compare and contrast of the 2 films Romeo and Juliet
Compare and Contrast Act 1 – Scene 1 in the films “Romeo and Juliet”
“Romeo and Juliet”, a tragedy of a star-crossed lovers, had written by Shakespeare hundreds years ago. It was the best tragedy in Shakespeare’s time, and even in now days, the story of Romeo and Juliet are still known as one of the best tragedy. And 2 directors produced two different films with a same title of Romeo and Juliet. It was 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli, and 1996 by Baz Luhrmann. Although it had the same title, the two directors had interpreted the story in a quite different way, and it remains as the ‘classic’ and ‘modern’ Romeo and Juliet in people’s memories. From a scene of in two films, we could look at how two films are different.
Firstly, the settings of two films are quite different. In the classic (1968) film, the director set the Verona in Italy. And the time goes back to hundreds years ago, to the Shakespeare’s time. The Verona in Italy is where Shakespeare had laid the scene, and the director just caught that point. The director put the play of Romeo and Juliet, which had acted in Shakespeare’s time just into the screen. And the audience could know how was that era, and how had the Romeo and Juliet acted out in that time exactly through this film. In this film, the fight between two houses occurs in the marketplace. Marketplace was the most common place in Shakespeare’s time, and many people had gathered in the marketplace every day. And if there is a fight in the marketplace, the people who are not the Montague or the Capulet could also get hurt, and the director and Shakespeare just used this point to explain how big fight and grudge was there between Montague and Capulet and how big was their forces.
In the contrary, in the modern (1996) film, the director set the Verona in USA, and the time remains in the present. If the classic film had followed the Shakespeare’s story and setting faithfully, the modern film had only followed half of it. The outer structure of this
“Romeo and Juliet”, a tragedy of a star-crossed lovers, had written by Shakespeare hundreds years ago. It was the best tragedy in Shakespeare’s time, and even in now days, the story of Romeo and Juliet are still known as one of the best tragedy. And 2 directors produced two different films with a same title of Romeo and Juliet. It was 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli, and 1996 by Baz Luhrmann. Although it had the same title, the two directors had interpreted the story in a quite different way, and it remains as the ‘classic’ and ‘modern’ Romeo and Juliet in people’s memories. From a scene of in two films, we could look at how two films are different.
Firstly, the settings of two films are quite different. In the classic (1968) film, the director set the Verona in Italy. And the time goes back to hundreds years ago, to the Shakespeare’s time. The Verona in Italy is where Shakespeare had laid the scene, and the director just caught that point. The director put the play of Romeo and Juliet, which had acted in Shakespeare’s time just into the screen. And the audience could know how was that era, and how had the Romeo and Juliet acted out in that time exactly through this film. In this film, the fight between two houses occurs in the marketplace. Marketplace was the most common place in Shakespeare’s time, and many people had gathered in the marketplace every day. And if there is a fight in the marketplace, the people who are not the Montague or the Capulet could also get hurt, and the director and Shakespeare just used this point to explain how big fight and grudge was there between Montague and Capulet and how big was their forces.
In the contrary, in the modern (1996) film, the director set the Verona in USA, and the time remains in the present. If the classic film had followed the Shakespeare’s story and setting faithfully, the modern film had only followed half of it. The outer structure of this