This play is something you can orientate your life to.
For me, this was ideal because I could see the REAL, lively ⁍eath of a Salesman`, played by an ideal cast: Dustin Hoffman: a little over-acting, but enthusisiastic Kate Reid: so authentic that she could be taken for my mother John Malkovich: silent, thoughtful, self-confident`, great! How shall I put it? This film sort of opened my eyes towards this great, merciless work of Arthur Miller.
So some of you might claim that this version was too stage-drama-like, not cinematic. Fortunately, Schlöndorff didn't make any effort to put his own special style into the movie, he just left the play the way it was and the way, I suppose, Arthur Miller wanted it. A few days ago, I spotted Volker Schlöndorff's film version on television, a German dubbed version, but that doesn't matter because I already knew the lines and Schlöndorff hardly changed them. It was terrible! She didn't show us any theater or film version, so we began to utterly dislike the text as a whole: a sentimental play where you already know the ending when you read the title. Our teacher was a very industrious woman and let us analyze every character's every word several times, until we couldn't hear the words Willy`, Linda`, ⁋iff`, ⁊merican Dream` and stockings` any more. I had to read Arthur Miller's ⁍eath of a Salesman` for my English class this year.
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