Similarities And Differences Between Romeo And Juliet 1968 And 1968

The characters in the original are very different than in the modern version because there is a lot more characters. In the original there is Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, Mercutio, Tybalt, the Nurse, Friar Lawrence, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Lady Montague, Paris, Friar John, Prince Escalus, Balthasar, and a numerous amount of others. In the original the parents hate each other and do not want their kids to be together.

I will be studying the fight scene where Mercutio and Tybalt die, and comparing, the two film versions of the play, I will find differences and similarities as well as describing how each director / producer interprets and makes their version of the film. I will describe how eight different factors are present in each version of the film:

William Shakespeare’s famous romantic tragedy recounts the lives of two young fictional characters, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ who dare a brief love against their own opposing families, the Capulets and the Montagues. The two star-crossed lovers proceed to take their own lives, after believing their beloved has been condemned to death by fate. The play has been adapted into several different films, including the 1968 version directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and the 1996 version directed by Baz Luhrmann. Zeffirelli selected Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey to play the roles of Romeo and Juliet, while Luhrmann chose Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes to play the same roles respectively. The 1968 version was set in Verona Italy, in the 16th century, and

     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

Unlike Baz Luhrmann's movie, Carlo Carlei conveyed the tones of romance, passion and violence differently. Carlei changes the start of the original plot to a jousting tournament, in the end, Benvolio wins the golden ring for the Montagues. This then makes the Capulets to be quite annoyed and jealous as they start a fight with the Montagues. They then get caught by the Prince as he declares that they have started three civil brawls around fair Verona and whoever starts another between the families will be killed. The statement that the Prince made was not shown, as only one brawl was shown in the Carlo Carlei’s version.

The scene now takes another turn as Romeo puts aside all thought of peace, and becomes warlike. Benvolio tells him that Mercutio is dead, and Romeo decides on revenge in spite of his marriage to Juliet. “This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end” The audience is put on more suspense with this foreboding of more strife and death. Tybalt returns, perhaps to continue his quarrel with Romeo but strangely this time, alone and Romeo resolves on violence. “Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!” With the passion of this language and the dramatic tension once again onstage between Romeo and Tybalt, the scene approaches its climax. Tybalt declares that he will send Romeo’s soul after Mercutio’s. “Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.” The audience understand that either Tybalt or Romeo must die. Now we have the second sword fight in this scene and this is

In William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, the power of greed and pride between the Montagues and Capulets prompts the ending of tragedy. As their feud had been long-going, Romeo and Juliet had felt they needed to hide their relationship, further enticing the death of Romeo, Juliet, Paris, Tybalt, and Mercutio. In Act 1, Scene 5, Tybalt spots Romeo at the ball and instantly rushes over to fight, however, Capulet stops him,

Romeo and Juliet act three scene one happens on a street in Verona during a scorching hot day. When Benvolio and Mercutio spot the Capulets, Mercutio is provocative and wants to start a quarrel with Tybalt because Tybalt insulted Romeo. Tybalt and Mercutio draw their swords and start the brawl. To try and stop the brawl, Romeo steps between them, but it’s too late, Tybalt impales Mercutio under Romeo's arm and Mercutio dies. To get vengeance over Mercutio's death, Romeo attacks Tybalt and kills him. The rendition of Romeo and Juliet I’m going to discuss first is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and second is the 1968 film by Franco Zeffirelli.

The time period of the play and the time period of the movie are very different. In the movie, the prologue was on a T.V. screen and it was not in the play. Also in the movie, they used cars instead of horses to get around. In the movie, Romeo and his friends always smoked and would take drugs and they did not do that in the play. In the play, the different families owned castles and in the movie they own different businesses and buildings. They also had guns instead of swords in the movie. Also in the movie, they dressed more modern than they would have in the play.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Baz Lurhmann's Film Version Previously, in Act 2 Scene 6, we have seen Romeo and Juliet marrying one another thus binding the Montagues with the Capulets together. The marriage had to take place in secret, due to the war between the two families. We see at the beginning of Act 3 Scene 1, the behaviour between Romeo, Mercutio and Tybalt reflect the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets.

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love, it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.” Therefore, in Romeo and Juliet of 1996, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet, Juliet falls in love with her enemy and she did not know that he was her enemy. The screenplay for the 1996 movie was written by Craig Pearce, based on the play by William Shakespeare. The director, Baz Luhrmann, had scenes where they were expeditiously fast. Baz did this because they were fight scenes and this was effectively done to get to the scenes that need more time. The characters’ emotions are shown very well through the movie. A possible theme for Romeo and Juliet could be “don’t let your family get in the way of your love”.

The traditional play starts with Mercutio accusing Benvolio of being hot headed which is ironic after his Queen Map rant. The film adaptation begins with Mercutio firing a gun into the water which not only shows his anger but also displays a masculine side to Mercutio contradicting his camp side and developing the idea that he has a split personality similar to the metal Mercury.He also continues his disrespect towards the Capulets with the quote “By my heel, I care not.”which is disrespectful because it is the lowest part of the body, this is clarified for a 90’s teenage audience by Mercutio putting his feet on the table, using a patronising tone of voice and pretending not to notice that the Capulets have arrived as though they are insignificant. The turning point of the scene was when Tybalt insults Mercutio’s honour by suggesting that he “consorts” with Romeo. This is what fuels Mercutio’s anger which is shown with the use of short sentences and an exclamation mark. As Mercutio and Tybalt begin to taunt each other in the film, Mercutio naturally plays up for he crowd which highlights his love for attention, the music speeding up and rapidly changing camera angles are used to build tension. He also uses body language such as beating his chest which could be considered masculine for a 90’s audience. Romeo the turns down the duel against Tybalt. In Elizabethan times honour was extremely important and after it had been knocked the only way to regain it was with a duel. Therefore an Elizabethan audience would have seen Romeo backing down as weak and the play sounds as though Mercutio’s line “O calm, dishonourable, vile submission” is aimed at Romeo for his cowardice and that protecting Romeo’s honour is the reason for the fight. However Mercutio normally disagrees with social conventions so perhaps his real reason to fight is to save Romeo due to his love for him. This differs

"Romeo and Juliet" a play by William Shakespeare, starts off with a fight between the Montagues and Capulets. The Prince ends up coming and stops the fight. He declares that the next person to start a fight will be executed. Because Romeo is in love with Rosaline, him, Mercutio, and Benvolio decide to sneak into the Capulet party so Romeo can be with Rosaline. However, while Romeo is there, he ends up falling in love with Juliet.

While in the movie the theme was more about revenge between the two houses. In the play Romeo was depressed or at great bliss when thinking about Juliet and the struggles they had to face. Then in the movie Romeo did not show as many emotions towards Juliet and what they were going through. Revenge is shown in the movie when Tybalt saw Romeo at the Capulet party and he wanted to confront Romeo right then. Prince Capulet did not let Tybalt and that then forced him to go find Romeo and get revenge on his own. When Tybalt goes out to find Romeo he ends up killing Mercutio in revenge against Romeo for not accepting the fight. After Mercutio dies in Romeo’s arms, he drives away seeking for Tybalt. Romeo finds him and gets the best revenge of the movie by murdering

The 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet was a recreation of Shakespeare’s brilliant tragedy. Bringing authenticity into the movie by filming in Rome and using the melody and lyrics of What is a Youth repeatedly to describe the different emotions the characters endure. Overall, besides a few personal opinions over the choices of the characters, I have had a positive experience watching this movie because in my opinion it has the best setting, music and costumes above all other adaptions.