cousin Tybalt‚ a Capulet‚ is killed by Romeo‚ a Montague. Romeo and Juliet are first seen as very different characters‚ but later in the play‚ we realise that these two characters are not as different as we thought. In Act 3 scene 5 of Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ the scene first starts with Romeo and Juliet in Juliet’s bed. They have just spent their first‚ and last night together. Romeo wakes and realises that he must leave‚ as he has been banished for killing Juliet’s cousin Tybalt. At
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Moulin Rouge(2001) is an Oscar winning master piece from director Baz Luhrmann. It followed the success and recognition of Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Strictly Ballroom (1992). All three films were recognized for Luhrmann’s characteristic style. His films feature stylistic choices such as blue and red lighting‚ the use of rapid cuts and vibrant‚ period accurate costume. To analyze Luhrmann’s use of the four elements of the stylistic system‚ I will consider two specific scenes from the film‚ namely
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musicals‚ and operas‚ itself borrowed from an Italian tale; The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke‚ 1562 and Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1582. Romeo and Juliet became one of Shakespeare’s most well-known tragedies. Baz Luhrman’s 1996 feature film Romeo + Juliet took on the challenge of adapting Shakespeare’s play into film. While retaining the original script‚ Luhrman changed almost everything else; the music score‚ the setting‚ the visual style‚ costumes and the
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bond with Juliet‚ comforting her‚ helping her to see Romeo‚ and just being someone she can talk to in general. This is because‚ in all films Juliet has built trust with her nurse. In all films Tybalt is very sneaky and kniving‚ having a certain hate of his own for Romeo and is out to get revenge. Tybalt is actually the one to kill Mercutio in all films by “accident”. This is because‚ he wants to make Lord Capulet proud of him. Lady Montague is very rarely seen or heard of in this movie but still
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A popular game for children to play is “telephone.” In “telephone‚” the children line up‚ and certain words are whispered into the first child’s ear. The first child whispers what they heard into the second child’s ear and this trend continues until the last child is reached. The last child then announces what he heard and‚ usually‚ he says something completely different from the original words. Stories change in much of the same manner the words in “telephone” do—as time passes‚ understanding
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tale of love‚ lust and tragedy. Well‚ it’s happened again. People are at loggerheads over who is to blame. The Capulets? The Montagues? Or one of those small characters in-between? On internet forums and online discussion sites there’s numerous Baz Lurhmann fans clamouring to add their opinion. Admittedly‚ they’re quite well done. Of course‚ you have the odd drongo who couldn’t be bothered to give the matter any thought: Shakespeare’s fault‚ he wrote the play in the first place *smiley face*
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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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Stephen King once said‚ “the most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings”. This quote is a complex way of saying that people need to share how they feel even though most of the time it is hard to be able to say how you feel‚ whether out of shame or just not wanting to share. When F. Scott Fitzgerald could not say how he felt about his dwindling marriage he turned it into fiction by writing his wife‚ Zelda‚ into Daisy
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Reading for Understanding: Bones In the story "Bones" by J. Lee Engfer‚ we meet a young‚ 27 year old‚ self diagnosed hypochondriac named Lea who acts as if she doesn’t appreciate life. Lea in the beginning of the story is a pessimist but towards the end we see a change in her ideas and thinking until she becomes optimistic about her life. We also meet a young spirited older woman named Thea who is vivacious and fun loving with a sense of style which makes her almost 1940’s Hollywood-esque
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opens the reader in a fictional town of West Egg in New York in the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald described the novel in a Jazz Era‚ with lavishing parties. There were two versions of film produced‚ 1974 directed by Jack Clayton and 2013 directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ which follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick‚ and shows the roaring twenties life style. The Great Gatsby indicates the American Dream as a bigger impact in Gatsby’s life‚ but in the 1920’s it reaches the exploration
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