The film version of Hedda Gabler does a great job recreating Ibsen’s text. Such a good job in fact, that the film was nearly exactly how I had imagined the story in my head. Between the two, there are a few differences that struck me. Immediately, I was surprised that the actors playing Mr. Tesman and Hedda seem significantly older than what is mentioned in the text. On page 783, we learn that George Tesman is thirty three years old, and on page 786 we learn that Hedda Gabler is twenty nine years old. If I had to guess, I would say that the actors are approximately ten years older than the characters that they are portraying. As far as the content of the film goes, there are a few insignificant text edits, like in the text when George Tesman asks Hedda to call his aunt Auntie, but in the film he only asks her to be more affectionate towards his aunt. Her response is the same in both. The only big difference that stands out to me is my perception of how Hedda treats George Tessman’s aunt, as well as how she seems to feel when George Tessman is telling his aunt how he believes that Hedda has “filled out nicely”. In the text, I get the impression that Hedda is incredibly rude to George Tesman’s aunt to the point where I feel resent towards Hedda because of the way she treats family. In the film version,  while Hedda is not the best host, I do not feel resent towards her because we can see her smile towards George Tesman’s aunt. She also does not order the aunt to close the curtains, George does it. The film version of Hedda is much more apologetic when she mistakes the hat to be the maid’s. In the film, I can sense Hedda’s insecurity when George Tesman and his aunt are admiring her. This is not present for me in the text.