... diverse and completely imaginary modern city plagued by guns, gangs and rock "n" roll. By placing the tragedy in a modern city, it becomes instantly more accessible to current cinema goers because the plight of Romeo and Juliet is more easily understood in its modern, more relevant context. The modern day setting, however exotic, ... also brings a sense of reality to the film. The film also uses intertextuality to relate the story of Romeo and Juliet to "West Side Story" and to ... . The values of love, order, justice and loyalty have been conveyed in the film because these values exist...

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... using song and dance, elements of racism and nationalism, and a modern vernacular. Robbins called upon the musical talents of composer Leonard Bernstein and the words of Arthur Laurents for the script and book. The love story proved to have universal appeal throughout all artistic forms, as it had already been adjusted for opera and ballet. The contemporary adaptation of this timeless classic alters ... a cha-cha. Bernstein and Robbins translated Shakespeare's spoken word into modern dance techniques (Gravely 1). Along with the dance atmosphere, the discovery of the doomed love affair i...

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... in love with Juliet and the same for Juliet being in love with Romeo. After the party Romeo left his friends and snuck up to Juliet's balcony where they exchanged vows of love with each other and made arrangements to get married without their own family members knowing. The next day Romeo went to see ... two of them that afternoon in his cell, he replied by saying yes. That evening when Juliet and Romeo came to give the Friar their confessions he married them. Later on that day when Romeo went to tell Benvolio and Mercutio about the good news he found Tybalt already there talking and .....

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... rather than marry Paris. The friar then concocts an elaborate plan to stop the marriage to Paris and get Romeo and Juliet back together. Romeo receives no notice of this plan and because of accidents; mistimings and malevolent fate things turn out for the worst. Romeo and Juliet kill themselves and only in their deaths the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues is resolved. True love ... among the stars. The music used throughout the film can dramatically contribute to the mood trying to be achieved by the director. In Shakespearian times the play would have used modern music of th...

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... public order of Verona and the Prince has no alternative but to act decisively. Unbeknown to him, his action is aimed at thwarting the love of Romeo and Juliet. The danger now for Romeo in continuing to meet Juliet is increased because he has to avoid the authorities as well as the Capulets. COMPARING THE CHARACTERS The frame of mind and conversation between Mercutio and ... though it started in the 16th century. This is called manslaughter today. The film that is effective to me is Baz Lurhmanns Romeo and Juliet because it is a very imaginative and less boring towards Franco Zeferelli....

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... light/dark motif that runs throughout the play. Many scenes in Romeo and Juliet are set either late at night or early in the morning, and Shakespeare often uses the contrast between night and day to explore opposing alternatives in a given situation. Another famous balcony quote is when Juliet proclaimed, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt ... with him if he merely tells her that he loves her. Juliet's father, old Capulet, forbade Juliet to have any sort of relations with Romeo. Therefore in his attempt to destroy this love th...

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... in modern everyday life, even if we don't recognize it. Maybe we don't recognize it because we choose not to, or don't have faith like we used to, but the fact remains that fate controls what we do throughout all of our lives. A large part of the beliefs for both Romeo and Juliet involve ... fate. They believed in the stars, and that their actions weren't always their own. Romeo, for example, says, "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars...by some vile forfeit of untimely ... to one. Fate set up their love, their love already predestined, as well as their suicides, which they both fo...

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... lived in an aural society where they needed little visual source to understand. We live in a visual society where we have televisions and film visual impact is what appeals to a modern audience. Shakespeare's actors would have just been on a blank stage covered with a canopy. There would also probably been a balcony where musicians would play in the party scene but also probably ... . Although she is very practical she says ".. Be but sworn my love, and I"ll no longer be a Capulet". This tells the audience that Juliet is interested in Romeo. This is done so that the audience know that th...

