Romeo And Juliet Comparison

Comparison of Films Related to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

The two movies, Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann 1996) and Gnomeo and Juliet (Asbury 2011)

have many differences. The most obvious difference is that the Luhrmann film has human actors

and Asbury’s film is animated. The most obvious similarity is both films are spin offs or versions

of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In being versions of Shakespeare’s well known work, the

films have major similarities in plot And title characters, and yet major differences in conflict,

minor characters, and the endings. Both film Directors makes choices that bring the overall ideas

or message of Shakespeare’s play to modern Audiences. This essay will focus on the
Which is very similar to the original

Romeo and Juliet where the family’s stop feuding once their children had died.

Violence

In Romeo and Juliet there is a lot of violence between the two family’s, the Montagues and the

Capulets. Both of the family’s had tragics loses in their families through the violence between the

Family’s. Mercutio a Montague was stabbed and killed by Tybalt a Capulet and Tybalt was killed

by Romeo, who stabbed him as revenge for Mercutio’s death. There is also a lot of killing with

guns And knives in the Baz Lurhman version. The red hat gnomes and blue hat gnomes are

feuding and theViolence is between Tybalt, Benny and Gnomeo in the fighting scene. Tybalt

goes after Benny and takes The shovel in his hand and slices the top off of Benny’s pointed hat,

Gnomeo gets mad and him and Tybalt fight which leads to Tybalt flying off his lawn