Romeo And Juliet: Comparing The Book And Movie

First off we are going to talk about the plot in the original play. At the beginning of the play Romeo liked a girl named Rosaline but then he went to a masquerade party and saw Juliet and instantly

     Now how about some similarities. My first similarity is in both versions how the people carried around weapons. In the old one the people of Verona carried swords. In the modern version of the play the people of Verona carried handguns. Two different weapons, but they were used in the same fashion in both versions of the play. Another likeness is Paris didn’t bite the dust in any of the versions. He is only in a few scenes. He’s not even in the last scene where he was supposed to meet his maker. While on the subject of death, Lady Montague does not die in either version. She is seen exiting the final scene in both versions. She doesn’t even have a big role in the story. My next similarity is the

There are some key details in both the movie and the script. Some key details in the play are that romeo hides in the darkness, and that he is stalking juliet in a way. It also takes place on a balconey near the streets,”[Seeing Juliet enter above on a balcony]” (Act II Scene 2, Page 71) which is a lot more in older days than modern. In the movie version, some key details are that romeo is hidden kind of on a vine, not so much hidden thought.(You can see in the 1997 movie, Romeo + Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann.) The setting is also on a deck and a pool. Those are some of the key details you will need to know.

In order to compare and contrast the play to the movie,first I will discuss the play .In the play there is a character named Romeo.Lovely Romeo wanted to marry Juliet and stay with her in Verona,Italy.But

In the play Romeo was a little different than in the movie. In the play, Romeo cried over Rosaline and in the movie he did not physically cry. He just played pool and smoked instead of crying. Also in the movie, Romeo and his friends were always hanging out on the beach while in the play they didn’t. Also in the play, Romeo seemed more mature and adultlike than in the movie. Also in the play you kind of get the picture that the Capulets and the Montagues have the same toughness and intelligence but in the movie the Capulets and their friends are more reserved and mature than the Montagues.

The movie was faithful to the text but modernized to become easier for the younger gerneration to understand. The changes Baz Lurhmann made in the movie was to make the audience familiar with the movie and relate to it. Using moderized songs, setting and situations increases the younger generation audience. The movie helped many people truly understand the Romeo and Juliet story by just looking at the characters facial expressions or how they were dressed and body language and much more. I think that Baz Lurhmann made a very successful movie by making Romeo and Juliet modern and more interesting for the younger

Setting is an element which can be looked over by the viewer. Sometimes what makes a scene work can be fully tied to its setting and props. With a setting that is realistic and well thought, you can truly tie a scene together. In the Franco Zeffirelli version of the play, we can see that the setting is around the Capulet mansion, by Juliet’s balcony. Romeo is below hiding in the bushes. The leaves of the bushes and how Romeo is below them show us how he is hiding and can’t be seen by anyone, the night sky and how dark it is in this scene also hide Romeo. Juliet is sitting on the ledge of her balcony. In this production, the balcony is made very wide, so in the scene, Juliet can walk along the entire balcony before Romeo speaks. This also gives her enough space to run away when she is scared by Romeo’s voice. The plot is not affected too much by these choices other than being able to have Juliet almost run away from Romeo. Through these setting options that Franco Zeffirelli took during his production, we have a medieval time period look and a more original looking production. However, the

The scene takes place in a pool, rather than on an actual balcony. Also, instead of the actors coming together from far apart, they are close together the whole time in Luhrmann’s rendition, making the scene seem somewhat unrealistic. The costumes Juliet and Romeo were wearing were more modern, so they did not even look like costumes. Perhaps due to having more experience, the faces of the actors were difficult to read. They also spoke their lines as if in an everyday conversation, as opposed to being actors in a play. These characteristics are why the 1996 version varies from its 1968

On this online encyclopedia, there is a page dedicated to Romeo & Juliet filled with various resources and information; one such source being an essay on Zeffirelli 's and Luhrmann’s version of Romeo & Juliet by Bryan Aubrey. In this essay, Aubrey compares the two films

