... Baz Luhrmann an Australian director truly has got talent. His Romeo and Juliet released in 1996 is a unique adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. The classic love story is set now in modern Verona beach stays true to the original text. The film really brings light to how fantastic Shakespeare's plays are and many would agree that it does him justice. With a ... star cast of Leonardo Di Caprio as Romeo and Clare Danes as Juliet the film is a true success. Key elements such as narrative, mise-en-scene, representations and soundtrack really do make it unforgettable. Love...

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... dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," (Shakespeare Prologue Lines 1-3) These are the opening words of William Shakespeare's ageless tale Romeo and Juliet. Over the years many people have proved the timeless relevance of Shakespeare's themes present in this particular play. The film industry in particular has produced numerous versions of Shakespeare's enduring ... classic. No matter how the play is interpreted, however, the themes of the play remain intact. Although Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, has been portrayed in numero...

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... play. Although some dialogue has been edited and other parts have been emphasized such as Mercutio's speech at Sycamore grove, the dialogue remains much the same. This shows how modern audiences value the traditional Shakespearean text. By maintaining the Shakespearean language, Luhrman has made a successful appropriation of "Romeo and Juliet" because he has captured the essence of ... the tragedy through the words of the original text. Baz Luhrman's version is a successful appropriation because it makes the play engaging and accessible to modern audiences. This is accomplished through ...

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How successful is Baz Luhrmann's film as an appropriation of Shakespeare's original text? Consider the differences between the different texts or Zeferelli's film, and discuss how the medium of film has been used to create a modern popular text. (Word limit: 800-1000 words) Romeo and Juliet is widely known as one of the artistic masterpieces of our time. Due to this the tragic love story has been ... adapted and remade several times. The original script was written for an audience ... found during the late 1500's and early 1600's. Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, however, was a...

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... , full of bawdy banter and light-hearted humour. This is how "Romeo and Juliet" - a dramatic exploration of love and death - begins. The opening scene or chapter of any piece of literature is of paramount importance - not only does it serve to fuel the audiences interest but it provides a useful prescience into the remainder of the text. In this instance, the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet does both. A rousing ... duel between the two rival families captures the audiences attention and carefully chosen techniques help to prepare the audience for the rest of the play. The mood in the o...

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... to start the fight. The use of movement in this scene is fast and furious as the action switches from person to person as they fire their guns, the camera zooms up to each of the main characters and then freezes as text is used to introduce each person, when the screen is un-freezed, ... the action goes back to being fast and furious again. This is very different compared to the calm, collective atmosphere of Zefferelli's opening ... the audience the seriousness of the rivalry, as this is the most important factor in the play because if the two families were not at war then Romeo and Jul...

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Romeo and Juliet Text Response Rome and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. It is a story about two lovers called Romeo and Juliet; whose lives end in a tragedy. There are many reasons why the tragedy occurred. The feud between the Capulet's and the Montague's is largely responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. However, there are a number of factors or characters that may be considered to be responsible. Some ... a Montague, which illustrates why the feud was the most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence's good intentions to make peace, and to use lov...

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... demonstrates that love was his first priority. Throughout the play, the impact of ideal love matures Romeo as well as Juliet throughout the play. Although the text does not suggest that Paris is younger than Romeo, prior to killing Paris, Romeo refers to him as a Ayouth@: AGood gentle youth, tempt not a desp=rate man@(5.3.59). Conversely, he calls himself a Aman@ as if the days with ... Juliet have put him through the emotions one would experience in an entire lifetime. The individuals possessed by >ideal= love are ... not the only ones who are affected by it. In Romeo and Juliet, Fria...

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... 's. Romeo and Juliet is a feast for the eyes and does a great job of engaging the audience with the story at all times through various cinematic techniques and tricks which make understanding Shakespeare fun, interesting, fresh and easy. Visually dynamic, and edited with a sense of urgency, most movie-goers will get caught up in the story and forget that they are listening to the Bard. It is Shakespeare's words and text ... are visually emotional subtitles throughout the movie directing the audience to understand and engage in the most famous love story in an entirely new way. One can ar...

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Love Conquers All Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been seen as the most tragic love story in history. But many people don't look past the text and read between the lines. This story is full of contrasts. Joy and sorrow, light and dark, youth and age, love and hate, life and death. Love is a dangerous emotion a lot like fire is to the elements. But even if fire burns everything down, the ... will always grow back stronger. To share the beauty of its trees with the world, no one losses, everything things repair themselves in different ways. This is similar to the Romeo and Juliet tragedy. Lo...

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... a little easier when it comes time to take the Romeo and Juliet final exam because this new adaptation makes the themes remarkably clear. If the movie fails in any respect, it's absence of some of Shakespeare's words. Music (although very well suited) sometimes obscures the actors' speech, and the lengthy text has been cut to almost two hours, eliminating some important ... scenes. Shakespeare movies usually have to undergo alterations to the text, because modern audiences are accustomed to two-hour feature films. But in this version of Romeo and Juliet, these aren't just cuts. This is ...

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... the most famous scenes in all of Shakespeare's plays is the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. The way that Luhrman portrays the balcony scene is very different from what is imagined by the readers. Juliet is not actually on her balcony when she is talking to Romeo. She came down and sat by the fountain. Luhrman cuts out much of the dialogue in this scene ... twenty-four hours you could be that close to someone). The placement of the characters in the pool has a symbolic meaning. Water can mean life and youth, but it can also be a sexual symbol. Both Romeo and Juliet are young, and full...

