The Similarities Between The Characters Of Romeo And Juliet

__Luhrmann keeps the characters of Romeo and Juliet mostly the same, keeping Romeo's sensitive and impulsive personality, along with Juliet's naïve and willing-to-do-anything-to-have-what-her-heart-desires

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.

William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, tells the story of the tragic love between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The play has been reinterpreted throughout time and Baz Luhrmann’s film version, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, uses a modern setting to tell the tale. Luhrmann’s cinematic understanding reinforces the key themes of love, fate and hate as he explores Shakespeare’s famous play.

While in Zeffirelli’s version the setting plays little to no role in the story, it is used as a tool for the characters as well as to convey emotion in in Luhrmann’s version. For example Tybalt falls on and shatters a sheet of glass while fighting Mercutio, and uses a shard of this glass to stab Mercutio under Romeo’s arm. Also while Romeo is fighting Tybalt it is raining to convey a sense of grimness in the scene. As well as the better use of setting the actors also give a better portrayal of their characters in Luhrmann’s version, for example after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Romeo, is crying and yelling, cursing Tybalt, while in the Zeffirelli version the actor playing Romeo seems as if the barely cares that Mercutio is dead.

One such scene was the infamous balcony scene. Zeferelli stuck to the classical interpretation, while Luhrmann did not. In Zeferelli’s version Juliet was on the balcony outside her bedroom calling rhetorically, "Romeo, Romeo where fore art thou Romeo?" Romeo appears and climbs up the balcony, and they share a couple of small kisses before he departs. However, in Luhrmanns version of the play, events occurred slightly differently. Juliet is walking by the pool, when Romeo startles her and they both fall in the pool. Their conversation then takes place in the pool. In between getting interrupted by a nosy security guard they share several passionate kisses.

“William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet”, as portrayed in Luhrmann’s 1997 film, reveals that the cause of love will always lead to the consequence of death. Luhrmann focuses on highlighting this connection through the usage of props, costumes, and symbols, the foreshadowing of Romeo’s and Juliet’s fate, and Romeo’s compassion for his friends and family throughout the film. These aspects of the film emphasize the connection of love and death and explore the harsh realities and truths relating to this connection.

Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet has been reimagined many times across different mediums. One interpretation that stands out among the rest is Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film of the same name. The most shocking and powerful difference between Luhrmann’s work and other films or stage productions of this piece, is the movie’s setting. Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is set in the modern city of Verona Beach, New York, ruled by two powerful business families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Themes, language, and ideas remain the same, while places, props, and wardrobes are updated to the twentieth century. This compelling change helps emphasize the violent, fast-paced, and chaotic society of the play, which comes to precipitate the tragic demise of the two main characters.

When Romeo goes to the Capulet’s tomb to see Juliet and was amazed how beautiful her wife that she do not look like she was dead and when Juliet soon wake up Romeo already drink the potion, she saw him dead and look for Romeo’s gun and shoot herself. What this shows is that this is the part where I develop my decision to the movie because the actors delivered the line so perfect and touched my soul that made me cry. I’m impressed with Luhrmann’s courage to make a movie of one of the most Famous plays of all time. Obviously, with a great director like Baz Luhrmann retelling a play of Romeo and Juliet is a perfect

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well-known stories of all time and perhaps the most famous play ever. As one might expect, the play has been made into a movie many times. The 1968 version directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the 1996 version directed by Baz Luhrmann are two of the most popular films. The older version attempts to create an authentic representation of the play, while the 1996 version places a modern twist on the story. At first glance, the movies are completely different, but upon a deeper look, there are several similarities between the two. This is best demonstrated in the balcony scene.

Romeo is showing his passion by proving he is willing to die just to be able to see Juliet. This shows that he really loves her because he would die for her. The author uses other characters’ point of view to show Romeo’s passionate and

Zeffirelli 1968 film version shows the emotion of the film through the lighting, sound, and the camera shots. Zeffirelli 1968 version the lighting changes throughout the whole film. For example when Mercutio dies the lighting dims, and everyone gets very quiet to show the effect of the love and friendship they have for Mercutio. The sound both diegetic and nondiegetic Zeffirelli used is also very different from the play. He uses diegetic as another part of the scene when Mercutio dies. There is rain and thunder going on that shows the effect of how much pain this is going to put everyone through after his death. The rain is for the tears and the thunder represents the cries from the people of Verona. He uses non-diegetic when Romeo is confessing his true love for Juliet to Tybalt. The music is showing the care her has for her and how much he will do for her. The music play slow and soft. Zeffirelli 1996 version uses many of different camera shots also. He uses a close-up on the pistol Romeo used to kill Tybalt with. That shows the effect of the weapon that was used to kill the cousin of Juliet. Lastly, Zeffirelli uses a medium shot when the capulets arrive to show the fear that was going on in some of the Montague’s faces because they knew something bad was about to go

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

Famous stories such as Romeo and Juliet and along the lines of Pyramus and Thisbe is where both tales talk about teenage lovers wanting to be together no matter what the penalty. The love between both couples was strong enough that they would be willing to die for one another. In spite of the fact that both stories have a tragic ending, these stories have their similarities and differences. A vast part that shows throughout both the stories is that they have no communication and misunderstandings.

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” (R&J 1.1.181) The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet has shown the readers the bitterness along with the passionate love. The messages which Shakespeare tried to bring to the readers made the play be a timeless classic for tragedy. It gives people similar but slightly unlike understandings from the particular point of views. The different movie versions and paintings take inspiration from the original play, but at the same time, they have their own interpretation to emphasize. From the last scene of the play as a whole, they all want to tell people that the impatience and rush will bring illusion on what people really feel, that urgency and lack of communication may make the people who are involved get hurt. More sadly, the most innocent person always gets hurt the most.

The theme that youth causes individuals to part in naive actions is developed through the use of the literary elements characterization and foreshadowing. First, the theme is developed by the literary element of characterization. The play says, “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (2.2.144). The characterization of both Juliet and Romeo is immature; additionally, the immaturity of these two characters at their youthful age causes them to take part in immature actions, advancing the theme. Furthermore, the literary element of foreshadowing establishes the theme.