Comparing Baz Lurhman's Romeo And Juliet

In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, impetuosity between Romeo and Juliet will ultimately be the cause of their deaths. The passion between the two caused them to rush into foolish adolescent events. Romeo's and Juliet's burning love is to blame for their fast yet fatal marriage. Shortly after the unpublished wedding it all goes down hill, Romeo kills Juliet's faithful cousin, Tybalt, in a brutal sword fight. With Romeo's action his punishment is exile from Verona, and to leave his unseen faithful wife.

Luhrmann’s production of Shakespeare’s tragic play, Romeo and Juliet, appeals to the audience members largely due to Mercutio’s death. The weather, the acting and the music make this version powerful. The acting makes this scene of the movie believable when Mercutio was dying, Romeo was getting sad and started crying. Tybalt felt so bad that he killed Mercutio and didn’t know what to do he was just shocked and stood still looking at Romeo and Mercutio. The weather was sunny, hot and the sky was blue and the clouds were out and about. When Mercutio cursed both Romeo and Tybalt houses and started to die the weather started to change. The skies started to turn dark grey and thunder and lightning began and the wind so powerful started to blow all things around it away. Then out of nowhere a powerful storm has began to start when Mercutio was dying in Romeo’s arms. After Romeo killed Tybalt the storm began to become calm down and the storm had stop.

Adaptations are a prospect that is universally debatable on what makes a good contemporary reworking of a text. This notion is especially true for that of Shakespearean plays. Over the years, many of his works have been adapted and modernized throughout film and other various media outlets; Romeo and Juliet being one of the Shakespearean plays with the most adaptations, especially in film. Three of those films being Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann, West Side Story by Robert Wise, and Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet. Though adapting the same story, the way these films modernize and update the original story of Romeo & Juliet are heavily influenced by the audience and society of their time. However, the one aspect that always stays the same in

William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, tells the story of the tragic love between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The play has been reinterpreted throughout time and Baz Luhrmann’s film version, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, uses a modern setting to tell the tale. Luhrmann’s cinematic understanding reinforces the key themes of love, fate and hate as he explores Shakespeare’s famous play.

The world-renowned play written by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, is about two young teenagers who fall in love, but because their families have an ongoing feud, Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is frowned upon. This classic play comes to a tragic end when both Romeo and Juliet kill themselves in order to be together forever in Heaven. Although their love was young, Romeo and Juliet decide to secretly get married by Friar Lawrence at the church. They were ready to be bound to each other forever by marriage, “For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone till Holy Church incorporate two in one” (Shakespeare 111). This scene takes place at the church and is very symbolic because Romeo and Juliet tie their hands in marriage forever. Another important scene where Romeo and Juliet

“William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet”, as portrayed in Luhrmann’s 1997 film, reveals that the cause of love will always lead to the consequence of death. Luhrmann focuses on highlighting this connection through the usage of props, costumes, and symbols, the foreshadowing of Romeo’s and Juliet’s fate, and Romeo’s compassion for his friends and family throughout the film. These aspects of the film emphasize the connection of love and death and explore the harsh realities and truths relating to this connection.

Another reason I believe Luhrmann's interpretation was better is how he portrayed the nurse. The nurse in the play is a very comical and important character. Her strong bond with Juliet is shown in Luhrmann’s movie but in Zeffirelli's movie the bond seems weaker. Luhrmann I believe does a better job showing that the nurse cares for Juliet. However Luhrmann does cut out nurses more lengthy speech, but I believe it's for the best as the speech in my opinion was more confusing than helpful. The nurse in Zeffirelli's movie cares for Juliet but it didn't seem as sincere, they didn't have the same friendship shown in Luhrmann's. The nurse in the more modern movie I believe showed the relationship better while still keeping the comedy needed. I think

In the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet he modernised many scenes such as the balcony scene (pool scene), fight scenes and tomb scene. The scenes aren't the only thing that is modernised the costumes and props are also modernised.

However some people will step up to defend the parents and suggest they only wanted the best for their children, like any parent does. Perhaps what was best was that Romeo and Juliet should not have met. We don't know the full details of the feud, perhaps no one in the play does, there may be a good reason for it but there may not. Also, nowadays it is perhaps easier to say the parents are to blame for being absent as we are used to seeing parents play a much larger role in their children's lives. This play was written in Elizabethan times when it was common for noble families, such as the Capulets and Montagues, to employ a nurse to raise their children. One cannot really fault the parents if, in Elizabethan society's eyes, they were acting accordingly. On the subject of society, arranged marriages were probably common as well between wealthy families and were seen as the normal and proper thing. It would have been the parents' duty to see their children were well-matched and that is

Baz Luhrman’s Romeo +Juliet is a modernised version of the famous play by Shakespeare also called Romeo and Juliet. The story follows the life of two “star-crossed lovers” and their struggle to come together because of the feud between the Montague and the Capulet families. Throughout the movie important settings such as the pool(the modernised version of the balcony scene), the church where Romeo and Juliet marry and finally the setting inside the church where the infamous double suicide takes place. These settings help the viewer to understand the idea of their love being pure and exciting by modernising it from the original play, showcasing the importance Verona Beach and Romeo and Juliet gave religion in their love and finally their quest

In Shakespearian plays, Shakespeare’s words don’t change, but the way his words are portrayed is ever changing. There are multiple plays all different portraits of each of Shakespeare’s words. Each director has a different perspective and therefore a different interpretation of Shakespeare’s words. Romeo and Juliet is an iconic love story of Shakespeare’s design. Plays, movies, even books have been inspired by his Romeo and Juliet story.

From love to death and death for love. Romeo and Juliet the love tragedy of two rival families. many views and opinions were made on this the movies we're most viewed for example romeo and juliet from 1968 and romeo and juliet from 2013. The movies were created at different times and the points of views and ideas were different as well. From the play of 1968 consist of the leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as main characters and in the 2013 movie consist of Douglas booth and hailee steinfeld.

1. In this scene, Romeo has fallen in love with Juliet at first sight. He desires Juliet to something very “bright”(1.5 Line 51) as “a rich jewel”(1.5 Line 53) and how beautiful she is compared to other ladies. Romeo uses figure of speech as he compares her to many different types of things, for example, a “snowy dove”(1.4 Line 55) as they are beautiful to “crows”

Baz Luhrman’s filmed adaption of Shakespeare’s play, Romeo + Juliet was released in 1996 and starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the leading roles. The film brought the ancient script to a modern time based in Verona, Italy. The Montagues and Capulets are represented as enemy mafia empires and swords are replaced with guns. This analytic essay will examine the various dramatic elements featured in the film, such as, roles and relationships, tension and the mood and atmosphere displayed throughout the film.

The poisoned youth that's what we are. Our generation is filled with lies and secrets a time where everyone knows everyone's business and rumors spread quick. Some people say that before us, teenagers were more respectful towards their parents and listened to them well, but is that really true? In the olden days kids still disrespected their parents they just didn't know.