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This term the year levels have been introduced to Romeo and Juliet as soon as we were told about the story and how quick everything happened we thought the movie was going to be terrible. We watched two different Romeo and Juliet movies.Baz Luhrmann’s movie was more about violence then love but it had a more modern theme and was more in your face then Franco Zeffirelli.Franco Zeffirelli movie got boring as it wasn’t as loud and as in your face then Baz Luhrmann’s I thought that it Franco Ziffirelli was going to be better. But There scenes were both different. I actually thought the modern Romeo and Juliet was bad but when I saw the older version I took back what I said.
In Baz Lurhmann his intro is very good and loud which catches the audience attention. And the narrates voice makes it more dramatic even the music that plays after the news reporter finishes speaking. And when we see it zoom out
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When it goes to the first scene it’s slow and not like baz luhrmanns. I liked baz Luhrmanns because it’s fast and isn’t as slow and because it has a modern theme so when the pulled out there guns/swords it became interesting because I thought someone was going to die. But because Franco Zeffirelis movie was older it was understandable why his one wasn’t as good as Baz Lurhmanns. The opening of the scene was suited the whole theme because it was old and I liked how it was in an opened market area how I would be in the olden days. I think that if Franco Zefferelli should have tried to make the movie a bit more modern. I think that Franco Zefferlli stuck by the book instead of trying to make his own twist.Franco Zefferlli is trying not having as much violence as the Baz Lurhmanns

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