renowned for creating remarkable movies based on Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet. The contrasting films are very different‚ including settings with a large time gap‚ instrumental and vocal music choices‚ but most visually notable‚ the costumes. Zeffirelli and Luhrmann’s interpretations of Romeo are portrayed through his costuming‚ illustrating how differing personalities are derived from the same role. Before the Capulets’ party‚ Romeo claims‚ “I do love a women‚” referring to Rosaline (1.1.212). However
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Edward‚ Edward is a ballad written in the seventeenth century. Edward‚ Edward tells the story of a man called Edward who has killed his father because he wants all of his father’s riches and is having a conversation with his mother about it. The ballad was a popular form of entertainment in the seventeenth century as people to sing them to remember them. A ballad is mostly a conversation between two people like Edward‚ Edward. Also Edward‚ Edward is written in first person and is told from Edward
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In the book of Romeo and Juliet you picture what the characters will look like. The movie shows their point of view of the characters. In the movie it shows the Montagues having a surfers characteristics. They wore a lot of beach shirts with palm trees on them. As we were reading the book I pictured them not as fancy as the Capulets but more casual type of clothing. I visioned Benvolio looking younger than Romeo and Mercutio from how the book described Benvolio. In the movie Benvolio looked a little
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Konstantin Stanislavsky and Edward Gordon Craig are both influential directors and have shaped that way we view theatre today. Stanislavsky valued a form of naturalism that the actors should have experienced a similar situation to that of the character. From this the actor could convey real human emotions to the audience. Further along in his career‚ to allow the actor into the psych of the character‚ Stanislavsky started to focus on the psychological motivations that drove the role. On the other
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Tracy Hoang Per 3 May 31‚ 2012 Westside Story and Romeo and Juliet Essay There are some plays that remind the audience about the past movie they have seen that related in the same general ideas. After learning about “Romeo and Juliet” and watch “Westside Story” play. Both plays show the audience their point of view of how the plays create in their own unique way but share the same themes and moral lessons. So‚ they bring up a lot of differences and similarities that can compare together throughout
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do. Love and hate are more alike than you think. Mortals are weird. They do thing that do not make sense. They put importance in things that other people find insignificant. They do crazy and unimaginable things for the people we love. Take “Romeo and Juliet” for incense‚ both of them commit suicide for love. People also do stupidly
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“Heritage” and is by Countee Cullen (for Harold Jackman). The social issue that motivated Cullen to write Heritage is the oppression that blacks faced and their eagerness to go back to the place that their ancestors were taken from. In the poem Cullen reflects the urge to reclaim the African arts‚ during this time‚ the Harlem Renaissance‚ blacks called this movement negritude. Cullen depicts the negro speaking on the view of Africa‚ by the all negroes. In the poem‚ Cullen uses auditory imagery‚ organic
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The play focuses on romantic love‚ specifically the deep passion that comes up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. This reading shows that both Romeo and Juliet’s love is not only dramatic but also pure. Pure in the sense that nothing can come in between their love. Not even family. In Act 2: “In truth‚ fair Montague‚ I am too fond‚ / And therefore thou mayst think my havior light. [ . . . ] I should have been more strange‚ I must confess . . . ” (Shakespeare
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’Romeo and Juliet’ is a play written by Shakespeare during the Elizabethan time‚ and illustrates the tragic destiny of two star-cross lovers‚ who have fallen in love with each other but sacrificed themselves due to family feud. Baz Luhrmann produced a movie called ’Romeo + Juliet’ in 1996‚ which follows the plot of the original play but converted into modern settings by the use of modern elements‚ characterisation‚ theatrical techniques‚ symbolism and a few suitable alterations. Hence‚ Baz Luhrmann’s
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In his 1968 interpretation of Romeo and Juliet‚ Franco Zeffirelli seems determined to defy every possible public conception of the elements of a Shakespeare movie; essentially‚ it seems to be Shakespeare distilled for public consumption. This is not to imply that Zeffirelli is not authentic in his 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
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