For our assignment to watch a movie of a Shakespeare play, I watched She’s the Man, which is a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.  Although set in present day America instead of Italy and around the Medditeranean as the original one was, this movie did an excellent job of sticking to the original plot while making it enjoyable for modern audiences.  One thing that made this an obvious adaptation is that the four main characters from the play kept their same name in the movie.  Also, while names like Malvolio could not be used for modern day, the writers kept the names similar, such as changing Malvolio to Malcom.  The setting is at a school named Illyria, which is also, not so coincidentally, the name of the island on which the original play takes place.  The plot is also very similar to the original one.  Viola, in the movie, must pretend to be her brother in order to go to his school and try out for the boy’s soccer team, because the girls’ team at her school got cut.  While at the school, she falls in love with her roommate Duke Orsino.  However, Duke likes Olivia who does not want him.  Then, Olivia falls for Viola (in disguise), making things really complicated.  Viola’s brother Sebastian then comes home and things get even more complicated.  In the play, Viola and Sebastian’s ship gets into a wreck and both of them think that the other drowned.  Viola then takes on the appearance of her brother so that she can be hired on the island.  She is hired by the Duke, Orsino.  Orsino is love sick for Lady Olivia, who controls the other side of the island.  Lady Olivia falls in love with the disguised Viola and tries to get his (her) hand in marriage.  Then, when the real Sebastian comes looking for Viola, he accidentally marries Olivia.  The two plots are very complicated, yet very similar at the same time.  I really enjoyed She’s the Man and thought it was a very good adaptation of Twelfth Night.