A Thousand Acres vs. King Lear Essay

After watching both films, A kB Acres made in 2007 star Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Jason Robards and King Lear made in 2008 starring Ian McKellen, Frances Barber and Kieran Bew, I decidedly liked A meter Acres much better. Mostly for its acting, and the contemporaneousness of the story line. (Although, a King Lear re-make is in production currently and will star Al Pacino as King Lear, so my opinion is subject to change.) on that point are manhoody similarities between the devil movies. Both movies have a father with three girls, whom are trying to leave something to them. Larry Cook is deciding how to break open his land amongst his daughters, where as King Lear is deciding how to split his kingdom amongst his three daughters. Larry, is Lear. Ginny is Goneral, Rose is Regan and the favourite and youngest daughters, Caroline is Cordelia. Harold Clark, a family friend of Larry, is the portrayal of the Earl of Gloucester, King Lears friend. His two sons are Edgar and Ed mund, and Harolds two sons are Loren and Jess.Though there is a lacking of the comical aspect in A Thousand Acres, that is put in King Lear, the story lines are still very similar. The viewpoint is similar coming from the eldest daughter Ginny(A Thousand Acres) and the eldest daughter Goneril(King Lear.) King Lear divides his kingdom amongst his daughters based on who loves him the most, Larry gives the largest portion of his land to the most loving daughter as well. In each family and storyline, the youngest daughter rebels against their father and ends up leaving, getting nothing from their father. After each father gives up their power/land, they both go mental without it, and both end up in frightful situations that end up with their youngest (and previously most favoured) daughter coming to the rescue.Though there are many similarities, the movies differ in many, many ways. For example Ginny brings up the position her father molested her aswell as her sister Rose, where as G oneril feels nothing but love and admiration for her father. The love is portrayed more innocent and wholesome. Ginny shows howyou could hate her father, for the fact he molested her as a child. King Lear is told from a male perspective, Shakespeare didnt have a female mentality especially not back in that age, not portrayed atleast in this movie. A Thousand Acres is written by a female, and this is why there is a different, more twisted perspective. A female view as well as a males, as she wrote it later on mirroring this novel, she got to put her own two cents in.King Lear is a changed man at the end of the movie. He goes from being a horrible tyrant, to a changed man. Larry? Not so much. He remains a dispicable man, solely caring almost his possessions, power and money, whos attitudes and beliefs never change. Because of the fact that the movies are in two different perspectives, they have different alkalis. Though both hold a theme about the abuse of power, and a theme of abus ive family relationships, as well as father daughter relationships they differ in what the main themes are. A Thousand Acres is about living life to its fullest and for yourself, where as, the main theme of King Lear is family and power.Another difference is the fact the town thought that the daughters of Larry were cruel to him, where in fact they werent. He was respected by his town. King Lear was also a very respected ruler of his lands. However, nobody suspects King Lears daughters of being cruel to him.