The film version of Hedda Gabler filmed in 1963 followed closely to the original text by Henrik Ibsen in 1890. By closely following to the original text, as viewers, we can receive a better sense of how the scenery may look like in life. Although there are some subtle change made by the director of the film,  Alex Segal. In the text, the drawing-room is described sounded very spacious, but in the film, the setting was very compacted together, and it did not give the feel of a large drawing-room as written in the text. Also with the settings, there was no sight of the piano where Mrs. Hedda Tesman made complaints about, and later even removed out of the drawing-room as it is in the text.

Other than the setting, the characters in the film acted closely to the text, and if not, it gave the audience a better sense of the relationships between characters that the text cannot give. Especially the relationship between Tesman and Miss Tesman. Miss Tesman’s worries over Tesman on his six months honeymoon, and his payment for the house that him and his wife are to live in, with some of these actions of her’s, it really displays the deep bond between an aunt and nephew. Although the chronology part followed closely along with the text, there are some parts that were left out. The noticeable one was the conversation between Tesman and Miss Tesman where Tesman asked Miss Tesman “Have you heard anything about Eilert – since I went away, I mean?” (786). It is interesting that director Segal has chosen to remove that part of the conversation out because Eilert Løvborg is in some way significant character in the play as he and Hedda Tesman has had a relationship in the past. The movie really helped the viewers to see how frustrated Hedda was with her new family, and although its written in the play, I believe it creates a better image in our heads of how she may feel at that very moment with the visuals.