other authors and their stories. The screenplay writer of West Side Story‚ Ernest Lehman was inspired by the author of Romeo and Juliet‚ William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare inspired Ernest Lehman because of the obvious similarities in theme‚ plot and the characters of both of their stories. Inspiration can be the best way to jumpstart your own imagination and is especially helpful when it comes to the theme of a story. The themes of both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are very similar. The
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scenes from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is the balcony scene. In this scene Romeo goes to Juliet’s house and says beautiful things about her without her knowing. She is high above on a balcony and she doesn’t know he’s there. There she declares her love for him. Romeo reveals himself and they start talking about there love. Juliet proposes they get married. In 1968 a film of Romeo and Juliet was made and in 1961 a similar film of Romeo and Juliet was made‚ West Side Story. The 1968 film
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“Romeo and Juliet” Compared and Contrasted to “Westside Story” “Westside Story” and “Romeo and Juliet” are both inspiring stories about two star-crossed lovers whose love is forbidden because of hatred between their groups‚ which leads to inevitable death. These two stories have an unquestionably wide range of similarities and differences as far as scenes and the characters that make the scenes differ or resemble to each other. The first and last scenes of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Westside Story”
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of time. This is why the movies‚ Romeo and Juliet (1996) and West Side Story (1961) were so successful. Shakespeare’s play and the two movies modeled after it have many similarities and many differences‚ but one thing remains constant in all of them‚ They all use universal truths to relate to their audiences. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a timeless play that concentrates on many different human emotions and reactions. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story are alike in many ways‚ they were
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Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story We have recently been studying two different stories in our class. We read the first act of Romeo and Juliet and watched the movie West Side Story. I was surprised that I actually enjoyed both. Our assignment is to write a compare/contrast paper on what we have read so far in Romeo and Juliet and what we saw in the move West Side Story. I found that there are many things alike and many things different between the two. There were two very noticeable
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Scene connections to Romeo and Juliet Which 2 scenes in the film best connect this text to Romeo and Juliet * What ideas do they share * How has the director highlighted these connections Romeo and Juliet is the story of the relationship between the son and daughter of two families‚ which are enemies‚ the Montagues and the Capulets. Their families are against their plan to marry‚ and the story ends in the death of both lovers. In West Side Story‚ instead of families‚ there are two rival
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Crashing Down When two people are meant to be together‚ no time is too long” (Anonymous). Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and West Side Story by Arthur Laurents show the pure evils of acting extremely hastily and how it can change the outlook on the future. Romeo and Juliet are two young lovers who were taught to hate one another and who suffer deeply because of the consequences of fate. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were sure to be tragic as was hinted at early on throughout the play. Both
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Essay Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet’ and The West Side Story’ are both movies based on William Shakespeare’s play. They are very similar in many ways‚ but different in others. It is about two teens that fall in love and see each other without their families knowing‚ because their families have a feud against each other. I will be discussing the differences and similarities between‚ Romeo and Tony‚ Juliet and Maria and finally‚ the families and the Gangs‚ which are in the movies‚ Romeo & Juliet’
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Ernest Lehman’s West Side Story are similar in many ways; however‚ in those comparisons there are some minor differences. Aside from the similarities between Romeo and Tony or Juliet and Maria‚ there are many other likenesses such as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet and the fire escape scene in West Side Story. In Romeo and Juliet the scene starts off with Romeo listening to Juliet give her "What’s in a name?" speech‚ and similarly‚ in West Side Story the scene
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Beth Cooper Professor Barrett Introduction to Drama West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical’s plot is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York in the mid-1950s‚ the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks‚ two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation
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