There were quite of few differences between William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play and Baz Luhrmann’s movie based on the play. For example, the ending scene in the movie left out a lot. Paris never showed up at the cemetery to place flowers at Juliet’s tomb. Thus, Paris and Romeo never got in a quarrel that had ended in Paris’s death. Baz Luhrmann probably left out this small part in the movie because Paris wasn’t a major character in the movie. Also at that part in the scene there was already a lot going on, so leaving out that fight between Romeo and Paris wouldn’t have taken a huge toll in that certain scene. In the play that small detail told the readers that Paris’s love was true for Juliet. However by leaving out that part out in the movie it didn’t tell the audience if Paris was actually into the marriage for true love. Also Juliet was awake before Romeo died as well. However he didn’t notice that she was awake quick enough before he had drank the poison. By having Juliet wake before Romeo passed away made that

Comparing the movie to the film, it follows the same concept although there is a ton of differences. First off, they have a fake wedding inside of a dress shop in the movie and in the play the couple gets secretly married, but it’s still the real deal. A big thing that I noticed is the death situation compared to the play, in the play Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, which leads Romeo to drink poison because he doesn’t think Juliet loves him, which causes Juliet to commit suicide using his

The scene that was most different between the play and the movie of Romeo and Juliet was how the two crossed lovers first met each other. In the play Romeo and the Montague boys find out about the Capulet party through a poor peasant who could not read the invitations. While in the movie the Capulet party is announced through a newscast over T.V. I think the director changed this so the invite can go more along with the time period of the movie. This could change how the viewers see it by making the invite less secret. Over a newscast anyone who was paying attention to the T.V. could of heard the invite. Another main difference in this scene would be Romeo and Juliet first seeing each other in the bathroom across a fish tank rather than across the ballroom in the play. This could take away from the romantic side of the two first seeing each other. In the play it seems Romeo and Juliet have more privacy when they first speak to each other. In the movie the two are getting on and off an elevator just not to be seen. This could add more suspense to the scene and make the viewers see the movie from a lofty viewpoint.

Briefly, the last difference between the film and play of Romeo and Juliet that is noticeable is the Prince's replacement by a Chief of Police as that is how new policies and governments

The play starts out with a narrator. As the characters come out you notice they are all dressed fancy, and the montagues are a different race then the capulets ( white and black). Romeo pulls up on a motorcycle, to talk to Mercutio. They appear to be talking in the forest. They used the dialect that was used in the original play, but dressed modern. The motorcycle is the only motor vehicle in the play. Lady capulet is depicted as a woman with a temper and that doesn't take any crap, in the others she is a pricy fancy woman. Lord capulet is depicted as a caring father whereas in the other two he seems more abusive, to both lady capulet and Juliet. It seems to have more scenes, where it shows Romeo and Juliet just talking on her balcony because she doesn't really have a room in the play. The only seen where she has a room is when she drinks that potion, and they think she is dead but it just shows her bed. When Romeo slays Tybalt with ease, it show Juliet talking about it to the nurse, and the nurse comforting her. Tybalt has no trouble killing Mercutio in the play, while Romeo has no trouble killing Tybalt. It shows Romeo purchasing the poison, but its is just an empty bottle in both films they contained liquid. The man Romeo purchased the poison from was reluctant, to sell it to him in the play. He said it didn’t feel right and that he could also get in trouble for it. When Romeo drinks the poison he dies before Juliet wakes up. She kills herself shortly after with

You also can relate to the characters better, because you know that they are going through some of the same things that you are in the same way that you are. Because it is set in a time that is closer to today, though, they decided to take certain liberties that takes away from the beauty of the original that I was talking about before. I certainly did not appreciate the use of guns instead of sword and daggers. Like I stated in the first question, the guns take away the suspense and the interesting part of an intense sword fight. Though it would have looked to weird to have men fighting with swords in modern day Verona, I still believe that it would have been much better to do it more like the book or the first movie. The sword fights are so intriguing, and even though i do not like blood, I still wanted to watch because of how interesting and intense they get. You want to know what happens in the end, and gun fights just do not have the same effect. I also was really disappointed in the way that they decided to carry out the last scene. Juliet happens to wake up before Romeo has taken the poison, and she clearly sees him taking the poison, but she does not do