Reimagining of The Tempest

I would reimagine The Tempest set in a world of a college aged  female Armenian. I would want to blend the characters of Prospero and Miranda in my reimagination of the play. This Armenian is a relative of reality televison stars the Kardashians. Her name being Kandice Kardashian. She is coming to American to live permanently for the first time in her life. Her struggle is her aspiration to be a reality televsion star like her family, yet she can't obtain that status. She tries to fit in in her own way but everyone just keeps shutting her out of the show. They say she's too foregin and not "Americized". She wants to fit in apperance wise to look like her American ladden family. Kandice goes to the library to look up what kind of plastic surgery she could get and the medical aspects of that when she stumbled some interesting old books. She discovers they're magic books and has all the tools she needs to reach her goals at her feet. She conjures herself up a large chest and a donk as well as some lengthy black hair. Even with her newly transformed self, she's denied priveleges on the TV show. Angred by this, she creates a huge storm to punish her family via a spell in her book. With this storm comes the apocolyspe and a slew of vampires and werewolves terrorize the town she lives in as well as her family. She meets a strapping young vampire athlete named Ken and finds true happiness and love with him. The Kardashian reality stars die in the apolcalypse and she and Ken live happily ever after and hunt zombies with a few other species that remained alive through the apocalypse.

Tempest film

I found the Tempest (film) to be a very loose adaptation of The Tempest (Shakespeare) but more similar to Shakespeare's version than Gloria Naylor's Mama Day was to Shakespeare. The film had the same general elements as The Tempest, yet it took until the very end of the film to get to them. The so called "rape" of Miranda by Caliban (in the film Calibanos) was at the very beginning, yet the character of Prospero (Phillip) didn't conjure up the storm or show use of any magical powers until the very very end of the film. Same with the courtship of Fredinand (Freddy) and Miranda, and the actual tempest! This made understanding the direction of the film very difficult... especially with the jumps in time and the bipolarness of Phillip. However, the film made up for this with how hilarious it was (intentional or not...). Calibanos was pure comic relief when he was singing with his goats as was Aretha and Miranda'a singing duet in the water stomping on the rugs. But to get back to the comparisons I think Mazursky's version was ineffective with the tellings of a modern day Tempest because the story was very confusing, yet his perspective on contemporary American lfe seemed on point. He drew in elements of the effects of media on youth, divorce, mid-life crises, and most of all how stiffling contemporary America can be. That is why Phillip wanted to get away and be completely exiled. I think ultimately Mazursky wanted to portray a happy ending with Phillip and his wife and daughter saying that you sometimes have to leave/lose things to be appreciative of what you have, but what happened to Aretha? It seemed Phillip left her high and dry which makes sense in this film because the film itself doesn't make sense!