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    Romeo & Juliet – Text vs. movie The tragedy, “Romeo and Juliet” was originally a play created by William Shakespeare, one of many world famous plays by the same. This play has been converted into its intended style many times in the past, the earliest version in 1968 was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, the latest film in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann. The latter is quite modern and only occassionally uses the words of Shakespeare. On the contrary, the older version was very traditional, and almost completely

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    The Romeo and Juliet movie does many things to change the time of the piece. Many of the original item have been replaced by newer ones such as how the swords have been replaced with guns and horses with cars. These changes will most likely cause the viewer to connect more with the characters. As the viewer becomes more connected with the characters they will start to become more immersed in the film and are more likely to enjoy the film more. When people like a film the film is more likely

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    that Zeffirelli did a more refined job at creating a performance which closely relates to the story. Overall, I would have to say that Luhrmann did an excellent job at his version, which barely outshines Zeffirelli. In Luhrmann’s 1996 version of Romeo + Juliet, we could pick out the differences between the performance and the story, and it was easier to understand what was happening. You could tell who was who, and the actors did an excellent job at playing their parts, making

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    While I was watching Romeo and Juliet I observed many differences compared to the story. The movie takes place in a Modern day city of Verona. Romeo and his boys(Mercutio and Benvoliv )start the first scene of the movie driving in a big yellow jeep like vehicle down the road and stop at a gas station where they meet the Tybalt and his Capulet friends. The rival families begin to have a shootout until Benvolio gets injured and few of the Capulets drive away .Benvolio had dragged himself since he

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    between the two households.Paris was less flirty Juliet in the movie than in the play. Romeo was just stuck on Juliet’s face because of the love felt for her. Juliet was less afraid of killing herself that when the Friar try to stop her, she put the gun on him and told him to find another way for her to be with Romeo. Some of the Scenes never happened in this version of the play. Paris and Romeo never fought, and paris died. Romeo got to see Juliet with her eyes open looking down at him before he

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    Romeo & Juliet is a classic play written by William Shakespeare, the play tells the story of a young Romeo and Juliet, and their tale of inseparable love set Verona Italy. Recently however, i saw the movie; and would like to give my opinion on it. The film produced by paramount pictures shows the two stories very similarly, almost every aspect of the book is featured in the movie; from the language, to the sometimes disturbing dialog. The story takes place in Verona, Italy; an ancient feud between

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    play someone comes out and says the prologue but in the movie, the prologue is played on a TV screen. This shows that this is something big because not only is it on a TV screen, it’s being said on the news. When something is on the news, it’s usually this big thing that happened. So playing it on a TV is showing something big is going to happen. The maker of this movie probably put it on a TV screen because the time frame their setting this movie in, that would most likely be where people would hear

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    from the beginning of time and will most likely carry on until the end. Everyone has their own love, and their of definition of what love actually means. Probably the most well known love stories of all time in the play from the 15th century, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare tells the tale of young love and fatal misfortune. With the same message the musical from the 50’s, West Side Story directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise carries out a similar story of young love and tragedy. Although

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    Lizzy Baginski English Composition 2 Mr. Spera March 10, 2015 Romeo and Juliet Research Paper The movie Romeo and Juliet is a modern classic film that took place in 1996. Overall this is a timeless story that everyone should go and watch. This movie has an intriguing plot line that tells the story of two feuding families, The Montagues and The Capulets, and how the children of these two different families fall in love. The two children overcome various obstacles such as hiding their chemistry from

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    William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet has resulted in multiple interpretations of it. Some variations include Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, Gnomeo & Juliet, West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, and Warm Bodies. The best portrayal of the balcony scene is from Gnomeo & Juliet. In this children's movie, it’s theme is accurate to the original Romeo and Juliet. In the movie, Gnomeo talks about not leaving Juliet, even though there is a risk of being caught. Also, Juliet talks about if

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