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... to marry him and Juliet that day, hoping that the marriage will end the fighting between the two families. Scene 4---- Benvolio and Mercutio meet Romeo in the street. Romeo is his old self, sharp and high spirited. Juliet's nurse finds Romeo and he tells her that he and Juliet are going to get married that afternoon at Friar Laurence's. Scene 5---- Juliet can hardly wait for her nurse to come ... back from her meeting with Romeo ... her secretly before he leaves Verona. Scene 3---- When Friar Laurence tells Romeo that he has been banished instead of being killed, Romeo is desperate ove...

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... is at this moment that his adulation starts. His language becomes filled with religious reflections, and he compares Juliet's being to that of saintliness. In Act I Scene V, Shakespeare uses a sonnet for the first dialogue that Romeo and Juliet share; a sonnet has fourteen lies and ten syllables in each line. The rhyme scheme is structured ... early point in the play in the way that the sonnet is shared between both Romeo and Juliet, that the spell that has been cast over Romeo has been cast over Juliet as well. This sets the scene for what is to follow in the rest of the play, and that ...

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... . This in a way shows that the nurse doesn't want Juliet being thrown out of the Capulet house because she has been like a second mother to Juliet. She tells the nurse and Lady Capulet that she needs rest for the next day because that is the day that she will have to marry Paris. As the nurse and ... Lady Capulet thought it was a good enough excuse they left Juliet with no argument. This leads onto Juliet's soliloquy where she speaks ... everything. She then starts thinking, if the Friar purposely gave her a poison not to put her to sleep for 2 two days but to kill her so that the marria...

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... ? How do we know it was fate, their destiny that triggered these events? Coincidence caused the death of these two lovers. For this reason, Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. For coincidence to have caused the death of Romeo and Juliet it must have been evident in the events leading up to their deaths. These events include their meeting and falling in love ... and Tybalt. When he does, Tybalt strikes Mercuitio and he dies. Romeo feels he needs to avenge Merecuitio and kills Tybalt. "And for that offense immediately we do exile him hence," (Romeo and Juliet, III, II...

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... a violent end. "These violent delights have violent ends. Friar is also telling Romeo that the marriage is violent and dangerous. Romeo and Juliet might hope that the Montagues and Capulets would stop feuding with each other, due to their marriage. In act 3 scene 1, Tybalt is looking for Romeo, challenging him to a duel. The day is hot, trouble is in the air. Mercutio and Benvolio are talking ... with Romeo, until Tybalt comes in and challenges Romeo. He attacks Romeo, but Romeo doesn't fight so Mercutio ... jumps in to help Romeo. Tybalt ... ...

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... rich and noble people who are always causing a nuisance in the town. The conflict of the play was that Romeo and Juliet came from two families that have been in a feud for many years. Though they have snuck their love around their parents for many days, they soon found themselves being torn apart by the ever growing hate between the two families. The ... of the engagement, a masked ball is arranged. Romeo and his friends attend the celebration and there, Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love. The Friar Laurence secretly weds them the next day. Before the young lovers can settle their pl...

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... Mary. This contrasts with Juliet as when she is hit by "cupids arrow" she has a relationship with Romeo (forbidden fruit) against her fathers will. As a result of Romeos love for Rosaline he is unaware of day-to-day realities "is the day so young." this emphasises that Romeo is disheartened and feels very ... all that he cloth possens" it is not about love. Lady Capulet tells Juliet that women are "covers" objects to complete men's life's displaying that Lady Capulet has internalised the male value system of Verona. Juliet's love for Romeo does change her as she is no longer obedient as L...

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... beginning, yet his hasty decisions could lead the reader to believe he had ulterior motives. Due to the feud between the Montague and Capulet families, Romeo and Juliet desperately needed consultation after they discovered their forbidden love for each other. Luckily the Friar Lawrence was a holy and spiritual individual that these two central characters could turn to when they needed guidance and believed ... assisted the couple, they began to place more of their trust in him. The Friar, a member of a group of wise and generous priests, was trusted completely by Romeo and Juliet, and t...

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... 't want Paris marrying her yet. Juliet is very young, still "a stranger in the world", and not yet fourteen. He urges Paris to wait two more years before he thinks of marrying her, but Paris says, "Younger than she are happy mothers made". In the England of Shakespeare's time, the average age of women on their wedding day was between nineteen and twenty ... her maid art far more fair than she" Juliet is a "maid" of the moon. Romeo sees in her the promise of bright warm love, far more beautiful than the pale, chaste light of the moon. Romeo wants Juliet as a woman, not as distant object o...

