Comparing Zeffirelli's Adaptation Of Romeo And Juliet

I have found from past schools in Orange County display a type of barrier between different social groups. Often it is frowned up for two people from different social groups to become close friends or go on a date. This theory is especially highlighted in our films today, two people stuck in the middle of the social standard. Just like Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and juliet show us what can happen when the barrier is destroyed. Through love bloodshed and violence the story of two people is told especially through two different variations of the story one directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the other by Baz Luhrmann each choose to portray the story differently. In Zeffirelli's adaptation of R+J he focuses on the verdurous, romantic, young forbidden love; where as Luhrmann's adaptation focuses on impulse, passionate, violent, spontaneous actions.
Zeffirelli's adaptation of R+J focuses on young naive love, Luhrmann's focuses violence and passion. Instead of holding a sword the first time we see Romeo in Zeffirelli's adaptation holding a flower. In Luhrmann's we see Romeo holding a cigarette. This little symbolic piece introduces the kind love that
The scene highlights the violence by constantly highlighting the guns and their wounds. The background also has dramatic opera action music which keeps the viewer at a constant rate of suspense. The final slaying of Tybalt ends in a slow motion moment where all you hear is the gun and the splash of the water that he falls into after he is shot. Zeffirelli takes this scene and focuses on angles. Angling of the camera is very important because it gets the viewer to view a certain character a certain way. He uses this technique so that we view Romeo as the underdog because he positions Tybalt upstage to Romeo. By thinking that Romeo is the underdog we fear for his life, making us fall in love with Romeo even