postmodern sensibility had not taken hold.
		What is really needed for The Crucible is a true theatrical ensemble such as the Royal National Theatre, which presented in 1990 a revival I unfortunately did not see (led by current Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson as Proctor) which, by all accounts, was cohesive from top to bottom.
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	Why did Arthur Miller write the Crucible ?
		Even if this TV film seems to give Cohn more importance than he really had, it demonstrates that, obviously, Cohn and McCarthy were two of a kind.
		Michael Wilson, the screenwriter of famous films such as A Place in the Sun (about to be awarded a prize when he was called to testify), The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia (which won the Academy Award) never saw his name in the credits.
		Films and actors were known everywhere in the country, whereas spectacles used to stay on Broadway or on the East Coast.
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	DVD Verdict Review - The Crucible
		In the 1996 film adaptation, which arrives on DVD for the first time, Miller's story is presented as a relatively straightforward historical drama, but one whose timelessness is undimmed.
		Miller himself scripted the film from his own play, and no doubt this is why the film retains the integrity and eloquence of the original stage work.
		The widescreen transfer is particularly valuable for a film like this one, whose cinematography is skillfully used to create a sense of space, showing us vistas of this promising new land that is already falling prey to corruption.
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	The Crucible [1997] Video at Shop Ireland
		The film portrays the growth of the mass witch craze in Salem, Massachussetts in 1692.
		As you watch The Crucible, bear in mind that though this is not necessarily an accurate historical interpretation of what happened in Salem during the witch craze, the horrifying events that take place in this film aren't far from the truth.
		The Crucible is gripping, yet it is also frightening and terrible in the inexorable march of its protagonists towards their doom.
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	ChatTimes Movie Reviews: "The Crucible" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This agile film is so simply, abstractly rooted in Salem's soil that it becomes free to suggest anything from the impact of religious fundamentalism on politics to the hysterical excess of tabloid television.
		The film's opening sequence shakes Salem's primness to its roots, depicting the ritual that was only spoken about in Miller's original version.
		Also here are Bruce Davison as a clergyman susceptible to political pressures, Rob Campbell as a slick, ambitious young inquisitor, Jeffrey Jones as a landowner who sees profit in his neighbors' misfortune and Karron Graves as the girl with the backbone to defy Abigail as she discovers what secular witchcraft really means.
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	ttk-issue
		Miller wrote the original play, The Crucible, in the 1950’s, which was during the McCarthy Era, when people were afraid of being condemned by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his party for being supposedly associated with the communist party.
		Through watching this film, we realize that we like to believe that we are individuals and think for ourselves, but we let too many people persuade us to go against our own beliefs just so we can be accepted.
		The reason for his decision in supporting the film version is unknown, but he could not have reached such a wide audience if he had not have made that decision.
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	Free Essays on The Crucible - Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is precisely what happens in the film The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), which was originally written as a play by Arthur Miller.
		The Crucible is certainly historically accurate in it's portrayal of the townspeople's beliefs and attitudes.
		It is a film that should be seen to view the way people were in the seventeenth century.
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	Essay: How successful is the film in presenting Millers Play The Crucible? - Coursework.Info
		How successful is the film in presenting Millers Play "The Crucible" Personally I believe that the film is an excellent rendition of the play.
		The film relies much more on telling the audience what is going on visually than with speech as in the play because of the cinemas ability to do this.
		The characters in the film are very well portrayed but I feel that the following were by far the best.
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	Review: The Crucible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Those unaware of the film's background may be surprised to learn that such a dynamic production began life in the theater.
		Late in the film, her eyes express the horror that she feels as the crushing ramifications of her masquerade emerge.
		As thematically rich as The Crucible is, it would be a dry and uninteresting piece if the characters and their situations were less compelling.
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	Essay: Look at the opening of Nicolas Hytners film of The Crucible and discuss how ...
		Look at the opening of Nicolas Hytner's film of "The Crucible" and discuss how tension and suspense are raised through cinematic features.
		The play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller has created tension and suspense by using many devices such as arguments, though I am going to as best as I can to show how tension and suspense are created in Nicolas Hytner's film "The crucible" using cinematic features.
		As soon as the film begins tension is raised, the opening credits show that this film is going to be a serious and I thought maybe a bit scary.
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	The Crucible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film's script was written by Arthur Miller who wrote the original play in 1953.
		The film brought back memories of my own teen age and reminded me that in order to receive my high school diploma (in 1954) I had to sign a loyalty oath along with all my school mates.
		The Crucible comes out at a time when our country is engaged in an ongoing struggle against a militant conservatism which would impose on all Americans a code of uniformity of belief reflecting a bygone era during which minorities of all kinds were allowed to be abused simply because they lacked power.
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	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Crucible (1996)
		Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible is about imagined practices of witchcraft and finger pointing based on suspicions, vengeance, and an intolerance for individuality.
		This film version of the play sucks much of the depth of these underlying themes out of the story with but a single scene.
		Imagine for yourself what a different, more intriguing light would have been cast on the early scenes of this film, and see for yourself what a mistake this was.
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	"Why I Wrote the Crucible" for Class Use Only
		Likewise, films of Senator Joseph McCarthy are rather unsettling--if you remember the fear he once spread.
		As in the film, nearly fifty years later, the actors in the first production grabbed the language and ran with it as happily as if it were their customary speech.
		I am not sure what "The Crucible" is telling people now, but I know that its paranoid center is still pumping out the same darkly attractive warning that it did in the fifties.
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		The Crucible is a good adaptation of a good play, which still has the ability to cast its own spell Rhodes, Steve.
