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    such a large array of different peoples. Each adaptation of the play chooses to focus on different aspects of the play in order to draw audience attention to certain points or hidden themes with the filmmakers believe are most important. Director Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 adaptation of Hamlet stars Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, and Helena Bonham Carter. More than any other aspect of the Shakespeare play, Zeffirelli's version of the story

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    romeo and juliet, it's been directed by two different directors. The first one was directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 this film is set in the 1800 they use the same costume and dialogue as in the 1500. On the other hand the Baz luhrmann production is a 1996 american urban film, it's a modern and violent but at same it's a romantic and tragedy. The film is aimed at young audience where as the zeffirelli verison is aimed at adults, but the dialogue they use is the same. The opening of the Baz luhrmann

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    and movies have based off of this then directors have remade it into their own visions. Two films that we have seen were different interpretations of this play one being by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann 1997. In the case of interping and showing what Shakespeare would have wanted to see I think Franco Zeffirelli had shown it better. He showed what the characters were truly like and how they lived. Franco’s set was during the renaissance period in the city of Verona, while Baz Luhrmann

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    himself? If you didn’t well it’s time you do. Franco Zeffirelli is both an Italian producer and director. Zeffirelli was born February 12, 1923 in Florence, Italy. Baz Luhrmann, another producer and director, also produced a movie of “Romeo and Juliet”. Luhrmann’s version took place in modern time, when the Zeffirelli version was closer to the plot of the book. This is why the Zeffirelli does an exceptional job in retelling the tragedy. First, the Zeffirelli version is better because of the costumes

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    tough relationship. This great piece of literature is reproduced into two differing versions of movies and a live stage play that has captured the essence in their unique styles. Among all three, the 1968 film of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, prominently captures the essence of the breathtaking moment of Romeo and Juliet’s first contact and gives off audience a great sense of romance. Zeffirelli’s film best fits the traditional story line and isn’t excessive

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    portrayed in many different forms, as modern interpretations of the timeless classic. One well known conversion is a film, created by the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli in 1968, which remains largely true to the original text written by William Shakespeare, however does make some alterations based on his own perception of the original text. Zeffirelli attempts to divine the surroundings that William Shakespeare may have wished his audience to believe this scene had been set in, and then to demonstrate

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    time it is listened, the names Romeo and Juliet are synonymous with adoration. Each extraordinary story enraptures a crowd of people by the way it is advised to them. Two men, Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann, recounted the tale of "Romeo and Juliet" through their eyes, with two totally diverse results. Franco Zeffirelli communicated his elucidation in the 1967 rendition of the film, offering life to these characters in a noteworthy movie. His motion picture turned into the position of these characters;

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    music in a static manner, which conveys a feeling of ignoring the seriousness of the scene, whereas the Zeffirelli version changes the music and lighting with the emotion of the scene to effectively convey Juliet’s concerns. In the 1996 Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, the use of music to convey Juliet's uncertainty of marriage is less effective than the use of music in the 1968 Zeffirelli version. In Baz Luhrmann’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet tells Romeo, “O, wear

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    Luhrmann and Franco Zeffirelli, of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet have similarities and differences. In Zeffirelli’s version the montagues and capulets were easy to tell apart by the color of their cloths and hats. In Luhrmann version you can also tell the montagues and capulets apart, but not by the color of their cloths but by the color of their cars. Both versions are also similar because they have the same family feud that has been going on for several of years. To conclude, Zeffirelli and Luhrmann

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    Timeless Interpretations For A Timeless Play William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, has been put into two different yet similar interpretations by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann in 1997. Though their interpretations are based off the same play, which is reason for many similarities within them, they tend to part ways quite often throughout their ways of recreating Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann’s takes on Romeo and Juliet contain numerous

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