6 Elements

Title:
Entangled, because it means to be deeply involved especially in a something complicated. It also means to be twisted together in a tangled mass. This to me describes the narrator in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Entangled describes what she sees in the wall paper which is also how she feels in her marriage. It will catch audiences attention because the word alone is mysterious and makes viewers wander why, who, or what is entangled? It has a mysterious tone to it, which will also be in the movie.

Character:
The narrator (from the short story) will be named Rose and will be played by Charlize Theron. She is a well rounded actress that can play just about any part handed to her. She has been in some romantic movies that deal with love and relationships, but has also been in movies that show she can play the tough woman role. For example, she played in Sweet November and Monster which are two totally opposite roles. Her character Rose is going to be a well-likeable person who has many friends, but deep down she is going crazy. She is in a sense faking her attitude and personality in front of her friends and acquaintances.

John is going to be played by Ben Affleck. He is also a well rounded actor who has also dealt with love and relationships. He has been in Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil, and in each he is in a particular role where he has either a girlfriend or a wife. His character John is a physician and extremely intelligent, but doesn't have a clue what he is doing to his wife. He is driving her to insanity by the pressure he puts on her to be a good wife and mother, constantly directing her. He is also a workaholic and is rarely home to spend time with the family, but when he is home, spending time with her is minimal. I think Ben Affleck is a plays strong males roles in relationships, and I believe he is the perfect actor to pick because he can be both loving and assertive, and the roles he has played before prove it, especially a recent one "He's Just Not That Into You."

Friends: Rose has two main friends of whom are played by Jennifer Aniston, and Katherine Heigl. All other friends are minor characters with little to no lines. Jennifer Aniston was chosen because of her role in the sitcom Friends. Obviously she is good at playing the friend role and would work perfect in the situation, even though it will be less humorous than Friends. Katherine Heigl stars on Grey's Anatomy and also plays a friend role to the other interns. In both TV shows, their characters are both very good at hiding how they feel, which is one thing that is neccessary in this movie.

Setting:
I will keep the setting from the short story, simply because the feelings that Rose feels about her marriage is more realistic in the 19th century than it is today. The setting is going to be in Connecticut.

Plot/Conflict:
Techniques- There will be a background of Rose's character just to give the audience a perspective that she is a normal, sane woman. The background will start a couple of years before she marries John, and then the plot will slowly walk through the years they are married to show the slow decay of Rose. Throughout the story she will be flashback to when she was younger and how free she was to do anything she liked, and she will continually compare that to where she is now. There will also be a brief background on John in order to develop his character.
Conflict- There will obviously be man vs man- Rose against her husband, but also man vs society which is Rose vs society and its norms. The movie will go more into depth on how Rose feels towards the role of a woman in a marriage and how all her friends around her seem to be normal and loving their "wife" position. She can't understand them and feels sorry for them for being happy under the circumstances that woman are in when they marry. In the movie, she will not be locked down in one room, but will seem to act as a normal woman, but the audience will see her on the inside and how she deeply feels.

Irony:
The main irony is that she appears to be normal to everyone around her, but deep inside she is going insane from being trapped in her marriage role. There is also dramatic iron incorporated in because she views her friends as happy in their marriage and loving their roles as wifes, but the truth is they feel the same as her, she just doesn't know it. So on the side, the audience will be able to see quick scenes, or conversations between each other, that let the audience in on this irony. Rose figures it out at the end, and whenever she figures out how to escape, she goes and helps her friends, in which some confess while others remain silent.

Symbolism:
Instead of having a yellow wallpaper in the movie, I replaced the symbolism of the wallpaper with her friends. Just as she is watching the wallpaper and trying to figure it out, in the movie she is trying to figure out how her friends can be happy in their marriages and she can't (not knowing that they aren't happy, just as she is not happy but putting up a front). Her friends symbolize the idea of marriage to a young girl and how happy it seems looking on from the outside, but once in, it is like nothing but being in a cage. There will be several symbols pointing to her caged in spirit, and it will be a lot easier to see in a movie than in the short story. For example, the expressions on her face and her actions toward her husband when he is directing her around, and through the conversations she has to herself. Also, her appearance will continually get worse and the audience will almost begin to see the life drain out of her with the way she looks.