Sherrie McIntyre ENG 321 3/31/00 The Omitted When watching the Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing, I tended to realize lines had been omitted from the movie. I then got further into the movie and some of the lines that were ones that foreshadow what had happened in the text. The purpose of this paper will show that lines left out of the movie were in some way essential to character development and aided in the …showed first 75 words of 1239 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1239 total…representation of the text, and that with half the text missing, how could it be? This play was wonderful the way it was written, and Branagh has done wonderful work with other Shakespeare plays. I expected more out of this, I guess. Also I would have to say that the interesting choice Branagh made in omitting so many lines, important lines, aides in what I feel to be a half done job of script writing.