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    Movies are fun and enjoyable. Movies can teleport you to strange planets‚ new cities‚ and new time periods. Books are like movies in the same way. Instead of watching the imagination in front of you‚ you can make it up by yourself. Plays are like a mixture of both. Plays are like watching a movie but instead of watching a rehearsed action the actor gets to express themselves in what is most enjoyable to them. Because of technology in the fourteenth and the fifteenth century‚ plays where the movies

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    play of Romeo and Juliet can be so much better than its Movie production. Although the movie production had better technology it left out so many major parts. The play on the other hand had set a better mood‚ plot and details which made it more interesting and dramatic and therefore a better presentation. The play is set in a fictional city called Verona where two families live. These two families have been having a feud for generations. One major difference between the play

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    Every person who has gone through high school probably understand and knows Romeo and Juliet. This piece of seemingly common knowledge is referenced in many movies‚ books‚ and paintings throughout time. Often though‚ much of these references change parts of the classic story to show a different meaning or attract a different audience. The common part of these different artistic interpretations is that the role of characterization exists. Understanding these characters is done through details

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    to you‚ it could be completely different to somebody else. Everybody’s idea of love is different because everybody experiences love differently. Romeo and Juliet thought that love was being completely infatuated with each other and unfortunately they lost their lives over a feeling that would have gone away. Fours days‚ that’s how long Romeo and Juliet knew each other. This entire story took place in a span of four days‚ from the moment they met to the moment they killed themselves was only four

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    In the book of Romeo and Juliet you picture what the characters will look like. The movie shows their point of view of the characters. In the movie it shows the Montagues having a surfers characteristics. They wore a lot of beach shirts with palm trees on them. As we were reading the book I pictured them not as fancy as the Capulets but more casual type of clothing. I visioned Benvolio looking younger than Romeo and Mercutio from how the book described Benvolio. In the movie Benvolio looked a little

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    Repeating the Past Romeo and Juliet tells the story of forbidden love between two children of feuding families‚ whose long standing grudge and violent fighting divide the Verona Beach during 1996-1595. By Declan Reibel Romeo and Juliet is a story that has been portrayed in many ways by many people in many styles. The most recent and modern adaptation is the version by Baz Luhrmann‚ made in 1996. It follows the original of Shakespeare’s 1595 play‚ but the modern take is designed to appeal

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    The movie itself is very much different from the book. The story was also changed with some of the plot. The movie and the book are both still following the same story line. Along with the same ending. This is what I have noticed between the movie and the book. Number one is that the old man was cruel to the young man. Unlike in the book where it says and I quote “The old man had never wronged me”. That was huge difference. This change also gave him a different reason to kill the old man. That was

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    Romeo and Juliet - Zeffirelli and Luhrmann The two main film interpretations of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" are Zeffirelli’s‚ made in 1968‚ and Luhrmann’s‚ made in 1997. Although they use the same original script written by Shakespeare‚ these two films are very different. Zeffirelli’s is set in the 16th century‚ at the time when the screenplay would have first been written whereas Luhrmann has set his film in modern time but still using the Shakespearian language. The most popular and well-known

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    The Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions of William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ are similar in several ways. One way that they’re similar is at the beginning of Act I‚ scene i‚ Samson and Gregory are at the public place in Verona are talking. When they see the servants to the Montague’s walk by the Capulets servants‚ one of them bite their thumb at them. Another thing that is similar is when they draw their swords in the Zeffirelli version. In the Luhrmann version‚ they have guns

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    In spite of the two stories’ differences‚ there are also many similarities that they share that are just as important‚ but not as numerous. Both stories are told of teenage‚ star-crossed lovers whose forbidden love is the product of prejudice‚ who were forced to make decisions about adult situations. Meanwhile‚ the adults in the stories were not making very good decisions themselves; the nurse and Friar Lawrence from Romeo and Juliet‚ instead of trying to dissuade the young lovers from their whirlwind

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