... '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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... 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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... 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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... '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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... with any of his many works might later be really disappointed. This is where I pop into the conversation. I have only seen the movie Romeo and Juliet and observed Hamlet but yet to all my surprise it did not make me go wow that's the best I have seen ever. Depending on how ... also. As said that Shakespearean texts are blank I think it is great to add one with out ruining the text. It helped to understand the characters and themes of the production and also created a very unique mood with the audience. If lines stress that it is set in a different season ... treasure his favorite scene...

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