Title: The title will be changed to "The Rose Garden." This change is important to the plot because the rose garden and the roses within it have special symbolic and ironic meaning. It is also important because much of the story is told from the rose garden surrounding the backside of Emily's house.
Characters:
- Miss Emily Grierson; played by Christina Ricci: In the film (unlike the story), Miss Emily is an attractive, young, mysterious, and very isolated woman. Her slender figure, dark hair, and dark eyes make her physically appropriate for the part of Miss Emily, but she is also very skillful in the potrayal of dark and misunderstood characters; such as in “The Addams Family."
- The Rose Gardener; played my Morgan Freeman: In my film, the rose gardner is a wise, old man who has servered Emily’s family for years and has watched and oversaw Emily from childhood to adulthood. In many movies, such as "Batman Begins," he seems to play the “all seeing,” brainic whose intellect proves to be worthwile to the characters around him.
- Homer Barron; played by Denzel Washington: In my movie, Homer Barron is an attractive, strong-willed road worker who, at his own risk, becomes romantically involved with Emily. A relationship such a Emily’s and Homer’s, that was mixed raced and social class, was not only a high risk to ridicule, but also hate crimes. Homer, despite the odds for Emily and him, entered into a such a relationship. Denzel's dashing looks make him physically appropriate for the part, but also his roles headstrong characters, such as in "Remember the Titans."
- The servant who first discovered the room; played by Joseph Marcell:
In my film, this is a short part, but like the gardner, provides us with information on what goes on inside the house. Joseph is perfect for this role in my story because, similar to Geoffery in "The Fresh Price of Bel Air," his curiousness reveals charactristics from the people around him.
Setting: Like in the short story, much of the setting will be in Emily's house. I chose to keep the setting in the house to add mystery and skepticism to the story. Much of the stoy will also be set in the rose garden; where our narrorator (gardner) works. The story will include his personal encounters from inside the house and in the rose garden.
Plot/Conflict: In this film, a wealthy, light-skinned southern belle (Emily) who’s childhood witnesses of murder and adultery play a significant and dark role in her adult life. As a child, Emily's mother cheats on her father with one of their servents. Out of fear that her husband would leave her, and because her affair is now unveiled (which the audience does not know) she kills him. This story is told from the rose gardner, who has been with the family for years and has witnessed Emily's broken childhood. This mystery is set in a world torn by the isolations of social status and rasism (early 1900's). She falls in love with an attractive dark skinned worker named Homer Barron. After months of townspeople seeing them together, he vanishes suddenly. Towards the end of the movie, the viewer does not know why she has killed Homer, but they are taken to a bridal room containing Homer's body, that is filled with roses. Laying next to Homer, she (wearing a wedding dress with a bouquet or red roses laying on her chest) lights the room on fire and kills herself.
Symbolism/irony:
- Roses (from the rose garden): her life (ironic because her life is not beautiful like a rose); herself as very attractive; the delicate state (like a flower) of her life; how, like a rose, her life "wilts" over time.
- Color of roses: Red-murders and dirty blood
- Rose petals: Innocence, over time a rose looses its petals-Emily looses her innocence
- Color of brial dress: Yellow-decay of her life
- House: Isolation
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