Baz Luhrmann

families in a city, who’s hate creates chaos for two teenagers falling in love despite the current family commotion. Romeo was wonderfully played by the amazing Leonardo DeCaprio and Juliet was beautifully portrayed by Claire Danes. It was directed by Baz Luhrmann who brought a very elaborate, fast paced, and eye popping version of the greatest love story of all time. The critics loved it and so did America because it brought in over 46.3 million dollars in box office profits. The next film, Tromeo and Juliet

Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduation. This is one of the first instances of something to “go viral” as it circulated through the early internet, primarily via email (Caro). Those same words made their way to Australian movie director Baz Luhrmann, who in a collaborative effort, put them to music in a song titled, “Everybody’s Free (to wear Sunscreen)” which made it all the way to number 45 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list in April of 1999 (Billboard). In her fanciful reflection of how she might

just wasted on the young" and it was published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single called "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen" released in 1999, accredited to Baz Luhrmann (which I highly recommend by the way!). "Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble

characters dress, interact, speak, and where they live are crucial parts to how movie goers become immersed in the film. Movie viewers often watch films to retreat from reality and go off to a place they have never been. The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann, allows viewers to experience the sensation of a summer in New York in 1922. As a film about decades past there is a particular emphasis on design and composition. One of the major focuses in The Great Gatsby is design. The element of design includes

A passion like no other, which attempts to blindside and empower within an individual. Love is a theme illustrated in The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann and Paper Towns, directed by Jake Schreier. This virtue had an enormous impact upon both of the films protagonist’s lives, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Quentin from Paper Towns, dwelling on misperceptions. Being standardised with a routine that was found to be disingenuous leaving anguish. The Great Gatsby and Paper Towns have similar

The visual text Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann is a story about two teenage couples who is stuck in between the feud of their families the Montagues and Capulets. The feud doesn’t let their relationship last which led to their death. The closing scene helped me understand me understand the theme love is the strongest weapon that no other weapons of life can overcome. An important aspect in the visual text is the forcefulness of love, the inevitability of fate and effect of violence on

experiences of Nick Carraway with his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. The book was adapted twice in movie form, the first in 1974 and the second in 2013. The 1974 adaptation was directed by Jack Clayton and the 2013 adaptation of the film was directed by Baz Luhrmann. This analysis will explore the adaptation of the novel The Great Gatsby, written by the F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby film. In particular, how the narrative has evolved through the adaptation process. The novel and the film adaptation

Nick Carraway, the storyteller of The Great Gatsby, has created a story to show The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor, and is here to tell us that he tells the story sometime after 1922 sometime, when the incidents that fill the book take place. As the story opens and shows the dramatic changes throughout the story line. Nick has just moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island, seeking his fortune as a bond salesman and to get his love from Daisy but

Moulin Rouge(2001) is an Oscar winning master piece from director Baz Luhrmann. It followed the success and recognition of Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Strictly Ballroom (1992). All three films were recognized for Luhrmann’s characteristic style. His films feature stylistic choices such as blue and red lighting, the use of rapid cuts and vibrant, period accurate costume. To analyze Luhrmann’s use of the four elements of the stylistic system, I will consider two specific scenes from the film, namely

Shakespeare in Love attempts to answer the hard question of how do we make the work of William Shakespeare seem relevant to the present day, much like Baz Luhrmann attempted to in his version William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. Shakespeare in Love collapses the past and present, continually negotiating the balance between then and now. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet dreams of being in love. A luxury to