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    Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare which tells of a tragic story between two star crossed lovers. Both Luhrmann and Zeffirelli filmed movies of this play, giving life to Shakespeare’s words. Luhrmann’s movie of Romeo and Juliet is set in modern times of California while Zeffirelli’s movie is based on the 1500’s of Verona, Italy. Though Luhrmann’s version is great cinema with dramatic scenes and emotional actors, it did not do justice to the play. Zeffirelli’s movie was almost exactly

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    French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. With that being stated, the movie, Romeo & Juliet (1968) fell into the modern period. However, this review will summarize the movie, state how the movie relates to the Middle ages, and how one may perceive the movie compared to today’s lifestyle. Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party; however, the two come from families who strongly dislike one another. Romeo and Juliet positively

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    Romeo and Juliet Have you read the dramatic romance of Romeo and Juliet? This tells the story of two families.. where two families named the Capulets and the Montagues have so bad of a feud that when two teenagers kids fall in love from the opposite families, they have to keep their love away from their family 's knowledge and risk everything, including their lives for a chance at their happy ending. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, and the movie Romeo+Juliet, directed

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    William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," set in 16th century Verona, Italy shares differences with Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," set in modern day Verona Beach. These stories contain the same characters and conflict, however major and minor discrepancies are galore in the story lines of both formats of William Shakespeare's creation. Some major inconsistencies occur, such as Mercutio dying at a beach, portrayed as a hero, instead of being at a bar, looking like a fool, Friar Lawrence's

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    Juliet! Juliet! I'm coming Nurse. I will compare and contrast Romeo and Juliet the play by William Shakespeare and the movie by Baz Lohrmanns. The topics to be discussed the theme and wanted and loved. Since Romeo was daring because since he got banished from Verona he was brave to escape Mantua to go find Juliet. But, Romeo was a player. At first he was so in love with Rosaline and when he went to the Capulet’s party he saw Juliet and fell in l to Friar Lawrence because he was his counselor and

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    Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. While West Side Story mirrors Shakespeare’s sentiments on death in Romeo and Juliet, in its portrayal of Romeo, Paris, and Juliet differs in its depiction of Tony, Chino, and Maria which ultimately results in a new point of view of the storyline throughout the movie. To commence, one character element that is a direct comparison to Romeo and Juliet is how Romeo relates greatly to Tony in West Side Story. For example, Romeo falls madly in love with Juliet even though

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    people can conclude from the prologue that Romeo and Juliet will be pushed by their fate and their story will end in a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet are teens that fall in love at a party. Romeo is banished from Verona from killing Tybalt. Juliet and Friar Lawrence made a plan so she does not have to marry Paris. The plan does not work out because Romeo does not receive the news about the plan. At the end of the story, they both commit suicide. The movie and the play have many similarities and differences

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    Throughout many years, people have been trying to understand the philosophical meaning behind the words of William Shakespeare. One of Shakespeare's most sophisticated and well known piece is the Romantic and heartfelt story of Romeo and Juliet. Though most of Shakespeare's story is sometimes hard to understand, people have found ways to break up Shakespeare's story in order to make it more standardized to the way people understand it in this modern world. In order to achieve that goal, people of

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    In the “Romeo and Juliet” play and the Romeo + Juliet movie, there are a multitude of similarities and differences. “Romeo and Juliet” starts with the two star-crossed lovers meeting at a party. Their new obsession with each other leads them to get married. Romeo is exiled subsequent to killing his best friend’s murderer, Tybalt, who also happens to be Juliet’s cousin. Friar Lawrence conceives a plan to prevent Juliet from marrying Paris and reunite her with Romeo. It does not go as planned and the

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    Romeo and Juliet is an excellent play and movie although they are different in their own ways. There are major similarities and minor differences including deaths and characters. Most of the scenes were the same including the short scenes. In the movie and play, Act I and Act II are very similar to each other yet very contrasting. The first similarity between the play and the movie was that there are several fights. There are fights in both the play and movie but the fights are different

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