While retaining the original script‚ Luhrman changed almost everything else; the music score‚ the setting‚ the visual style‚ costumes and the text type. As a result‚ he created an engaging style of entertainment for a young modern audience. In his appropriation of the original 16th century play‚ Luhrman explores and honours the play’s major themes; love‚ violence‚ fate versus free will and gender inequality. The biggest risk Luhrman took in adapting Romeo and Juliet to the screen was the use of Shakespearean
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Furthermore‚ considering the instability of culture and the historical events that reinforce this idea‚ the seemingly inevitable act of cultural appropriation can be constructive to society. What many do not realize is that appropriation allows people to learn more about another culture: “When we attack people for stepping outside their own cultural experiences‚ we hinder our ability to develop empathy and cross-cultural understanding” (Cathy‚ 2015). Cultural adoption brings new changes and possibilities
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IntroductionThe purpose of this thesis is to explore the field of literary adaptation within a literature/ film context with a view to answering the question of whether the critical stance taken against the adaptive process can withstand scrutiny in light of the operational practices at work within both industries. This introduction serves to provide an outline of this stance and identifies some of the most prominent reactions to adaptation. In order to provide some context and contrast‚ it is necessary
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After spending ten days in Haiti‚ I came to realize how spoiled and easy life is for me. Seeing the Haitian people’s daily work and living conditions really has had an impact on how I view various situations. Adaptation is a part of human nature. People in the United States have adapted to various diseases and their way of life‚ just like the people of Haiti adapt to different diseases and their ways of life. Disease and poverty still control Haiti and those who live in it‚ unlike those of us living
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Extension English Assignment – Appropriation texts of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’ “Appropriation has merit in exposing the influence of context in maintaining or changing cultural values” With the practice of taking older texts and transforming characters‚ plots‚ themes and situations‚ they are able to be translated into a more modern context in which younger generations are able to understand. But inevitably when an appropriation is viewed‚ we are aware that values
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the most known tragedies of all time. Beginning as a play written by William Shakespeare‚ later transformed into films in 1968 an again in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann. When Luhrmann created William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet he did this using modern adaptations yet still staying true to the original Elizabethan language. The character of Juliet played by Claire Danes began as a young innocent girl‚ and then later becoming someone so desperate for love she took her own life. Likewise‚ Romeo played by Leonardo
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2015/5/25 Difference Between Diffusion and Osmosis | Difference Between | Diffusion vs Osmosis Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects Search Miscellaneous Religion Islam Culture Politics Ideology Political Institutions Leaders Career & Education Fashion & Beauty Entertainment Sports Legal Geography Technology Software internet Hardware Protocols & Formats Communication Web Applications Industrial Household Equipments Career and Certifications Objects Gadgets SmartPhones Tablets Gaming Food
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now the world operates with little privacy between different parts of the world. The sharing‚ lovingly lending‚ and forcefully taking of cultures is ceaseless and boundless‚ and the area between healthy cultural appreciation and expression‚ and appropriation and abuse‚ is often greyed. Public mindfulness of cultural appropriation is beginning to be more common liberal society--that
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directors to persuade the audience to that of peace and serenity. The multiple techniques of lighting‚ sound and the recurring theme of numerous foreshadows were placed in scenes to employ fear and suspense‚ resulting in a bleak and unsettling atmosphere between the audience and the actors. The overall theme of George Orwell’s 1984 is totalitarianism‚ although not much cameras or telescreens are present within the set‚ both are represented by the openness of the set and the ever-present windows located at
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Do you know how different men are from women? Men and women have a lot of differences that scientists have studied for years. Some of the most important differences are: physical appearance‚ psychological differences‚ and social differences. Physical appearance is one of the most important differences between men and women. Both have different physical contours. Men build muscles more easily than women‚ and they have different body shapes. Men and women have unlike body structures. For example
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