One of the major changes between the movie and play is the very beginning. In the movie, the first scene is the girls sneaking out to the woods and dancing. The play describes the first scene in Parris's house when Betty is asleep and will not wake. I beleive that the director changed this to better explain what the girls were doing in the woods. Showing the scene also gave the audience a good impression of Abigail to be cold-hearted and would be willing to do anything to get her way right from the beginning.
Among all the similarities between the movie and the play, the main one that stuck out in my mind was when the girls pretended to see the yellow bird that was Mary Warren's spirit. It was exactly how it was described in the play. The girls all cringed in fear and started repeating everything Mary said. At the end of this scene in both the movie and the play, John Proctor is put in jail. Although the movie is very close to being the same as the play, this is the main similatiry that stuck out to me.
Although I didn't get to see all of the movie, I thought it did a great job of depicting the play. Throughout the movie, the dialog stayed very close to the same as the play. The setting was different in some of the scenes. For example, when John Proctor confesses to having my a deal with the devil, he was in the courthouse in the play but in the movie, he was outside. I enjoyed the movie more than the play because I found it easier to understand.
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