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Name Tutor Course Date Response to Hairspray film and musical versions The latest version of Hairspray movie is ideally a comic story. If you have ever watched the two versions, you would realize some few differences, but the original themes regarding ideology, characters, and plot still take the same stand. Noticeably, in both versions portray and maintain the idea of gender and race, but the new version has more exaggerated stylistic devices in its presentation. On the contrary, some fans of the old movie would not give an applaud to the new version, but my opinion is that the new musical version is catchy and exciting because of the musical stage performance. Of course, the adoption of a new version would attract some changes. However, the changes do not alter the original meaning of the film. Hairspray has been reproduced in different version and therefore, some differences emerge in the event of developing an updated version of the movie. Some of the differences noted, and discussed as follows: One of the significant differences observed is that in the musical version Tracy is not arrested to jail. Contrary to this, in the previous film versions, Tracy was detained with others, the original movie and the 2007 film Tracy were detained with protesters. Similarly, the teens participating in Corny Collin`s Council were doubled from ten to twenty. Also, the editors removed the phrase of Motormouth Maybelle scene of rhythmic jive talks. Besides, the Corny Collins show plays an important role in the play. The opening tag, "He`s Corny" automatically reveals the name of the show`s host and also characterizes its content. Therefore, in the campy show, the theme of
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