Comparing to versions of Romeo and Juliet The star crossed lovers‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ are presented in two famous movie productions. The first directed by Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996. The updated Luhrmann picture best captures the essence of Shakespeare for the present day viewer. Through the use of modernisation and location‚ while preserving Shakespearean language‚ to capture the audience. Equally Zeffirelli’s more historical interpretation show cases the original medieval architecture the Shakespeare
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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 first time Romeo and Juliet had laid eyes on each was at the Capulet ball. This is a very intimate scene between the two lovers in both the play and film. It is shown in the play by the word’s Shakespeare had chosen. For example‚ Romeo asks a servant‚ “What lady’s that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight?” This automatically means Romeo shows interest. It encourages us to think that he is instantly attracted to her‚ which creates the moment of the ‘love at first sight’. The love at first
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In Romeo and Juliet‚ two noble families are at war: The Montague-Capulet feud is established in the very first scene when a fight breaks out between Montague’s and Capulet’s serving men.The “ancient grudge” between the two “households” has been going on for a long period of time. However we do know know why they are at war. During the 1600s there was a lot of conflict between the Catholic church and the protestant church. Shakespeare uses the Montagues and the Capulets to portray this. The
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Baz Luhrmann’s version of “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet”‚ who is also the director of Strictly ballroom‚ is a bold adaptation of the world’s famous tragedy. He offers a trendy‚ contemporary re-telling of the classic love story with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo and Clare Danes’ Juliet. Even though it is set in a modern day Verona‚ it still shows the beauty of the romance and keeps in Shakespeare’s dialogue. Juliet is a naïve‚ obedient girl at the beginning of the story‚ having not experienced
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William Shakespeare made a story called Romeo and Juliet.Later on in 1996 the director Baz Luhrmann made a movie based on the story that William Shakespeare made called Romeo+Juliet .Popular stories are adapted into motion picture.ill be discussing about some contrast in the story romeo and juliet and its adapted motion picture.The original story takes place in Verona‚ Italy and in the movie the location is in Verona Beach‚ Florida in the United States.the capulet and the montegue in the original
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the things from the original play. Romeo‚ at one point‚ took a mind altering substance that
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In "Romeo and Juliet" a play‚ by William Shakespeare as a result of falling in love Juliet transform by being a girl lacking experience and maturity‚ looks to adult to guide her decisions‚ to becoming and independent woman.In I‚iii Juliet isa girl lacking experience and maturity‚ looks to adult to guide her decisions.In III‚ii Juliet is becoming an independent woman.In III‚v Juliet is an independent woman. In I‚iii of "Romeo and Juliet" a play‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Juliet is still a girl lacking
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the greatest writers in history. One of his most famous plays‚ Romeo and Juliet (R&J)‚ was written in the late 1590’s and is still much loved by modern audiences. R & J is the story of two teenage lovers whose marriage is doomed from the beginning because they come from feuding families. This story has been made into a movie by many film producers but 2 of the most famous were Zeferrelli’s in 1968 and Luhrmann’s in 1996. I believe Baz Luhrmann’s movie was the most believable and portrayed the tragedy
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic tale of two “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare 736) whose destinies were pre-determined. As the scenes unfold‚ the main theme of love dominates above all else. As a matter of fact‚ Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story there is in English literature. The audience is taught to accept the realm of variations of love such as love at first sight‚ lust‚ and infatuation. Throughout the decades‚ many more versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet were created including
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