Compare And Contrast Romeo And Juliet

I believe that the first one we watched, the Franco Zeffirelli version, was a better retelling of the play. Even though things like the death of Paris and the death of Lady Montague were taken out of it, they were also taken out of the more modern one, so that has nothing to do with the decision about which is better. The first one did a much better job of immersing you in the story and making you feel like you were in the exact time period that it would have taken place in. The older version also did a better job staying true to what Shakespeare originally was presenting in the play. The second takes much more liberty in what the characters do and how they do it. The more modern version changed many of the things from the original play. Romeo, at one point, took a mind altering substance that
The families, as told in the book, were wealthy, but in the Baz Luhrmann version, it seemed as though they were somewhat rich, but they still lived in a poor and run down area. In the first one, it stays much more true to the time period, the clothing, the way that things were done. The setting and outfits made you feel like you were at the first time that Romeo and Juliet was being performed. The only way to make a movie enjoyable, realistic, and interesting is to make the watcher feel as if they are a bystander in the scenes. Even though the more contemporary movie was more relatable, the first was so much more similar to the actual Romeo and Juliet. Since we read the book beforehand, we knew how everything was supposed to be done and what the story was supposed to be like. But out of all of the differences, I believe that the setting was what really makes me believe that the first one was a better representation. It was very similar to what it looked like in the actual day of