Romeo And Juliet Compare And Contrast

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite”(William Shakespeare) This is the memorable line from a classic story of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet has some adaptations that no knows which truly resembles Shakespeare play. So by picking two adaptations of Romeo and Juliet the people can get a feel what Shakespeare should be like. Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet is a lot more precise to Shakespeare’s playwright than Luhrmann’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by comparing and contrasting the movies to the playwright. First people need to know some background information about these movies of Romeo and Juliet. In the 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, it stars Leonardo
They continue their repartee until Abraham and another servingman of the Montagues arrive. Gregory advises, “Draw thy tool. Here comes of the house of Montagues” (1.1 29). Samson responds, “Quarrel, I will back thee” (1.1 30). Gregory suggests that frowning in their general direction will suffice initially. Samson disagrees, then They proceed to argue about whose master is better, and fight until Benvolio arrives and tells them to put up their swords. Tybalt shows up and further provokes the fight. In the movie, the “Montague boys” cruising along the freeway in a bright yellow convertible, laughing raucously, with one of them turning around to face the camera and yelling: “A dog of the house of Capulet moves me!” They pull up to a gas station, Benvolio goes inside, and immediately afterward arrive Tybalt and the “Capulet boys,” Abraham (here abbreviated to Abra) and another. Tybalt goes inside, but Abra remains next to the car, sees the Montague boys, and faces them with an intimidating glare. Then a fight starts but instead they use guns instead of swords and people are watching when it is supposed to be empty. The costumes are very modernized in the movie. In a quote by Tori Godfree, Luhrmann’s costumes are also highly modernized. This opening scene finds the Montague boys parading around in Hawaiian shirts and sporting unnaturally colored hair, while the Capulet boys favor leather and
Baz Luhrmann’s movie was modernized but had the same story and lines of Shakespeare. While Zeffirelli's did the same thing but with the settings and costumes. But the main difference to see which one is more accurate is how they portray Juliet in the movies. Shakespeare made the play to be more was more about Juliet than Romeo. Zeffirelli's interpretation strengthens such viewpoints by privileging Juliet's first experience of desire, rather than Romeo's. In the dance sequence, the alternating camera shots of the lovers are carefully balanced to connote reciprocal feelings and a sense of harmony in their first meeting. However, elsewhere in this scene, Zeffirelli's camera favors Juliet's responses. As Romeo begins the line, "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand" (1.5.94). This shows that Zeffirelli knew how Juliet was to be one to be focused and focused on her reaction for the meeting of Romeo and Juliet. Quote Mary Bly notes, Shakespeare's Juliet is "unsuited to the role of Petrarchan mistress", and yet, ironically, Luhrmann's visual treatment of Juliet's body repeatedly alludes to the Petrarchan aesthetic. (Lindsey Scott) This quote is saying that Luhrmann’s version of Juliet did not give us the what the people were looking for in Shakespeare heroin. Like many stage productions of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Luhrmann increases the tragedy of this scene by having Juliet wake just