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After reading act I of twelfth night, I can't stop thinking about the movie "She's the Man." The first time i saw the movie, I loved it. I didnt find out that it was based off of twelfth night until after I had seen it. The movie is a much more modern than the original play, it is based around the love of soccer, and after the girls team gets cut Viola transforms into her twin brother and goes to his private school, making everyone believe it is actually Sebastian. The movie was hilarious, and after reading a short summary of the original play, it made watching the movie again that much funnier. It was interesting to see what they changed in the play to make it more modern, like a fair, a cotillion, and how it all comes together over a game of soccer.

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The comic curve:
Act I: normal. Act III: not so normal, Act V: new normal(higher than original normal) (est. reunions), 3 marriages.

Illyria = delirium
Malvolio = mal - "bad, ill." volio - "will"

Orsino is in love with being in love, doesnt actually know olivia
act I, scene I
Viola, Violet, 'borrows' another scent, borrowing persona of cesario,
Olivia getting attention from uncles (blech) friend, andrew agucheek. Malvolio is also in love with her.
Olivia likes Viola/Cesario
ACT I scene IV 32

for wednesday: read act II, comment on 6 questions.

twelfth night; ACT I

1. How exactly did Duke Orsino & Olivia meet? have they known each other for a long time?

2. What is meant when they say "dry"? (scene III, V)

3. What exactly does Viola look like when she is a boy? how can they really not see it?

4. Why does the clown think Olivia's brother is in hell?

5. What made Olivia choose 7 years?

6. Doesn't it kill Viola to tell Olivia all the things that Orsino thinks of her, when she wants to be in that position?