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    interpretation of the text and drama; rather‚ he is‚ in the truest sense‚ staging an adaptation of the ancient tragedy to the modern medium of film. Far from altering or rejecting the Elizabethan conventions of style‚ tone‚ and presentation as Baz Luhrmann perhaps did three decades later‚ Zeffirelli incorporates these elements seamlessly into the more contemporary genre of Hollywood romance‚ in the process infusing the oft-told story with a vibrancy and relevance that was perhaps unparalleled in

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    business associate of Gatbsy’s‚ who is thought to be involved in New York’s underworld.He might be a Bollywood icon‚ but his part in The Great Gatsby marks Amitabh’s first Hollywood film‚ despite it being a cameo.The actor revealed that director Luhrmann had visited him in Mumbai two years ago to offer him the role in person. ’I play Meyer Wolfsheim for about a few seconds... by the time you look down on your popcorn to pick another morsel‚ I’d be gone from the film‚’ he posted on his Twitter account

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    Who is Daisy Buchanan? She can be described as superficial‚ shallow‚ fake and ditzy. However‚ there is another part of her‚ a deeper part‚ that she hides from everyone‚ including herself. Beneath the surface‚ there is a pool where not even light dares to go. That is her character‚ and it takes Jay Gatsby to churn the waters and bring the purest form of Daisy to the surface‚ if only for an instant. At a first glance‚ Daisy is an utterly flat character‚ she came from wealth‚ she is currently wealthy

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    Romeo and Juliet essay Baz Lurhman’s modern film interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been a very successful transformation of the classic‚ original play to a modern context of Los. Angelos gang warfare. Lurhman’s film manages to relate the 16th century play to a modern audience while at the same time maintaining textual integrity of the play. He has retained the plot‚ and language of the original text at the same time as conveying Shakespeare’s

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    The Moulin Rouge is a club in Paris; it is a place of entertainment. The Moulin Rouge is also a brothel and bar‚ it is a place were the rich and beautiful come to play. The working men of the daytime come to escape reality and to unwind and relax. Baz Lurhmann does a good job of covering up that the Moulin Rouge is a brothel and that Satine is a prostitute‚ and leads us to believe that it is a place of beauty and love. Lurhmann does this through technique‚ visuals and characters. Satine and Christian

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    Analyse the Significance of the opening scenes in the film you have studied The opening scenes in the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene

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    reveal their relationships but also to understand one another and express themselves through the use of _ _ _ _ _(silence‚ power and control). Thus‚ _ _ _ _‚relationships ‚ power and control are explored by the audience in both “Strictly Ballroom” by Baz Lurhmann and “Running Away” by Tony Coult. In both texts‚ dialogue reveals a sense of movement‚ power and control‚ and the mood of the characters which help the responders to develop an understanding of the characters‚ thereby determining the_ _ _

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    Romeo & Juliet English Faculty Activity one: Shakespeare Translation Have you ever wondered what the world might sound like if we still spoke Shakespearean English? Imagine switching the television on to hear a commentator calling a game of football: “Marry‚ in the very air he doth leap and like the eagle he soars to grab the flying pig-skin. What‚ ho – the umpire doth cry ‘play on’ – but Franklin hath not heard and is strewn to the ground. Marry‚ he doth protest‚ calling

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    following his summer with Gatsby and has been diagnosed as a "morbid alcoholic‚" among other things. Viewers are introduced to this concept in the very beginning and also see the point at which Nick begins to write the manuscript. Additionally‚ Luhrmann often flashes forward to Maguire to remind them that he’s a writer. Of course‚ this isn’t the first time the director has taken such a storytelling approach -- "Moulin Rouge" was also told from the perspective of a writer‚ and both films frequently

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    About Punjab * The state bird of Punjab is the Baz (Eastern Goshawk) * the state animal is the Blackbuck * Capital : Chandigarh * Districts : 22 Punjab is situated in the northwestern corner of the country. It is bound on the north by the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir ‚ on the east by Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Chandigarh ‚ on the south by Haryana and Rajasthan‚ and on the west by Pakistan. The city of Chandigarh is the administrative capital of Punjab. Agriculture

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