Acosta 1 Gabriela Acosta Period 8 English I- Mrs. Hughes Romeo and Juliet Movies Comparison Essay The movie adaptations of Romeo and Juliet are immensely different‚ while conveying the main plot and maintaining the important parts. The settings were in two different sceneries and clothing styles. Classic version maintained the Shakespearian setting whereas the Modern version takes place in a Beach-like scenery‚ one could relate it to being a California scene. Although both kept the Shakespearian
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet‚ is a traditional adaptation of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet‚ with some variations. Baz Luhrmann directed the 1996 version‚ also known as the MTV Romeo † Juliet. This version is very modernized‚ but keeps the language intact with few changes. There are many differences between Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the Signet version of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo’s entire speech that begins “Alas that love‚ whose view is muffled still‚ Should
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The timeless tale of Romeo and Juliet has been told again and again; the similarities and differences between the films are endless. Two movies were made based on the classic love story‚ Romeo and Juliet. The first movie was made in 1968 and the second was a much more modern remake of the classic tale which was made in 1996. These movies told the romance in similar‚ but still in different ways. Both movies can be easily compared and differentiated because they were both alike and different at different
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Comparisons of Films From watching the older and more modern version of the killing of Mercutio and Tybalt there are obvious differences‚ as well as hidden ones. The comparison is between the Zeffirelli version and the more modern version. Watching these movies‚ paying close attention is important because it is not just the scenery and which characters are played by whom‚ but what the director was trying to portray in this scene. Both these versions were very different and it is obvious that
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Romeo and Juliet movie and text comparison Shakespeare’s famous tragic play Romeo and Juliet is set in an ancient city of Verona‚ Italy. Three hundreds fifty years later‚ Baz Luhrman directed the modern version of Romeo +Juliet‚which is set in Verona Beach California backdrop. Besides that‚ the course of events in Shakespeare’s play has a little different than movie. “Two households‚ both alike in dignity‚( in fair Verona‚ where we lay out scene)” (Act I‚ the prologue)‚ these few lines indicate
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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
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a cherished piece of literature that has been remade into movies many times throughout history. The 1968 version and the controversial 1996 version give different perspectives of Shakespeare’s famous play. While the 1968 classical version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet should be appreciated‚ the modern version portrays the complexity of love in a fast-paced society by using narrative and stylistic elements combined with energetic editing in an advanced
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What’s the Difference? Romeo and Juliet‚ the play by William Shakespeare‚ is a story about prohibited young love between the two characters‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ members of enemy houses‚ and it ends with the tragic death of both the lovers. The two movies that capture the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet are the Zefferelli verion which was mad in 1968 and the 1996 Lurhmann version. Both movies do fine in generating a visual of Romeo and Juliet in their own unique way. As Michael Anderegg states
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to would be Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. First‚ Juliet and I are very similar in numerous ways like fight for love‚ we are romantic‚ and very pretty. Second‚ we both are romantic and pretty like a model getting a photo taken of them‚ in multiple ways we are romantic and pretty. Last‚ Juliet and I are both very pretty and beautiful‚ in many ways. As can be seen‚ a character I am mostly similar to would have to be Juliet from a movie called Romeo and Juliet. First of all‚ Juliet and I have various
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Everyone loves a classic love story like Romeo and Juliet. The story of Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic about two star-crossed lovers of enemy houses. There are two movies that each take different approaches to this classic story of two forbidden lovers. The Zeffirelli version is more classic and was made in 1968. The Luhrmann version with Leonardo DiCaprio is a much more modern take of Romeo and Juliet and was made in 1996. Each movie can be easily compared because they are alike and different
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