Exploration of the themes in the play “Legal Weapon”

Considering Andys past. We worked in sm both groups to devise a utterly pitch to reveal unity of he triggers in Andys songative years which has lead to the character as we see in the antic. We utilize similar techniques used in the play. Our instruction was to devise a short mankind of looseness which would explain Andys present character. In order of battle to extend to a fortunate musical composition of sport we needed to plan our performance c arfully. We began by recall and trying to accumulate themes which we could develop or incorporate in our drama.I eventually came up with the chosen idea. I knew that the piece had to convey an passing influential event in Andys history and I proposeed a lifespan changing experience in his pincer lubber.The idea was really mere(a) but had a lot of hidden complications which needed to be considered. My vestige was hat Andy as a child had been given a gip car by his grandfather who inevitably dies but as a result of Cr ime. My suggestion involved Andy organism bullied as a child and having his act car stolen by the bullies, as a result of the maddening he vowed never to be slow.The torment the bullies gave him scared him for life and the to a greater extent than or less memorable remarks for Andy were Youre too slow or Youre non lush comely. When we ultimately began developing the piece it was important to emphasize these points in the drama because they explained a wide deal nigh the whole story. We used things deal repetition volume and levels to create a greater affect and to hoodwink the earreachs attention.The diagram below shows the transformation from the bully film to the live on scene where Andy crashes into the girl on the moped. It shows clearly how we merged the bully scene with and as a child with the final scene.We split the play into four scenes and they were as follows1. Andys granddad giving him the toy car.2. Andy discharge to school and being confronted by the bu llies.3. Andy in the playground being tormented and teased by the bullies whilst beg for his car lynchpin.4. Andy cheering whilst taking position on a hot rotter conveying the idea of a flashback.I had the role of Andy and I think the see to iting for this was because it was my idea and thitherfore I understood the story the best. The piece came together accordingly and we accomplished the designate well. Our transformation from scene 3 to 4 was a lot more successful than we expected and the audiences reception was encouraging.After this we wherefore watched a short video of young hoi polloi who enjoy joy-riding. We discussed what motivates people and began to observe the possible similarities with other crimes. The video we watched helped us a lot to understand the reasons which people view as as in that location motivation to joy ride. We began discussing the affect of the community and environment and that some judgment of convictions its full because thithers non hing else to do.I never felt happy with our discussion so I decided to do some search on my witness and see if I could find any relevant information which could sexual conquest for joy riders.Offender Profile MotivationThere are many another(prenominal) some(prenominal)(predicate) reasons for vehicle crime. Vehicles may be stolen* For casual use ordinarily temporary for joyriding or to get from a to b* For systematic m adepttary gain i.e. in an organised moodyice for export, resale or fracture into parts.* For policy fraud by owners.Studies such as that by Spencer (1992) show that* Fun, excitement, placement/showing reach and pecuniary gain are significant incite factors for young male car crime offenders* Involvement in a police chase is ofttimes seen as adding to the thrill and* Peer groups have a powerful influence.Motivational factors may change as miserable careers evolve. The desire for excitement may be replaced by a financial dependence on auto crime.The ve ry last thing we make was hot seating. Post prison Andy sat in the hot seat andAnswered a number of quick fire questions. I was Andy for a short period of time and I think the arrange was extremely helpful because it allowed thinking on the spot and begin to sculpt a more detailed version of Andy. It was interesting being asked and ask questions because it allowed Andy to explain him ego rather than us having to assume.A few examples of the questions I was asked are as followsIf you could change the past would u fluid have speeded?Do you compliments it was the man who robbed your grandfather that you killed instead of Andy?Do you blame the bullying in your child hood as the cause for your speeding problem?My answers to the questions differed form those of the other to Andys and it was interesting comparing the different versions of the character Andy which we had.Every wholeness took on a role a someone involved either directly or indirectly. Our relationship with Andy had to be conveyed through our posture and face educeion. I was a shopkeeper who disliked Andy because he was a thief. Although my relationship with Andy was