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... artificial' night, the word shows what his love for Rosaline was really like and how deep down it didn't mean anything to him. Romeo acts to hastily throughout the play and shouldn't have asked Juliet to marry him so suddenly. In this part of the play a lot of imagery is used but not in a good text. It talks about a lot of dark, black, no light ... and dull scenes, which in this play is portrayed to do with death and bad fate. I feel even though ... their deaths. Shakespeare I think; meant for his audience to interpret the happenings of his play by some higher power. Maybe it would be ...

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... humiliated. It's like an opening in a bubble-there's no such thing because the bubble will instantly pop. Romeo and Juliet challenges social norms through both Romeo and Juliet breaking gender boundaries. Through the theme of light and darkness, it can be shown that they cause an unbalance of life, which resulted in their deaths. In other words, the play suggests that one should not mess with the ... nobility. By abstaining from the fight, Mercutio throws himself into the fray, and dies. The death of his best friend angered Romeo, causing Romeo to slay Tybalt, which resulted in banishme...

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... the play are Romeo, Juliet, Nurse, Paris, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Friar Laurence, the Capulet parent's. The director of the film is chosen good actors to interpretation the character in the play. If the director is chosen the wrong actor the character in the play wont interpretation out, therefore the soul of the character wont come out. Original script: Shakespeare's ordinary text is cuts ... considerably in this film. This help the story more interesting for the audience as moves along as a good pace. Since the setting is in the modern American city, that few lines are changes int...

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... is imperative to modernize the prologue, in order for viewers to fully comprehend the film's plot. Any misperception would leave viewers confused, and not emotionally involved. He is able to accomplish this through the use of dialogue, written text, and visual images. In order to reach modern audiences, Luhrmann has to be inventive in his filmmaking techniques. Therefore, he integrates modern- ... day media language. By adding news media, and displaying selected pieces of text onscreen, he is able to intensify the romantic teen tragedy. He turns Shakespeare's original play into a distingu...

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... twelfth night as you please. In 1602 he wrote a good beginning Ends Well, Troilus and grown and Hamlet. In 1604 he wrote Othello and Measure for measure. In 1605 King Lear. In 1606 wrote Macbeth. In 1607 Antony and Cleopatra in 1608 and Cariolano. Undoubtedly the highlight was William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, this play is about two young men who fall in love but it has great ... that she was dead decides to take a bottle of poison without knowing that Juliet was still alive, when Juliet leaves the tomb realizes what he had done and decided to bury her beloved dagger and so this l...

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... 's Love Love is commonly used in dramatic plays, with much descriptive narration. In Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, love is described with passionate emotion. That is what makes this play such a well-known and respected play. Shakespeare uses metaphors, similes and oxymorons in order to describe love with great passion. Metaphors play an important aspect in Shakespeare's description of love. ... in understanding the literal translation of the text; although it may assist the reader in better understanding the overall message through more expansion of the given chara...

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... flesh tremble in their different greeting! I will withdraw but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet convert to bitt"rest gall". The marriage between Romeo and Juliet is the second event that affects Act 3 Scene 1 Romeo feels that as he is married to Juliet he should not hate the Capulets. The play has a lack of stage directions which means the director will have a lot of freedom ... to interpret the as he sees fit. Luhrmann does this by setting his play in modern Verona with gun battles and Hollywood actors, however zefirelli's version is very old and set in the time the text comes fr...

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... has been one of the most famous love stories for around 200 years. In 1997, Baz Luhrmann did a remake of Romeo and Juliet and even though it is based on the original version, it is still very different. In the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet, you see a news reporter on the TV, telling the viewers of two wealthy families living in Verona. After the news report ... again except by an unseen narrator. While the narrator is talking, flashes of the Montague's and Capulet's lives are quickly displayed on the screen. Using this and the dramatic sound effects, Baz Luhrmann almost immediately ...

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... 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 audiences are used to information being interpreted this way, Shakespeare used a sonnet ... that Verona is a place of beauty and prestige. However, the word fair also means equal, which is quite ironic, as it could be asking whether or not the argument between the two families is fair or not. At the end of the line there is a section of text in ...

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Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. The language, scenery, weapons, and modes of transportation have undergone changes over the years, and thus making the tragic love story a little more confusing to understand in a new generation. Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. The opening scene of the play is absolutely one of the most powerful scenes in b...

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... that fate is what we make of it, that we control it with our own actions. In his tragic play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare illustrates the clash between fate and free will through a character by the name of Mercutio. Mercutio is a comic character, depicts Philia, and he helps to advance the plot. Throughout the play, Mercutio is there to bring laughter to the reader or ... activities, and then becomes violent and angry and bitter. Romeo is even forced to call out, "Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!" (1.5.95), but the point of the speech is clearly to introduce a frenzied tone to the play. ...

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... houses that are "both alike in dignity" are (in West Side) actually two opposing street gangs known as the Sharks and the Jets. As previously stated, non-theatre-goers were influenced to this modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by way of film. Besides actual Shakespearean actors, it can be argued that Stephen Sondheim is one of the main driving forces that ... maintains the integrity of Shakespeare's works and keeps them modern and mainstream; and in some instancesactually improve them. Romeo and Juliet is a love story that expresses how powerful love can actually be. However, West Si...

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... the press. Anyone may write what he feels and reveal the truth. Banning certain books in schools means censorship. Books become prime targets for controversial issues in schools. How can people think teachers would allow such obscene and foul topics in their classrooms if only for educational purposes? How can reading works such as Romeo and Juliet encourage teen sex? The play highlights the ... beauty and sincerity of impulsive young love in a time where society deemed such happenings as normal. Even though To ... that will help guide and shape their lives. Students cannot exist in da...

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