... adaptation. There are several scenes in which Luhrmann incorporates water as a means to show the innocence, love, and passion of Romeo and Juliet. Luhrmann's use of visual imagery and symbolism is just one way he is able to conform Shakespeare's original work for modern audiences. Luhrmann chooses to modernize the costumes in his adaptation, in order to appeal ... the words have resonance. He speaks as if they really are his words and that's something you don't always get in a Shakesperean performance," ("Production Notes: Romeo and Juliet"). Luhrmann's adaptation successfully represent...

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... found during the 16th century. In order to make the play more accessible to the modern audience; Baz Luhrmann had to alter a considerable amount of the 'traditional' version of Romeo and Juliet. He produced Shakespeare's play as an appropriation, which meant that he moved the story four centuries into the future, adapting the key plot ideas in such a way as to remain faithful to ... attention a lot better then what the older version would have been able to do. Another problem that was successfully overcome by Luhrmann's production was the fact that Juliet was a thirteen-year-old girl wh...

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Essay question: Baz Luhrmann's visually appealing and confronting film successfully modernises Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Baz Luhrmann's visually appealing and confronting film successfully modernises Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Through the effective use of colour, lighting and camera angles, the atmosphere is intensified and the audience is transported into the action. Luhrmann presents social decay as the main catalyst of the tragedy, deliberately exaggerating the violence and hatred permeating Verona to challenge us to critically ... to make the ultimate sacrifice for each other. ...

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