done. But the newest film that is out is a Romeo and Juliet that is more modernized. This film was released in 1996. The plot of the two movies was the same but the settings were both totally different. In the movie Romeo and Juliet‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ there is a sense of love and hate with the theme‚ characterization‚ and the plot through the movie showing us a more modern day love story. The 1990’s
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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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“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can” ~Jay Gatsby The latest version of The Great Gatsby‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ uses many of F Scott Fitzgerald’s original descriptions and dialogue. It respects the fact that the book is told from the point of view of Nick Carraway‚ cousin of Daisy‚ the woman who Gatsby loves. It carefully reproduces various details‚ such as the clock Gatsby drops when meeting Daisy again for the first time since she married Tom Buchanan five years earlier. It follows
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people think this is heroic but others think he was just plain stupid. The director Baz Luhrmann adapted the book into a movie and did a good job portraying some aspects of the book‚ like the characters and the overall plot. He also did a good job of adding new things into it to make the movie better‚ like Nick’s life after Gatsby. The book has some strong characters‚ which can be hard for actors to portray. Luhrmann did a great job casting the character. Leonardo Dicaprio plays Gatsby. He was a great
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end the audience see he is quite an ambiguous figure. One of the reasons that the audience are reluctant to blame Friar Lawrence is because Tybalt is also very much to blame for the fate of Romeo and Juliet because he is determined to spill Montagues blood and Romeo’s in particular which is ironic because in the end Romeo is the one who kills Tybalt‚ his cousin-in-law‚ and Romeo never had anything to do with the feud. Capulet is another character to blame for the death of the two lovers as it
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ with the same character in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation. Romeo and Juliet is generally believed to have been a poem based on a real Italian love story from the 3rd century‚ Shakespeare wrote his version of the poem as a play in 1594. Baz Luhrmann then created his version of Shakespeare’s play as a movie in 1996‚ this adaptation of Shakespeare’s play was a commercial success‚ proving particularly popular with teenage film viewers. Baz Luhrmann’s theatrical film adaptation of Shakespeare’s
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Finegan FT345: Australian Cinema 8 February 2013 Question 2: Luhrmann’s Australia and Perkins’ Bran Nue Dae could be said to approach the apology to the Stolen Generations from different perspective. Discuss with reference to style. Director Baz Luhrmann and Director Rachel Perkins both addressed Australia’s cruel and racist history and the aboriginal’s Stolen Generation in Australia and Bran Nue Dae‚ respectively. Both films follow the lead of Australian government and made an effort to apologize
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and subscribed‚ which enhance their wellbeing with the feeling of home. Additionally Belonging is obtaining membership to a particular group or society that can bring feelings of inclusion and identity. Firstly‚ the film ‘’Strictly Ballroom’’ by Baz Luhrmann highlights that in order to belong‚ individuals must be accepted by other peers or that particular group. This
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it is like to live in West and East Egg in the 1920’s‚ the time period before the Great Depression. In the movie that is directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ Gatsby is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Nick is portrayed by Tobey Maguire. This movie is definitely worth seeing if one is a big fan of the book. Although the movie has a lot of differences from the book‚ Luhrmann
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almost never as good as the book. With a classic such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”‚ it can be hard to really do it justice on the big screen yet somehow a couple directors have done just that. Jack Clayton’s 1974 version of Gatsby and Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 version drawl together old and new aspects of the roaring 20’s to bring to life “The Great Gatsby” in their own unique ways. To focus on one of the bigger aspects of the movies I will start at the beginning‚ literally‚ The beginning
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