Essay Comparing Zeffirelli And Luhrmann

In Zeffirelli’s and luhrmann’s individual movies on the Shakespearean play of Romeo and Juliet, they show a great deal of focus on the theme of conflict, which had occurred mainly between the two rivals of the play, the Montagues and the Capulets. Although the movies are based on the same play, they differ quite a lot. Zeffirelli’s version of Romeo and Juliet was set in the 1600s, which was accurate for the play. For luhrmann’s version, he set the movie in the modern era which inevitably causes a drastic difference between the two movies but they both focused their themes of conflict on the help of sound effects, costumes, and visual movements.
Undoubtedly, both Zeffirelli and luhrmann have majorly had the sound effects of their movies to support their conflict scenes. Zeffirelli had used the orchestra to create a dramatic tension for the viewers or the clanks of the swords as they clashed together moments before the death of Tybalt as he fought with Romeo, similarly the sound effects luhrmann had used were the rap music to give off the gangster vibe of danger or the gunshots between the Montagues and Capulets. Using this technique, the sound effects help the conflict scenes by creating immersivity between the scene and the audience. Thus the sound effects greatly support the
The three main factors which supported the conflict scenes were sound effects which helped the immersivity and gave off a great effect to the scenes. They also used costumes in their movies to help the viewers to differentiate between the Montagues and Capulets and finally both the directors used the actual visual scenes in their movie to build tension and once again immersitivity with the audience. Thus with all the factors, the movie has left the audience in awe as because the movie was a tragic story with violence and death, not just stereotypical