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    Tom Buchanan can be known as one of those characters you either hate or you love. Whether you love his wealth and successes or loathe how violent he is capable of being through his words and his actions. His actions toward himself and others spark up a lot of conversation about how we feel about this character through his unique personality. In this situation‚ Tom Buchanan can reasonably be considered the ultimate villain because his overall personality portrays him as being arrogant‚ selfish‚ and

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    This is the first movie I have seen which was directed by Baz Luhrmann. For the most part‚ I think he did a rather good job‚ however the whole typewritten words over a bad CGI sky thing reminded me of a really cheesy gif someone would have on their tumblr page‚ just saying. As for the music‚ I believe he uses modern music and dance in a retro setting as a way to capture the way the audience at the time would have felt in that setting. In other words‚ if he used music that today’s audience associates

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    I chose The Great Gatsby to watch for my movie review because the movie gives you a look at how life was in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was released in 2013 and is rated PG13 for violence and sexual content. The movie was 143 minutes long. Baz Luhrmann directed The Great Gatsby and takes place in 1922. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jay Gatsby who bought a mansion across the lake from the love of his life (Daisy) who is now married. Casey Mulligan plays daisy who is in a hard place deciding whether

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    display of connectedness to family and place. The enigmatic painting “Las Meninas” by Diego Valesquez was painted in 1656 and many questions were raised about reality and illusion and the film “Strictly Ballroom” was filmed in 1992 and directed by Baz Lurhmman. Framing is what is deliberately included in the frame and what is excluded. The painting shows a “moment in time” during the everyday life of the royal family. The king and queen are only seen in the mirror; it is only when we realise this

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    Chapter 3: Analysis of Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli: Zeffirelli too‚ does his best to capture a vaster and younger audience. Russell Jackson‚ in his book The Cambridge Companion Of Shakespeare On Film cites critic Sarah Munson Deats who states that Zeffirelli‚ ‘particularly intended to attract the counter culture youth‚ a generation of young people‚ like Romeo and Juliet‚ estranged from their parents‚ torn by the conflict between their youthful cult of passion and the military traditions

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    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy[->0] written early in the career of William Shakespeare[->1] about two young star-crossed[->2] lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and‚ along with Hamlet[->3]‚ is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today‚ the title characters are regarded as archetypal[->4] young lovers. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances[->5] stretching back to antiquity.

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    In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet movie adaptation‚ the director shows the length chaos will go by incorporating a variety of effects during the prologue. For example‚ the director‚ Baz Luhrmann has chosen canted angles that are used continually throughout the prologue‚ creating unbalance and playing onto the theme of impulsivity and how it creates unbalance in one’s life. It evokes disorder and uneasiness in the scene‚ which is something that happens throughout the love story of Romeo and Juliet

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    represented as a forbidden romantic experience which ultimately ends in tragedy. Wayne Bennet represents a love of life in his autobiography‚ ‘Don’t Die With the Music in You’‚ through the exploration of his love for football and coaching. Finally‚ Baz Luhrman represents love in the film ‘Moulin Rouge’ as a romantic force that can conquer all things. This essay will argue that whilst these three texts represent diverse forms of love‚ the message that love is a powerful and inescapable force is ultimately

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    of blurred out‚ by all of the distracting side-stories. The sometimes very hasty cuts‚ and disturbing soundtrack can give problems with the audience because of its similarity with a music video. The special effects and scenery chosen by director Baz Luhrmann is not only distracting and confusing‚ but it also causes us to lose focus on the classic romantic love story by William Shakespeare. Another thing JB is not amused by is the performance of Leonardo DiCaprio‚ and he even says that some of the lines

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    his actual acting‚ but once they watch the films he has partaken in they notice his incredible acting ability. Some of the most famous productions he is known for being in are Romeo and Juliet (1996) and Titanic. The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann and produced by Warner Bros. in 2013‚ is one of the many famous movies leonardo Dicaprio acts in. Along with Dicaprio‚ Carrey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire are two of the main actors that play in this movie. Similar to the classic movie‚ Romeo and

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