indirect this exempt had to be conveyed to the audience. This had to be suggested in the way I move more or less the space and my reaction when I saw Andy.We so moved into a still image reflecting the neighbourhood and wider fraternity. We created a still image to appoint out relationship with Andy in comparison to each other. The main revolve close to of the tableaux was Andy and all of our attention had to be on him rather that the camera.Thought bring in was used to aid the audiences understanding of our characters. This gave each of us an opportunity to express more literally our feelings towards Andy. This was so repeated the discrimination being Andys modern release from prison. Also Kellys parent were now involved. It was interesting to see how our percept of Andy was affected by his imprisonment. I think peoples a ctions definitely contribute to there characteristics and personalities.We then had a discussion based on differences and grievances felt by individuals which was useful. We acknowledged the truth of how and ex convict is treated by society and decided that this was an inevitable reaction of imprisonment. We all felt that rehabilitation is not present in prison and that prison seems to have only one purpose keeping twists away from the public. The idea of once youre a criminal you remain a criminal was mentioned several times.In a wrinkle with Andy at one end, characters had to reveal their trust in post-prison Andy by there proximity to him.We then improvised in pairs a discussion in the midst of Andy and hi Parole Officer. The teacher would stop and nonplus different groups exploitation the technique of cross cutting to highlight issues concerning the central character. The reason this exercise was healthy was because we were improvising. The improvisation meant tat we had t o think on the spot well-nigh our arguments and comments. We got to put our entire preparation work o practise by exercising our opinions and ideas through the improvisation.DevelopmentUse the style and technique of licit Weapon to devise a presentation high lighten one of the themes cover in the workshop.After exploring Legal weapon to such a great depth we were ready to begin constructing our own presentation which some how unified some of the ideas present in Legal weapon.We started to think most the different possibilities of drama which we could explore. We sat down for a good 15 proceedings trying to conjure up any appropriate ideas but we were not succeeding. We knew that our drama had to have some of resemblance or relationship to effectual weapon and it was this restriction or criteria which made it harder.Eventually we came up with several ideas and this now became confusing and made it harder to make a decision about which one we would use. Then one of us suggested a really good idea of a loop in our play. This triggered all of our imaginations and we began to pour with suggestions. We finally came to an agreement about which ideas we would use.The idea of a conceive of becoming ingenuousness excited all of us and we began to develop an actual plot around it. We decided the main character would have a intake about and event which would in reality happen in the future, a premonition, but he wouldnt be aware of its truth until it actually started to tae place.We knew that if it was to work it would have to be well organised and well thought through so we began breaking it apart and concentrating on smaller sections rather than the whole piece.The piece was to start in the woolgather and then only show glimpses of the fancy. Our intention to achieve the affect of glimpses was to use lighting and keep changing places every so often to suggest effort and differences in time movement and differences in time. The reason we wanted this affect wa s because we wanted to keep the audience in suspense so that when the dream actually come to life they are not aware of its reality straight away. Another reason was because commonly in dreams people never actually remember the whole dream the only usually remember bit and pieces.The idea was that Ross would have a dream about robbing entering a shop with two fiends and then sees the shop keeper with a gun pointed towards his friend. The next glimpse of the ream would be his friend dead on the floor suggesting to the audience that he was wino by the shop keeper. We never wanted to show the actual sheller happen and the reason for this is evident in the last scene.Towards the end of the dream when Laurie (the friend who got shot) is lying on the floor with Ross on top of him shouting inflame up we had the lights go off for the final time for the sequence of the dream. However Ross still continued shouting screening up wake up and the shop keeper who now became Rosss father beg an shouting it as well.The lights came back on and scoopful (Rosss dad) was on top of Ross shaking him and shouting wake up wake up. By this point me and Laurie and moved positions and were sitting on two seats which were supposedly in one of our endures. We then began a long sequence of cross cutting amongst us and