		After seeing the film version with the screenplay by Miller, Rhodes agrees with the assessment that The Crucible is Miller's most popular play, but far from his best.
		The Crucible is a film that grew on him, says Rhodes, but still left him unsatisfied.
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	Understanding "The Crucible" A Play by Arthur Miller
		Playbill News: Renowned Playwright Arthur Miller, Author of Death of a Salesman, Is Dead at 89 by Kenneth Jones, Robert Simonson, and Ernio Hernandez.
		Includes The Crucible Film Review by Liam Lacey, published in The Globe and Mail [Toronto], Friday, December 20, 1996.
		And at its center is a vastly moving story of guilt, love and redemption." The Crucible (1966).
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	Early Modern Resources » The Crucible
		It’s not inventions per se in a historical film that irritate me; fictionalisation can be used imaginatively and ‘authentically’.
		The trouble is that for me The Crucible’s inventions are as unsatisfying as they are inauthentic (and the two problems are probably inseparable).
		The film starts with a lie (the girls dancing in the woods) and ends with a lie (kicking away the stools before the condemned can finish their prayers on the gallows).
	www.earlymodernweb.org.uk /emr/index.php/early-modernity-on-film/hunting-the-witch/the-crucible (419 words)

	The Crucible
		The film is beautiful, and the acting, though one-dimensional, is as effective as it can be in the absence of fully-developed motivation for the girls' hysteria.
		Suffice it to say that when I first saw The Crucible in the theatre several years ago, I left the movie understanding a bit more about human nature and a greater appreciation for the power of group hysteria.
		This film draws on the fine acting talents of Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder (in her best role ever), and Joan Allen.
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	Tacoma Reads The Crucible
		Written by, directed by, and starring various talents fllisted during the McCarthy-era witch hunts of the 1950s entertainment industry, the film stars Woody Allen as Howard, a cashier and bookie approached by a fllisted television-writer to act as a "front," i.e., the alleged author of the writer's works.
		Considered by many to be one of the best science fiction films of the 1950''s, Don Siegel's film of Jack Finney's classic serial novel is the story of a small town doctor who learns that the population of his community is being replaced by alien duplicates.
		The film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those communism, or conversely as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthyism.
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	Film Scouts Reviews: Crucible, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was a vague thing, and you had to sign oaths of allegiance or a studio chief in Hollywood had to call Washington to make sure you were in the clear before giving you a job.
		A lot of people in the film industry were then (as now) leftists, and woe to anybody who ever attended a Communist Party cocktail party.
		Perhaps the widespread fear of liberals in recent years is what got Arthur Miller to go along with "The Crucible" being made into a major motion picture.
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	The Crucible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By the end of the film, the audience is able to be inside this man's thoughts and truly feel the pain that the judgment of the town has caused him and his family.
		In the film's final moments, Lewis opens up to the audience and shows the emotional struggle that is tearing apart his insides.
		The film has a sluggish beginning, perhaps taking too much time to set up the true struggle of the story, but the last hour more than makes up for the sluggish start.
	www.spu.edu /depts/falcon/archive/Jan15/feature/crucible.html (577 words)

	AngliaCampus : The Crucible (1996)
		Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was written in the 1950s at the time of the McCarthy witch-hunt of left-wing sympathisers, particularly in the entertainment and film industry.
		This 1996 film, the first English language film version, comes with an impeccable credential: the screenplay is written by Miller himself.
		Ever present in the film is the sense of the closed Puritan community, where dancing is forbidden and church attendance scrupulously recorded.
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	The Crucible
		The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written during the early 1950s at the time of Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on the infiltration of Communism in the United States and the loyalty to democracy of many prominent U.S. citizens.
		The Crucible is extremely appropriate for use in the high school or college classroom.
		The Crucible in 1953 explored this theme in the context of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
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	The Crucible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Comment: What is so haunting about 'The Crucible' is the fact that, while the sub-plot of a young woman trying to gain entry into a married mans heart may be fictitous, the initial story of the Salem Witch Hunts of 1692 is true, and that my friends is such a tragedy.
		The film follows Abigail Williams (Ryder) as her love and or lust for John (Day-Lewis) moves her to accuse his wife Elizabeth (Joan Allen in SUCH A COMMANDING ROLE!) of witchcraft in an effort to have her hung and John be all to herself.
		Despite the lack of proof surrounding the claims of witchcraft and the abounding proof substanciating the fact these were all fabricated lies the courts still put to death 19 innocent people.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - The Crucible -- Nicholas Hytner - VHS
		When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism.
		This was the second screen version of The Crucible, though it was the first one in English; the previous version, filmed in France in 1956, starred Simone Signoret and Yves Montand.
		The Crucible is centered around a love triangle existing between 3 of its main characters: Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and his wife, Elizabeth Proctor.
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	The Crucible
		The Crucible is a tragic stage play based on accounts of the Salem Witch trials of 1692.
		The climax of a play or another narrative work, such as a short story or a novel, can be defined as (1) the turning point at which the conflict begins to resolve itself for better or worse, or as (2) the final and most exciting event in a series of events.
		The climax of The Crucible occurs, according to the first definition, when the court finds John Proctor guilty after he admits that he had been intimate with Abigail Williams.
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	The Crucible
		At this point I suppose everyone's aware that The Crucible is the motion picture adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1953 stageplay of the same name.
		Set in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, The Crucible tells the story of how a town gets swept up in a witch hunt frenzy spawned by a group of young girls--a witch hunt which eventually leads to the accusation and trial of scores of townspeople, and the execution of nineteen.
		The Crucible has never been just a witch hunt story, for in telling itself it raises many weighty moral and ethical issues that have relevance in any time period (1692 or 1996).
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