Romeo and Juliet is a renowned play of the prestigious writer Shakespeare which has received a lot of praise and appreciation. The way Shakespeare describes the characters through their speech makes him immortal. He has the ability to build the characters strongly with whom the audience could relate. He even invented his own rhyme scheme and designed good plots with timeless stories. He could write about any situation which a person normally encounters and introduced new words which are used till date. Romeo and Juliet was a classic love story of forbidden love. The power in the story is incredible where the two lovers loved each other unconditionally and sacrificed their lives in an indelible manner. Romeo and Juliet play has never been so popular among the youngsters because of the strange and difficult language used by Shakespeare for describing the play. This dissatisfaction was an inspiration to Film and Television world and many directors since 1908 to till date has filmed this play in different ways. As per the internet movie base, there were 24 movies which were based directly on the play. There are more than 23 spin offs and 34 movies which are ballets where some of them have an original script as well. In total, there are 57 movies, but when it comes to movies that use Shakespeare’s text and are available on DVD then the count is decreased to 8 . In this essay we will discuss about the 1996 film version of Romeo and Juliet which addressed the new young generation starring Claire Danes as Juliet and Leonardo Di Caprio as Romeo. We will discuss whether the 1996 film version update the Shakespeare’s play or distort it and whether the film helped the audience to connect with the play or did it change the play beyond recognit...
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... because Luhrmann created the same message what Shakespeare did with his Language. This was important because modern audience cannot relate with Shakespeare’s language. The way he transformed Shakespeare’s words in images was incredible and it recalled the same emotions, but as far as the text is concerned, the film is still farthest from the play.
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Context has greatly influenced how Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in the 1500’s to how Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet was produced in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann with a more modern intention.
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,
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Romeo and Juliet - Movie vs. Book & nbsp; Often times people say that William Shakespeare was and still is a legend. They are correct. It is amazing how Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet was written. centuries ago can be better than Franco Zefferelli's movie production of Romeo. and Juliet, which had much better technology to work with only decades ago. Although the movie appeared better, it left out some major parts. The play had better mood and plot details which made it much more dramatic and by far a better presentation of the. & nbsp; One major difference between the play and the movie occurs in mood. An example of this is the marriage scene. In the marriage scene of the play, Romeo and Juliet is very serious. The reader can tell this by the way the two speak. Romeo says that the Holy Words the Friar speaks can make something without an equal (Act II, Scene 6, Line 4).
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Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo and Juliet is compelling when communicating the main ideas of the play by providing the audience with a modern translation of the play using the motifs in the film which correlate to the play.
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Romeo and Juliet presents an ongoing feud between the Montague and Capulet families whose children meet and fall in love. Markedly, the meeting scene depicting love at first sight continues to be praised by today’s critics. Romeo and Juliet then receive the label of star-crossed lovers whose tragic demise is written in the stars. In fact, Shakespeare 's work is well received and its numerous adaptations have made it one of his most enduring and notorious stories. The cinematic world brings to the screens a disastrous approach by Baz Luhrmann to do the play justice. A glance at Baz Luhrmann’s productions allows audiences to assume he delivers movies which are unlike those of any other filmmaker today, or perhaps ever. Therefore, blending a delicate
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The classic play Romeo and Juliet by the famous playwright William Shakespeare is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time and has captured and inspired readers everywhere. Regardless of the fact that it was written in the 1500’s, it is still being performed and extolled today. There is a multitude of reasons for such continuance of the play. First of all, its everlasting themes of love and hate enable people to deeply relate to the story. Secondly, its memorable characters deeply imprint on the minds of readers. And lastly, above all, is its magnificent language which many writers today regard in awe. These three elements make the acclaimed play, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most timeless stories of our lives.
...amining the masterpiece that is Hamlet, it becomes clear that Shakespeare was a successful playwright because he understood his audience and knew how to connect with them through his work. Even four hundred years after Shakespeare, this is still undeniably a crucial quality in anyone who is required to interact with an audience. Hence, much can be learned from Hamlet and from Shakespeare’s other works of art; the context of his plays may no longer resonate in today’s world, but the methods he used to engage and target the audience are timeless guidelines.
Thirdly, Brian Johnson honors Baz Luhrmann 's version of Romeo and Juliet as "just the kind of movie Shakespeare might make if he is around today." In Maclean 's interview with Baz Luhrmann on his directorial accomplishment in William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, he states: "What people forget, "begin Luhrmann, "is that Shakespeare is a relentless entertainer. When he plays the Elizabethan stage, he is basically dealing with an audience of 3,000 drunk punters who were selling pigs and geese in the stalls. He plays with everyone. . . . And his style is to have stand-up comedy one moment, a song and then the highest tragedy right next to it. He is a rambunctious, sexy, violent, entertaining storyteller, and we have tried to be all these things" (qtd. Johnson). Elaborate on how this contributes to the relatability of the
The movie “Shakespeare in Love” shows the business process of theater, along with Shakespeare’s struggles in his career and love life. Shakespeare in Love is a fictional account of the life that inspired the play Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the movie there are scenes, which you can relate to modern times comical irony devious behavior manipulation and how everything does not matter in the case of love. The story is perfect and ties together all the parts of the actual play and what may have really happened to the life of Shakespeare. The writers produced an imaginative romantic comedy in the style of Shakespeare that is very believable. They bring the viewer along for a fictitious account of what may have motivated Shakespeare to write one of the greatest plays of all times. This film captures the coarseness and bawdiness of the period as well as its soaring poetry. It places Shakespeare’s world in a modern context and makes it accessible, without diminishing the impact of his words.
Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task, and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative, and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text, written by William Shakespeare, and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines, conversation or even entire scenes to better suit that particular director’s needs.
William Shakespeare has provided some of the most brilliant plays to ever be performed on the stage. He is also the author of numerous sonnets and poems, but he is best known for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Juliet. In this essay I would like to discuss the play and movie, "Romeo and Juliet", and also the movie, Shakespeare in Love.