Romeo And Juliet Compare And Contrast

Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet effectively appropriates the Shakespearean 16th century love tragedy. So why has Luhrmann decided to appropriate Romeo and Juliet? By changing the context, Luhrmann effectively makes the play relevant, discussing his contextual concerns of the 1990’s. This is done through the use of themes in the film, love, family disputes and hate which have remained similar to the original play, although the way they have been presented are different, in particular the form and characters. The form has had an obvious change as the original play has been adapted into a film. Characters in the film have also been appropriated to correspond with Luhrmann's contextual concerns. Hence, Luhrmann successfully appropriates the original Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet by maintaining similar themes, but altering the form and characterisation to fit his contextual concerns.

In the original play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare in 1587, throughout the years there have been movies made trying to convey the message that Shakespeare had wanted. The movies that will be examined in order to compare the differences on whether they are similar to the original are Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet and Carlo Carlei’s 2013 version, Romeo & Juliet. The movies are another version of the original play in terms of setting, tone and characters that were used in conveying the story of Romeo and Juliet. It is clearly seen that Baz Luhrmann's 1996 version is more similar to the original play as it brings out the tone and conveys the message better than the Carlo Carlei’s 2013

Romeo and Juliet is a play created by a famous playwright called William Shakespeare. Baz Luhrmann adapted the play to create a modern version of Romeo and Juliet in 1996. There are many similarities and differences in how Baz Lurhmann and Shakespeare portray the relationship between Juliet and her parents. There are many times in the scene how Shakespeare uses language, structure and form to present the relationship between Juliet and her parents, while Baz Luhrmann reveals this relationship using different camera angles and diegetic and non diegetic sounds and shot types.

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

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

In Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, is a traditional adaptation of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet, with some variations. Baz Luhrmann directed the 1996 version, also known as the MTV Romeo † Juliet. This version is very modernized, but keeps the language intact with few changes.

In their song,“They don’t know about us”, One Direction shows the feelings of the lovers who hide their love, which share similar conflict to Romeo and Juliet. Both couple hide their love from the world and their families. In the beginning of their song, One Direction express their feelings of young couple as “People say we shouldn't be together” and “We're too young to know about forever” which is telling that young couple don’t know everything. However, in Shakespeare’s play of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet expresses her love but also understands the consequences of it. In fact, when Juliet is at the balcony, she talks to herself, being worried and questions Romeo, “O Romeo,Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?” and suggests him to “ Deny thy

The play Romeo and Juliet has been recreated many times and each story changes the plot and certain feelings. The setting varies a lot in each movie, for example, the original version is in the 1400s and the Dicaprio version is in the 2000s, so a big time difference with all of them. Not only are the settings different the character can be interpreted in very different ways, like how you can compare Romeo and Tony from The original play and West Side Story, you can very easily see the difference in character development and personality. All of these movies essentially handle the same story differently but you can still easily see how they all come from Romeo and Juliet.

Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation on Romeo and Juliet has many similarities and contrasting elements with the original, made by Shakespeare. The casting, special, and Scenery of the adaptation and the original all have some things in common or are contrasting to each other.

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William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, has been put into two different yet similar interpretations by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann in 1997. Though their interpretations are based off the same play, which is reason for many similarities within them, they tend to part ways quite often throughout their ways of recreating Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet.

The Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous of all time. Because this play is so famous, there have been several Hollywood producers who have decided to recreate the play using their own styles. One of those movies was directed by Baz Luhrman and was released in 1996 and there is also a movie directed by Carlo Carlei which was released in 2013. Even though these two movies were both based on the same play, they both have very different styles in all of the aspects of the movie and also very similar styles.

The way Franco Zeffirelli portrayed William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy of, Romeo and Juliet, is very similar to the way Baz Luhrmann told this tragedy. Both versions of Romeo and Juliet have the same characters, words, and plotline. In Franco Zeffirelli’s version the characters have the same names as the characters in Baz Luhrmann’s version of the film. Even though in Franco Zeffirelli’s version the dialogue used is more sophisticated and in Baz Luhrmann's version words are more modern, both dialogues are are very similar. As well as that, the feud between the two families is very similar, Both of the films show the same issue happening between the Montagues and the Capulets. As you can see, the way Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann portrayed

In romeo and juliet, romeo was most responsible for juliet and romeo's death. To start, romeo killed tybalt which lead to him getting banished. Which lead to juliet wanting to be with him and go live with him. Romeo says to tybalt” This shall determine that.” ( 3.1.140-141)

“Romeo + Juliet” is the 1996 film by director Baz Luhrman. Set in America’s fictional “Verona Beach”, Luhrman alters the well-known story through the addition of current clothing, props, settins and drama to appeal to a wider and modern audience.