Baz Luhhrmann Analysis
The Evolution of a Director’s style: Baz Luhrmann
Topic 1, by Chrysoula Soteriades
Baz Luhrmann who is well known for his flamboyant and extravagant cinematic techniques, his contract with story telling by making audiences feel apart of his movies and his philosophy of not using naturalism all come together to make him one of the most well known directors of all time, in my opinion he has not completely evolved from his Red Curtain Trilogy up until The Great Gatsby because he is still as exaggerated and flamboyant as the first movie he ever directed and it is seen that he hasn’t had a major evolution from his first ever movie until his latest.
Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic techniques are not things that we generally see in real life he exaggerates …show more content…
Baz Luhrmann wants to create a theatre experience, he wants the audience to feel drawn into the world he has created, the parties, the dancing competitions and all the love scenes, he makes his movies a spectacle of theatrical experience. He makes the characters over act, he makes them all depict their emotions more than a normal person would in their everyday life and he makes their expressions that much more noticeable in the way Romeo and Juliet first saw each other and immediately knew it was love at first sight, the way Shirley Hastings’ face looked like it was going to explode when she saw that Fran was Scott’s new dancing partner and in the way Daisy laughed at whatever Jay Gatsby said, all the acting was over done and exaggerated. Baz Luhrmann tries to remove the screen in order for the audience to enter into his world and that is why his movies are called “The Red Curtain Trilogy” an example of how he has executed this is the broken stage on Verona Beach in Romeo and
Topic 1, by Chrysoula Soteriades
Baz Luhrmann who is well known for his flamboyant and extravagant cinematic techniques, his contract with story telling by making audiences feel apart of his movies and his philosophy of not using naturalism all come together to make him one of the most well known directors of all time, in my opinion he has not completely evolved from his Red Curtain Trilogy up until The Great Gatsby because he is still as exaggerated and flamboyant as the first movie he ever directed and it is seen that he hasn’t had a major evolution from his first ever movie until his latest.
Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic techniques are not things that we generally see in real life he exaggerates …show more content…
Baz Luhrmann wants to create a theatre experience, he wants the audience to feel drawn into the world he has created, the parties, the dancing competitions and all the love scenes, he makes his movies a spectacle of theatrical experience. He makes the characters over act, he makes them all depict their emotions more than a normal person would in their everyday life and he makes their expressions that much more noticeable in the way Romeo and Juliet first saw each other and immediately knew it was love at first sight, the way Shirley Hastings’ face looked like it was going to explode when she saw that Fran was Scott’s new dancing partner and in the way Daisy laughed at whatever Jay Gatsby said, all the acting was over done and exaggerated. Baz Luhrmann tries to remove the screen in order for the audience to enter into his world and that is why his movies are called “The Red Curtain Trilogy” an example of how he has executed this is the broken stage on Verona Beach in Romeo and