“I told you so,” said the Shakespeare statue in Gnomeo and Juliet after a lawnmower crushed the main characters. He was referring to how the two lovers were going to die, but it turns out that they didn’t! That’s just one example of how different the setting, characters, and plot events are, in Disney and Rocket Pictures’ Gnomeo and Juliet compared to Shakespeare’s classic, Romeo and Juliet.
The setting in Gnomeo and Juliet is very different than the one in Romeo and Juliet. According to Romeo and Juliet, the prologue says “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” It is saying that the setting is in a town in Italy. But on the other hand, Gnomeo and Juliet is set in two gardens that are owned by Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague. Another setting
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In Romeo and Juliet, Father Capulet describes his love for his daughter by saying, “She is the hopeful lady of my heart.” However, in Gnomeo and Juliet, Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague aren’t the couple’s parents, Mr. Redbrick and Mrs. Blueberry are. Redbrick is Juliet’s father and Blueberry is Gnomeo’s mother. Another thing that is different is that we get to know one of Gnomeo’s parents unlike the play, where we never really got to see Romeo’s mother or father. One of the small character differences was that Tybalt had a sidekick. Tybalt’s sidekick was named Fawn and played the role similar to Tybalt’s gang in Romeo and Juliet. These examples show they are different because the main character’s parents play different roles. The Capulets and Montagues are the actual parents of Juliet and Romeo but in Gnomeo and Juliet, Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague are just the garden owners having a feud between themselves. Whatever the gnomes do to the garden, the owner thinks it was the other one. The director changed this to help fit in with the whole gnome theme, but also to put in some situational irony. The owners didn’t know that the gnomes could move and that the gnomes were the ones destroying the
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers who have to risk their lives in order to demonstrate their love and will to stay together, regardless the feud between their families. By the end, the death of Romeo and Juliet finally bring the reconciliation to these two families. It is fate that the two most shall-not meet people fall in love and it love that eventually won against hatred. Since then, there have been many different versions of Romeo and Juliet, whether it was for film, stage, musicals. These different recontextualised adaptions change the original play by many ways, some modernise the language, environment, props as well as changing the original characteristics of some characters. Out of all the different adaptions of Romeo and Juliet, two stood out the most. One was the Romeo and Juliet (1996) and directed by Baz Luhrmann and the other one was Romeo and Juliet Broadway (2013) play version,
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
A Comparison of the Two Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet I have been studying the prologue to 'Romeo and Juliet' written by the
Paramount aspect of the movie and the play, the theme, were the same, and the overall messages in both were the same. For example, one main message in the stories was that love conquers all. This was demonstrated in both the play and the film when Romeo and Juliet kept secretly meeting each other even though they knew it was against their families’ wishes. In one scene of both the movie and the play Romeo and Juliet even got married and died together so that even if they could not be together on earth they would be together in death.
If the Capulet parents were more involved in Juliet’s life, maybe the outcome of Romeo and Juliet would have been different in the end. Their parenting style affect Juliet and the play in general. Lord and Lady Capulet are both uninvolved parents in the play when it comes to raising their daughter, Juliet.
You can see from all I have written Romeo & Juliet is a play in which
In conclusion, Gnomeo/Romeo and Juliet were fairly alike among themselves. In the story Gnomeo/Romeo and Juliet, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s revile one another. Although the families hate one another, Gnomeo/Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. However, they were forced to sneak around to meet each other because of the tension between both families. The movie Gnomeo and Juliet, presents a similar idea of the story of Romeo and Juliet. In brief, while there are some notable differences between both versions of Shakespeare’s classic, it is without a doubt, that the essence of the story line remains the same; the tale of two star-crossed lovers.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two adolescents—Romeo and Juliet from two hostile families fall in love with each other. This prohibited love ultimately turns into a romantic tragedy, in which they commit suicide for each other. Both Franco Zeffirelli’s (1968) and Baz Lurhmann’s (1996) versions retained the dialogues written by William Shakespeare in their movies. However, these two movies are directed in their own unique ways, which have several distinctive differences.
Ever since William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was published in 1507, there have been multiple recreations of the famous play, some of which are better than others. Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet released in 2011, is just one of many recreations of Shakespeare’s play. Gnomeo and Juliet depicts the story of two star crossed lovers from feuding families that are forbidden to love. It is set in Mr. Capulet and Ms. Montague’s gardens. Gnomeo and Juliet is not a successful adaptation of the original play. The different plot ending and how Gnomeo and Juliet met is depicted differently in the movie than the original play. The differences in plot endings make a big difference in representation of the play.
The movie then continues with the camera focussed on two towers labelled ‘Montague’ and ‘Capulet’ throwing shade at the audience. Romeo had unrequited love for Rosaline, who is mentioned, but doesn’t appear in the movie or the original script. But those feelings are dead the second he sees Juliet. Although the young make some pretty irresponsible decisions, the movie deviates from the stereotype that the young are stupid, and the old are wise. For instance, THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF THE STORY – the feud between two families.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try and emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is done through the renewal of props and costumes, the reconstruction of the prologue and the upgrading of the setting, whilst preserving the original Shakespearean language. Out of the two, it is Luhrmann who targets Romeo & Juliet to a younger audience to a much larger extent than Zeffirelli.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try to emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is done through upgrading of the setting, the renewal of props and costumes, the use of water symbolism and the reconstruction of the prologue, whilst preserving the original Shakespearean language. Out of the two, it is Luhrmann who targets Romeo & Juliet to a younger audience to a much larger extent than Zeffirelli.
The movie adds a musical twist to the original Romeo and Juliet, which gives the story a lighter look than the original. Instead of bloody fights, the movie puts in dance and singing scenes. The characters are also different because some of them are in relationships, while others even completely change their roles. For example, Bernardo is Maria’s brother in the story, while in the original play Tybalt plays her cousin. The nurse is also not in a relationship with anyone, while Anita is in a relationship with Bernardo and that fact drastically changes the storyline.
Romeo and Juliet, a story of a tragic romance between two young lovers. And within the story you find that it is different from the book to the movie. While reading the book you notice some differences between it and the movie. While watching the movie you see one difference and it is that instead of swords like the book they have guns and they called them swords. They did this as a result of the movie is in a more modern time than the book. Another difference is when Mercutio is making Romeo go to the party. In the book he talks him into going to the party. In the movie Mercutio made him take a tablet or pill of some kind to make him go. Still the same as the other difference, still in a more modern era.
There are two neighbors with the same hobby is gardening, they are Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet. Mrs montague has a garden with a blue gnome and mr.capulet have a garden gnome with a red, when the garden was left by their owners in the garden gnomes that live like human beings. But the second life gnome is always involved in the conflict,