I believe that Baz Luhrmann has created a very effective prologue and version of Act 1 Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ using visual images and landmarks along with the language to aid the audience in understanding the story. Using the media throughout‚ Luhrmann makes the situations easier for the audience to grasp‚ and in turn‚ relate to. The film begins with the camera zooming in on a television. The prologue is spoken by a black female news reporter. Using a coloured female reporter
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Baz Luhrmann’s film representation of Romeo and Juliet‚ as opposed to Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‚ differentiates the context‚ values and ideas about love. The famous Capulet Feast scene is contextualised from the original Elizabethan context into a contemporary context expressing the transformative nature of love. Baz Luhrmann effectively uses the medium of film‚ transforming the original Shakespearean context of Act I‚ Scene 5 and situates it into a modern context regardless of different
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world‚ Romeo+Juliet makes the medieval classic - Romeo and Juliet understandable to a modern audience. Directed by Baz Luhrmann‚ the modern masterpiece applies impressive cinematography to harness both medieval and modern civilisations. Many aspects‚ such as the; settings‚ props‚ background symbolism and ways of communication allow for the modern viewer to grasp the storyline‚ despite many unusual adaptations included from medieval times. The entwinement of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet
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Discuss the appropriation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Romeo+Juliet’ by Baz Luhrmann Texts and ideas from texts are appropriated and transformed into other text forms and other compositions in a different context. An appropriation is a text that is appropriated or taken over by another composer and presented in a new way. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a well-known high culture text that is a tragedy about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families
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Romeo and Juliet act in 5 scene 3 Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare around 1594. The play Romeo and Juliet is about two start crossed lovers who were born into a world with an ‘ancient grudge’. This automatically leads to Romeo and Juliet’s death. This sorrowful play was performed in Globe Theatre as there was large number of people who entirely wanted to watch this interesting play immediately. According to the play it contains a strong violent‚ and conflict‚ however Shakespeare
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Mercutio is one of the most unique characters in Baz Luhrmann’s movie "Romeo & Juliet". His language is always powerful and imaginative. He represents many different things in the play and holds an important role. Mercutio is Romeo’s friend. He is neither Montague‚ nor Capulet. Therefore‚ he has not been born into a feud and really has no side. However‚ his bond with Romeo does make him associated with the Montagues. In this essay I will describe the complex character of Mercutio and how he influences
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What do we learn about Juliet’s relationship with her father from Act 3 Scene 5? Within this essay I will be analysing the relationship between Juliet and Capulet. In the Elizabethan era women were treated less than men because it was the patriarchal society and this means that men are in charge. This is relevant to the question because an Elizabethan audience will be expecting a relationship like this from Juliet and Capulet because it’s the patriarchal society. An Elizabethan
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Shakespeare’s The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is an important text written about how love and hate sit along side each other and how if these two ideas are taken to the extreme it can ultimately be fatal. In 1999 Baz Luhrmann made a cinematic adaption to the play the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet into the film Romeo + Juliet. In order for Baz Luhrmann to make his film appealing to his marketed audience he needed to appropriate it to fit the modern society we live in today. This text has been adapted
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet presents us with an array of timeless values that are depicted through Baz Luhrmann’s filmic adaptation of the text. The main contrast between Baz Luhrmann’s film and the original text is that the film context takes place in a modernised society much like ours today‚ carrying the same notions that are present within the original text into a society relevant to ours. The Concept of family is a key moral in both Baz Luhrmann’s and Shakespeare’s texts that is intertwined
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In the opening scene of the modern adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet"‚ the qualities of the feuding families: The Montagues and The Capulets are successfully exposed to the audience by the use of presentational devices. The director‚ Baz Luhrmann‚ has paid deliberate attention to these areas‚ which successfully portray the rival family member’s temperaments. The use of different lighting‚ colour‚ music‚ sound effects‚ costume and make up are applied to represent the different families to show the distinction
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