Romeo And Juliet Compare And Contrast Essay

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Luhrmann’s variation of the film is more suited to a teenage audience than Zeffirelli’s due to the vibrant settings and modern sets utilised throughout the film. Several of these sets include the beach, high rise buildings and petrol stations. These factors are used to tempt a younger audience. Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, however takes place in a medieval Italian city. Although the original play was based and performed in this location, teenage viewers cannot relate to the surroundings, hence making it difficult to understand or appreciate the plot.

After the opening monologue and montage there is a clash between members of the two households at a petrol station. It starts with some light humour with discussion of biting thumbs at each other before quickly escalating. Guns are soon drawn and innocent bystanders are involved before a fire starts and is soon strongly burning. This fight soon involves the whole country and the police and army intervene in order to break it up. Luhrmann also uses close-up shots of Tybalt and Benvolio as well as several slow-motion shots of key events to show the increase in tension. Luhrmann uses the fire is a visual example of the burning detestation between the two families. In contrast, Shakespeare’s opening scene is not as violent, contains no fire and has more humour. Another example of how Luhrmann shows the animosity between the two families is by leaving their feud unresolved. However, in Shakespeare’s play there is a brief conversation between Montague and Capulet at the end where they promise to build gold statues of the others child. In the film Luhrmann cuts out the interaction, choosing instead to finish the film with the Prince’s line “All are punished,” before having the news reader say the Prince’s final speech of the play, summing up the sad ending of Romeo and Juliet. This highlights the

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.

Act III, scene i of Romeo & Juliet is the climax of the story, in which two fights are portrayed, one between Mercutio and Tybalt, and one between Romeo and Tybalt, which lead to the deaths of both Mercutio and Tybalt. When portrayed in film form in Zeffirelli’s 1968 version, and Luhrmann’s 1996 version, 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 portrayals.

details. One example of this is in the beginning of the story. In the play,

In Luhrmann’s movie, there are two rival gangs known as the Montague and the Capulet. The movie is set in Verona Beach which is like a modern version of Verona. Romeo, son of the head Montague, falls in love with Juliet which is

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

With Halloween being right around the corner, children are preparing for ABC’s “Thirteen Nights of Halloween,” parents are picking up pumpkins to celebrate the Celtic holiday, and the urge for a good horror story is emerging. The monster, such as vampires or zombies, is taking the spotlight and it’s hard to ignore. From Dante’s Inferno to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, being frightened has not only been one of people’s favorite pastimes, but a way for us to explain the paranormal and unrevealed. In recent times however, there seems to be a shift from demonic creatures of the night to over sexualized human-like creatures who hide amongst us in the day. In this essay, I will show the gradual humanizing of the vampire and how it has morphed from a demonic creature damned by God into a creature with a big heart that is not much different from us.

The way men convey their love for the first time is very similar, if not exactly the same in both literature and songs. “Michelle,” is a song performed by Sir Paul McCartney, at the White House for Barack and Michelle Obama. In the song, a man is trying to woo a woman, whom of which we assume is French; it is also. Lines 44-53 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is an excerpt from a play by William Shakespeare. In the excerpt, Romeo sees a young lady, who he does not know yet that it is Juliet, and shows instant interest upon putting his eyes on her. Considering both sources and what they say about men when they express their emotions, we can presume that when a male first has a passionate attraction to someone, that man is influenced by those emotions

4 Assignment 2 Drama Assignment Do our Differences Define Us? 1.Do our differences define us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20points)We are defined both by our differences and by our similarities. These elements are co-dependent on each other, and serve to make a rounded identity of ourselves.2.

“Nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you can save that can’t be saved. Nothing you can do but you learn how to be you in time. It’s Easy.” Can you imagine, writing a song in 11 days that would be performed in front of approximately 400 million people all over the world? Sounds a bit unrealistic doesn’t it? The Beatles were asked to write a song that they would broadcast all over the world. A song that had a massage, a massage that was clear and easy to understand. Geoff Emerick once said “I don’t know if they had prepared any ides but they left it very late to write the song. John said ‘Oh God, is it that close? I suppose we’d better write something.’ “Perhaps it was the 11 day crunch that made this song a hit, or maybe it was the massage. All many know is that “All You Need is Love” is a song that has been carried throughout history for years. Many would classify this song as a classic, much like

Shakespeare represents the idea of how holiness and passionate Romeo’s love for Juliet are, through the metaphor in the quote “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” The metaphor conveys the idea of Romeo’s lips acting as pilgrims, ready to kiss Juliet tenderly. Comparing his lips to pilgrims that will worship Juliet’s lips like pilgrims who’s worship a holy place. Despite only knowing Juliet for a short period of time- still, Romeo shows his passionate love and desire to kiss Juliet. Luhrmann’s modern version which portrays the ideas through Juliet’s angel costume and the panning film technique.

Tragedies explore the downfall of a main character with a doomed fate.The play Romeo and Juliet written by the playwright William Shakespeare and the film adaption directed by Baz Luhrmann use imagery to make the audience aware of Romeo and Juliet’s doomed fate. Both texts explore the story of two lovers whose destiny was to end up together dead in the afterlife. In the print version, William Shakespeare illustrates the significance of imagery through the recurring symbols and motifs of stars and light and dark. In the film version, Baz Luhrmann demonstrates the significance of imagery through the recurring symbols and motifs of religious objects and symbols as well as water.

Although the two Romeo and Juliet portray the same message and similar storyline, they both have been interpreted to match their decade of movie genres. The Lurhmann is a much more modern and carefully thought film as for the Zefferelli version, he sticks mainly to the original Shakespeare’s version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The Balcony scene in the two films has significant dramatic and physical differences. One of which is the modernisation of the environment, the facial expressions of the characters chances the entire dialogue message from serious to a joking manner. Last point of comparison would consist of the background music and the surrounding aimed for by the directors.