Balcony Scene…or Lack There Of Shakespeare in Love and Film 2 February 2005 The Legendary Balcony Scene…or Lack There Of Being a virgin viewer of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet‚ I found myself dissatisfied as I began to see the famous balcony scene reveal itself on the courtyard floor. “Where is the barrier‚ the ‘stony limits’ that separates the lovers from each other?” I inquired. How could the most renowned scene of William Shakespeare’s most popular play be missing
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frenzy amongst the devoted readers. When Baz Luhrmann did it in 1996 with Romeo and Juliet he makes sure you don’t leave without tears down your eyes and your heart feeling heavy. Romeo and Juliet having an amazing cast and your emotions never once being spared especially in the end. The ending of the play Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is drastically different from the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film version‚ which portrays a more tragic incident. In contrast to the film‚ the play’s ending gives a less
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Romeo and Juliet: Comparison and Contrast paragraph It is not surprise that the popular tragedy of love Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare was adapted into a motion picture by Baz Luhrman in the year 1999. Although the plot of the story was more or less the same‚ the film adaptation showed various amounts of differences to the original play. For instance; the whole movie was modernized‚ there was missing detail in scenes‚ and the last scene was modified. Firstly‚ the film was made
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would have taken place in. The older version also did a better job staying true to what Shakespeare originally was presenting in the play. The second takes much more liberty in what the characters do and how they do it. The more modern version changed many of the things from the original play. Romeo‚ at one point‚ took a mind altering substance that
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Baz Luhrmann transformed William Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet‚ to a fast moving‚ modern adaptation‚ the film Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann has transformed the context‚ setting‚ costume‚ music‚ language and the themes in Romeo and Juliet. Although Luhrmann has transformed some things‚ he has redefined the love story gone wrong and made a film about the corruption in society. Luhrmann has transformed the original Shakespeare play using various film techniques and language devices‚ such as in the
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Romeo and Juliet‚ the dramatic love story everyone knows. Many times the play by William Shakespeare is compared to the movie produced by Baz Luhrman. Most always when movies are compared to the books‚ the books are better‚ but not quite in this case. Yes‚ the play is very good as well as the movie‚ but the play has its great parts‚ and its not so great parts as well. Just like the movie‚ it also has its good parts also many things that are the same in both the movie and play‚ but of course they
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Compare/contrast: Balcony Scene There are many things that make the balcony scenes in both the Franco Zeffirelli and the Baz Luhrmann productions so prolific. First‚ in the Zeffirelli production (1968)‚ the setting was at evening with Romeo behind an overgrown garden and Juliet upstairs in what appeared to be an old hillside stone villa. This setting worked for me because the scene showed the reality that the other movie lacked. In this particular scene I thought Romeo and Juliet’s performances
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by William Shakespeare‚ has appeared in many mediums of art throughout the years. Nearly every artist who has sunk their teeth into this classical piece of literature has added their own twist to change the effect the piece has on the viewer; in 1996 Baz Luhrmann came out with his own film version of the classic tale. Like most recreated versions he made many impactful changes that overall added to the drama at the end of the play. For example he chooses to show that the law is chasing Romeo‚ takes
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This term the year levels have been introduced to Romeo and Juliet as soon as we were told about the story and how quick everything happened we thought the movie was going to be terrible. We watched two different Romeo and Juliet movies.Baz Luhrmann’s movie was more about violence then love but it had a more modern theme and was more in your face then Franco Zeffirelli.Franco Zeffirelli movie got boring as it wasn’t as loud and as in your face then Baz Luhrmann’s I thought that it Franco Ziffirelli
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huge part in shakespeare’s plays. In Romeo and Juliet ‚by William Shakespeare‚ it seems that fate is the reason for the tragic death of them both. Fate foretold the deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ this would eventually‚ end the feud their families had. There are several events in the play that fate takes control of. Even in the prologue it mentions they were meant to die “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;”(Prologue‚ 6) The events are: in Act 1‚ Romeo and Benvolio get a chance to go to a
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