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    a new style. Likewise‚ the movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet that Luhrmann created can be compared to Zeffirelli’s in the same manner: both movies show Shakespeare’s original themes of love‚ fate and tragedy. However‚ Luhrmann’s movie takes a twist on the original story‚ using drama‚ music‚ and a modern theme to ultimately portray shakespeare’s intentions to teens in a similar‚ yet compelling‚ manner. Zeffirelli and Luhrmann movie adaptations are both based on Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli’s version

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    Tanya Luhrmann‚ a senior researcher at Cambridge‚ addresses the neglected population of magician and witchcraft practitioners of contemporary London in her book‚ Persuasions of Witch’s Craft. Even thought there were couple of discrepancies in her book‚ Luhrmann provides valuable anthropological insight to different practices of witchcraft‚ explains why females are interested in magic‚ and analyzes what drives a well-educated and adjusted individual in London to join these practices? Luhrmann’s

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    T.M. Luhrmann wrote “Of Two Minds: The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry” as an anthropological study focusing on the psychiatric world of the United States. In it‚ she argues that the psychiatric field has split into “two minds” – biological and psychodynamic. Luhrmann compares two models of mental disorders‚ describing diagnosis and psychopharmacology psychiatry against a psychodynamic psychotherapy specialization. Matthew Ratcliffe’s article “Understanding Existential Changes in Psychiatric

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    Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet 1996 and william shakespeare how each text reflects its cultural and historical context I am the master of my fate. I am the captain in my soul. « When we look at Shakespeare’s work‚ we discover a playwright who never loses sight of uncertainties‚ ambiguities‚ and imbalances of life » (Barthelemy 2004: 141) Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was written in the late 1500’s. Critics tended to disparage this play in comparison to the four great tragedies Shakespeare

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    What are the advantages and disadvantages of telling stories using moving images? The overall objective and purpose of telling a story is to engage with the audience to convey the meaning of a plot and create a human connection on an emotional level (Batty p292). Stories can be told in a variety of ways‚ and the method by which a story/narrative is told determines the way in which we connect and interact with it emotionally. Each mode of story telling is capable of presenting the same story in different

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    influential writers of all time. Throughout the world‚ there are people looking at the same art‚ but interpreting it in many different ways. This happens with different movie versions of the same text. After carefully analyzing Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann‚ 1996)‚ West Side Story (Robbins‚ 1961)‚ and Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli‚ 1968) one finds the most accurate‚ by far‚ is

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    The Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions of William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ are similar in several ways. One way that they’re similar is at the beginning of Act I‚ scene i‚ Samson and Gregory are at the public place in Verona are talking. When they see the servants to the Montague’s walk by the Capulets servants‚ one of them bite their thumb at them. Another thing that is similar is when they draw their swords in the Zeffirelli version. In the Luhrmann version‚ they have guns

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    William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet The Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet starts off zooming into a tv very slowly‚ which has a news anchor narrating the famous prologue of Shakespeare’s world renowned tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet. Suddenly‚ the screen cuts to an intense and out of control scene of gunfire on Verona Beach from all angles‚ a gang fight involving members of both the Montagues and Capulets. It is here in the first scene that Luhrmann truly successfully captures the viewer’s attention

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    nurse fails to deliver the information about Romeo as soon as she walks through the door. Luhrmann made his version more modern‚ and makes the characters kinder to emphasize their relationship. These movies contain some similarities and differences; they both use some of the same lines‚ but portray the characters in diffrerent ways and the characters wear different types of costumes. In both movies‚ Luhrmann and Zeffirelli use some of the same lines. "Your love says‚ like an honest gentleman‚ and

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    spectacular movie‚ Moulin Rouge‚ Bazz Luhrmann created a formalistic musical about freedom‚ beauty‚ truth and most especially‚ love. In this movie‚ he creates a fictional storyline about love relative to a few historical events that occurred during the early 1900’s in Paris’ well-known nightclub‚ The Moulin Rouge. Although the events all through out the movie are portrayed in a sense of fantasy through a remarkably choreographed comic musical and melodrama‚ Luhrmann is still able to make it exceptionally

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