Comparing West Side Story And Romeo And Juliet

Despite the contrasting differences of West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet, the modern director captures Shakespeare’s original themes and ideas in West Side Story. Because West Side Story is a movie musical, it will be a lot of narrative conveyed through the song. While in the Romeo and Juliet we will be more find the characters says to himself or herself using poetic words of Shakespeare. That is the general differences that clearly visible on both movies. But if we examine in more detail, the movie West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet have many similarities and differences consider their plot, their character and their setting. Initially, both movies West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet have similarities and differences consider their plot. The similarities can we find in the first scene that shows
The scenes when the main men characters meet their love have the same setting. The lovers almost meet in the main women character’s house and almost at the night. Romeo meets Juliet almost in Juliet’s room or Juliet’s balcony and always at the night. Also Tony and Maria, they meet in Maria’s room or Maria’s balcony at night. The time also similar when the main men character killed the main women character’s relative. Romeo killed Tybalt at the night, and Tony killed the Bernardo at the night too. Also when the main men character died, they died at night but in different place. Romeo died in the church with Juliet and Tony died in the playground near Doc’s store. The clear difference is the setting of place where they live. The movie West Side Story have setting place in Upper West Side Manhattan, New York city in 1957, then Romeo & Juliet takes in Verona, Italy in about 1594. We can see from the way they dress up. In short, the setting in both movies West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet have more differences than