Essay Comparing Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet

Love plays a crucial role in telling the story of Romeo and Juliet, clearly shown in the appropriated Luhrmann film. Using film as a new medium, cinematic techniques explore the love between Romeo and Juliet. The balcony scene is a clear example of how Luhrmann expresses this. To show his love for Juliet, Romeo decides to sneak into the Capulet mansion to confess his love for her. When Romeo sees Juliet through his window, light shines around her and he describes it as, “ the sun.” This suggests that Romeo is calling Juliet the brightness in his life. Luhrmann decided to portray Romeo

An important scene is the Capulet's ball where Romeo and Juliet first meet. This shows their love-at-first-sight and can be interpreted in many ways. In Act 1 scene 5, Baz Luhrmann's modern film version presents Romeo and Juliet first seeing each other through a tropical fish tank. This is a very effective way of showing how they met, Romeo and Juliet didn't understand the quarreling between their families but they were caught up in it, the first thing they truly understood was that there was something they wanted that was the other side of the tank, each other. Something tantalizing because of the fish tank, yet the tank made it unattainable. You can walk around a fish tank and they met each other soon enough, but it turned out that in the end, it was

This is particularly apparent as he continuously and secretly visits Juliet late at night at her house, despite the dangers. His actions help prove that his only desire is to be with Juliet. He wishes for a life that “in it [Juliet] might I love, you honour, serve and please.” ( Line 513). However, their situation holds them back from truly expressing their love for one another. They are star crossed lovers with families that disapprove of their love to the extent that they are described as each other’s “deadly foes.” Overall, these characters help illustrate the main theme: romantic love. As a result of their actions and dialogue, they depict the passion and yearning that characterizes young love. Additionally, they prove that love is an overpowering force that transcends rational thinking and other emotions or values. I believe that as an effect of external forces, their love may be will be impaired which would further the

Shakespeare’s diction helped to develop the mood of romance in this scene by showing how much love and affection Romeo has for Juliet. “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And

The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about the dilemma of choosing love over loyalty for your family. In the story Romeo and Juliet come from separate families who hate each other, but still find love in each other. They get married without telling their families and eventually the two families get into a fight which ends in Romeo getting banished from the city where Juliet lives. They have a plan for him to get back into to the city to prevent Juliet from being forced to marry another man, but it fails and ends with the suicide death of both Juliet and Romeo. Shakespeare's major theme in the text is that Love plays a major role in our lives and can heavily affect our decisions.

Of the two cinematic portrayals of the climax, in Act II, scene i, of Romeo & Juliet, the Luhrmann version from 1996 is superior to the Zeffirelli version. When comparing the two one can notice that there are many differences, and similarities. While these two films are telling the same story, it is the differences between the two that lead to Luhrmann’s 1996 version being superior. Due to its more dramatic settings, and character interactions and actor

The film and the play, Romeo and Juliet is an ever grey due to tragic over tones play which draws undivided attention of Shakespeare’s writing even during this modern era. The 1996 version, Baz Lurhmann adopted the storyline to reflect the revealing trend of dispute between two feuding families. A film which shows a detailed study of the play of the immensely popular 1996 version directed by Baz Lurhmann.

“The most filmed of all plays, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, with its universal themes… remains uniquely adaptable for any time period,” (Botnick, 2002). Directors Franco Zeffirelli (1968) and Baz Luhrman

Romeo and Juliet is a timeless story about two ill-fated lovers. Originally written by, Shakespeare, this story has been adapted by different directors who all commonly try to add their own unique twist to it. Two of the most prevalent adaptations of Romeo and Juliet have been done by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann, who have taken this love story to the big screen. Franco Zeffirelli’s movie, which was produced in 1968, is extremely authentic and stays true to Shakespeare's vision, whereas, Baz Luhrmann’s version produced in 1996, is contemporary and appeals more to younger audiences. There are various differences and a couple of similarities between Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann’s movie versions such as the costumes, their interpretations of

Baz Luhrmann, a well known film director, adapted this love story to film in 1996, which is called Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy about two young lovers who cannot be together because their families are enemies. Baz Luhrmann directed 'William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet' recounts the Romeo and Juliet story utilizing Shakespearean Language set as a modern day environment. Not all viewers would recognize the language of Shakespeare so the mise en scene and additionally the performers' developments are essential to ensure that the audience recognizes what is happening inside of the dialog. In this essay, I will talk about whether Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann's film updates Shakespeare

Zeffirelli’s film depiction of the balcony scene is superior to Luhrmann’s film because it is truer to Shakespeare's play and has a better interpretation of the play to film. The films are similar in that it's night and Juliet looks out her balcony as Romeo leaves her house. Although the Luhrmann film depiction during the balcony scene was in a lavish house which would have never been seen during the time frame of when the play was written. There may have been lavish houses during the time the play was written, but they don’t come close to the setting in the Zeffirelli film. This plays a key role in the film seeing that the accuracy of the events of the scene help to give the viewers an enhanced feel to the original atmosphere. Another significant

Luhrmann uses a similar motif technique, blurring everything else whilst the couple fall in love. In Luhrmann’s film, this motive is revisited in the form of Romeo’s “trip” which mimics the frenzied whirl and hum of love-at-first-sight. To contrast the fast paced excitement of the dances, both directors use a slow song for the actual meeting of Romeo and Juliet; in both films this song then becomes the theme for Romeo and Juliet’s love. In Zeffirelli’s adaptation, this scene is a kind of hide and seek between Romeo and Juliet, each searching for the other in a childlike game, their young faces contrasted with the disapproving looks of the older folk around them. The use of song is particularly important to the sequence of Romeo and Juliet’s meeting in Luhrmann’s adaptation, which plays as their eyes meet through an aquarium. Luhrmann’s camera produces a series of floating eye-line matches that follow Romeo and Juliet’s gaze as they dart about in search of each other through the strobe-like glint of water, fish and wonder that characterizes this surreal love-at-first-sight sequence. This striking imagery, coupled with the Des’ree song, creates ‘a kind of aural scenography which is as important as the costumes […] [it is] a sound which creeps into you. This use of a popular soundtrack, coupled with Luhrmann’s use of ‘glossy atmospherics, and breakneck speed is what many use to criticize

With such intricate metaphors used throughout all of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet it benefits the reader with constant evidence of the unique and extravagant love that the two main characters

This scene is so famous because it conveys the idea that true love exists. Romeo and Juliet claim that they love each other, which resonates with people because it triggers with the basic human instinct to connect to love, regardless of their own personal definition. This scene continues to be popular because people love to identify the best possible outcome. In this case, people want to see that Romeo and Juliet have an amazing love, and can’t be together because of their families, but in reality, it’s their poor decisions that make their perceptual love disabled. Those who aren’t even familiar with the play know this scene and therefore think that Romeo and Juliet have a real, pure love. This idea gives the idea that everything will work

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most vulnerable, famous, forbidden and romantic love story ever told. A love story between Romeo of Montague and Juliet of Capulet . Two families having a feud. It was vulnerable for the fact that the events in this story. The story shows the weaknesses and the most poor side of love and the person in the story. On the other side, the popularity of the story become more rise when the other love stories where inspired by it. When I am having a research about this novel, I found out that there were 54 films that was inspired by this love story. As I was reading the story, and I observed that Romeo is a teen ager-minded type of man in his age, as others act in this present times, he is not different