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... , now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb". This prefigures that Juliet will find Romeo dead in a tomb. These two premonitions give a clear description towards the fate of Romeo and Juliet, and what is to come for them in the future. The power of fate is overtly shown through various events incorporated into Shakespeare's tragic ... Romeo and the feud for his fate, and Romeo unwillingly kills Tybalt in revenge. Romeo is then banished to Mantua. During these occurrences, Romeo was seeking to avoid a tragic outcome, however in the end fate brought tragedy to both Romeo and ...

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... those times to get married at such a young age. There was a ballroom dance at the Capulet mansion and that was where Romeo met his Juliet. The first meeting was exciting for them as they were young and inexperienced. Too Romeo, Juliet was a vision of beauty " for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night-. They touched hands, which was like a religious meeting of a pilgrim and a palmer ... times, as she was very opinionated and strong willed after meeting Romeo. She was disobeying her family by loving and being with an enemy, something she usually wouldn't of done. Romeo and Juliet decide...

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In Baz Luhrman's production of Romeo and Juliet many filming style techniques have been used. Luhrman has definitely used a modern style of filming but particular interpretation has been used in places; the costume, the props, the environment and the ... be paying attention after such a fast paced introduction. I know many people changed their minds; from that it was a boring play to an exciting and modern day film. The following are key examples of the specific techniques employed to create that impression: Sounds are a massive part of the overall film. There are four ... to the settings. Al...

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... because of this; everything should be in moderation, one should their head over their heart, and their reason over their passion. To begin with, Romeo and Juliet are blinded by their love for each other because of Cupid, whose, as Romeo states, "view is muffled still, " (1.1.176). They do not think they can live without each other, so they kill themselves to ease their ... pain. They have too much love for each other to make it through life alone. Cupid represents love, and excessive amounts of it were why Romeo and Juliet get married. Their marriage would have caused much controversy i...

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... by saying this, to take love into his own hands and to be decisive. Despite Romeo's great declaration of love for Roasline, his feelings are actually short lived, as shown the moment when he sees Juliet. Romeo is excited at first sight describing her as, "Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!". This language is in direct contrast to how he speaks of Rosaline ... "er saw true beauty till this night." With this speech Rosaline is now forgotten and Juliet becomes Romeo's focal point. Despite learning Juliet's identity as a Capulet, Romeo ignores the feud and commits himself to Juliet...

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... to answer the question: Why is Juliet so different? Juliet's strength is first shown when her and Romeo initially meet. Romeo tries to seduce Juliet but she is not taken in so easily. Romeo uses a variety of different metaphors to try and overwhelm Juliet, but she to Romeo's surprise answers back and momentarily leaves him speechless and lost for words. They kiss Juliet Have my lips the sin that they ... like so. This isn't the first time in the play that this has happened either as shortly before speaking to her father Juliet had spoken the same way to her mother about Romeo. Her mothe...

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... to this so knew they would work and be sucessful. I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. I think the last reason he may have used is sonnet is that when Shakespeare wrote this play (1600-1700) sonnets ... were a very popular form of poetry so people would have wanted to come and see his play. Just as the 1997 film "Romeo and Juliet" uses a news bulletin to present the prologue because modern ... in the end it is the parents who are the cause of their death. I think the last part of the line shows that R...

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... you all Will now deny to dance:? She that makes dainty, She'll I swear hath corns. Am I come nea ye now? Welcome getnlemen! I have seen the day That I have worn a visor and could tell A whispering tale in a fair ladies ear, Such as would please, 'tis gone 'tis gone, 'tis gone. You are ... deep pit of depression over one female Roselynee (when he spends all night outside then makes a false night in his bedroom during the day) and then falls head over heels for another. He seems to only judge by appearance instead of personality as well, maybe he should just learn there is more to a ' ......

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