Ross and Max. Me and Laurie we talking about how we needed money soon and then eventually came to the conclusion we would rob this shop on Sunnydale which had no CCTV footage. Ross was asking his father (Max) for money whilst eating breakfast. Me and Laurie decided we needed one more person who needed money as much as we did and then I said What about Ross and as I finished aspect it max said Ross I dont have any money for u. The overlapping of Ross in the two scenes created a good affect. Ross stormed out of his hearth and said he going to the shop then me and Laurie left the house also going to the shop.We met Ross in the shop and then the lights went off and we f roze to suggest the idea of us explaining to him what we were intending to do. The loop now began and Ross noticed some similarities with his dream and we conveyed his awareness y a brief soliloquy where Ross said appear a minute and then continued. This time there were no lights going off because it wasnt a dream it was reality and but the only difference was at Ross was aware of where the shop keeper kept his gun.This changed everything and created suspense for the audience. They were unwitting of what would actually happen. Seeing as Ross knew where the gun was kept and had realised that his dream was actually happening he thought he could avoid Laurie being shot so he grabbed it and pointed it at the shop keeper. We thought that it would be too simple for Ross to ill the shop keeper so we end the performance with a twist and had the shot keeper grab Laurie and Ross shoot Laurie. The presentation ended with Ross in despair and me shaking Laurie and shouting wake up wake up.Our inspiration for the loop came form the play Legal Weapon and another performance we were taken to see last year. I think we succeeded in portraying our idea accurately and I was really pleased with our final performance. However had we been given more time I think we could have made it a lot fail by possibly involving more characters and using music and better lighting but it was still excellent taking into account our time limit. valuationWe spent a lot of time on this section of drama and the text for Legal weapon influenced a lot of the drama that followed. We started off by exploring the text and gaining strong understanding of what exactly was happening and then began to explore it physically by actually devising a piece of drama which evolved around it.The play legal weapon was written in a very unique way which was often confusing a times. We often could interpret the text in more than one way and this sometimes led to shirt debates about the endless possibilities of what th e author actually wanted to portray.We were given the task of creating a piece of drama which explained the reason for Andy speed and subsequently killing a girl. This task was aided with the research and preparation we had done which included a sort video on Joy riding. This gave us a lot of ideas but our chosen idea was completely different. We decided that out drama was going to show that Andys acknowledgment or reason for speeding was subsequently due to his child hood experiences.Our drama showed how as a child Andy was given a toy from his granddad that died soon after. He took this car too school with him and one day he was face with a group of bullies who stole it off him and began to tease and torment him. The bullies yelled and shouted at him that he wasnt fast enough and he never would be and Andy kept shouting back saying I am fast enough I am fast enough This scene involved a lot of movement and eventually flowed swiftly to the last scene as I antecedently explained in the response with Andy pushing the accelerator in his car and still shouting I am fast enough suggesting the idea that it was all a memory.I think that this was a very well plotted response to the play and we achieved exactly what we wanted to. This however was only the penult stage to another performance. Our next drama was completely open to all possibilities the only criteria we were given was that it had to evolve around the theme of crime. I explained in detail in the development section what drama we done and how we responded to this task but I never explained our views and the audiences. After the performance we spoke to the audience (our fellow classmates) and discussed the good and bad elements of our performance. This was extremely helpful because it helped us understand how well we communicated our ideas.Our drama was extremely detailed and very well organised. We often tried to consider all the minor details in order to certify a professional performance.Little things like timing and localisation were rehearsed repeatedly until perfect. One part in particular was when I and Max had an overlap in our lines. This was intentional and it created a great effect when perfected.I feel that in both our performances we performed strongly and equally expressed our characters appropriately. I also feel that from the audiences response and reaction we succeeded both times in generating entertaining and interesting pieces of drama.