...families will be Banished or executed. Tybalt Who is a Capulet, like to cause trouble and is often looking for fights with the Montague's. Romeo is walking along the colonnade thinking about his love for Rosalyn. By this you can already see that Romeo falls in love easily and that he is very emotional. His cousin Benvolio finds him and tells him that Roslyn does not care about his feelings and that she is no good for him. he tells him that she is not interested in Romeo. A servant comes to Romeo with a letter and asks if he will read it to him as most peasants could not read then and did not have an education. The letter is an invitation to a party at Lord Capulet’s house. Romeo and any other Montague should see it wise not to go because of the feud and that there might be trouble at the party if they do. Romeo and his friends gate crash the party with Macutio. Romeo sees Juliet and he instantly falls in love with her. Tybalt sees Romeo dancing with her and wants to start a fight, Lord Capulet stops him because he does not want to cause a show and make them look bad, he doesn't think that Romeo will come to any harm. Romeo dances with Juliet and they both kiss, they believe they are in love. Juliet's nurse starts to call her and it is then that Romeo realizes that she is Lord Capulet's daughter, then the others call Romeo and...
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...William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” is an exciting play that many have gone to watch before. In fact, it has become so famous that when the technology of capturing moving pictures became commercial, the play has been incorporated into many films throughout the century. Films such as Franco Zeffirelli's “Romeo and Juliet” follow the traditional route of attempting to create a carbon copy of the play, but instead is in film. Many films of the play attempt to stick extremely close to the text written by Shakespeare, through both dialogue and setting. There is one movie, however, that is different from all the other movies, is Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet,” set in a modern 1990s city named Verona. The atmosphere Baz Luhrmann...
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...ith a gun instead of a sword and in the movie Mercutio was killed with a piece of glass instead of a knife. In the movie Mercutio came Romeo a love pill instead of nothing. In the movie Romeo shot Juliet’s cousin instead of not shooting Juliet’s cousin. In the movie Romeo and Juliet slept with each other in her house. In the movie Romeo and Juliet swam in her pool late at night. The movie was made in the time period of 1996. In the movie Romeo doesn’t encounter anyone at the crypt and Romeo doesn’t kill Paris. In the movie Juliet watches Romeo die from the poison painfully. In the movie they used handguns as weapons. In the movie Romeo sneaks in Juliet’s house everyday at night time. In the movie Samson dies in the brawl he was shot. In the...
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...Romeo and Juliet: The Movie I believe that this play/movie is based off of a conflict theory. The reason I say this is because both families here are trying to gain power and also trying to be the dominant family. As I go into detail on this movie it will explain the conflict theory. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is fully summarized in Shakespeare's prologue: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood make civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers who take their life" (Universal, 1996). This movie is a masterful culmination of the director's phenomenal ability to create a powerful introduction, to select a realistic, but surreal setting, to choose realistic actors, and to enact specialized dramatic effects. Sitting in the theater, watching this movie for the first time, I heard static break in to interrupt the beginning credits. A newscaster, sounding serious, came on the screen in a special report. I sat up to pay attention. She was reporting a tragedy that had recently happened in some place called Verona. I was pulled in thinking it to be a true special report. Ah-hah!! It was a trick. A trick to get people to do just what I did. Trained are we to listen to newscasts, our life-line in present day society, where we receive a lot of our information. A trick, and...
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...the Luhrmann movies are both very different versions of Romeo and Juliet. The Zeffirelli is a 1968 version that is more old school it shows more background information as if we were really there during the time it happened and it has a lot more specific details. On the other hand, the Luhrmann movie is from 1997 and it’s more of a modern-day version it doesn’t really capture the main background points. In the meanwhile, I will explain how the two versions of the death scene are highly different from each other based off of both scenes. First of all, both directors filmed their movies in separate locations. In the Zeffirelli movie, the whole movie was filmed in Italy and in the Luhrmann movie it was filmed in two different locations from Miami to Mexico City. While the Zeffirelli death scene caused the audience to feel sorrow and sad because of the details and the mood they set the scene in. The first version looked more realistic than the Luhrmann movie because it was dark, dusty, it had no lights and it was full of dead bodies. The...
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...Luhrmann's 1996 film version of “Romeo + Juliet” may seem completely different at a glance when compared to Franco Zeffirelli's interpretation, the two can actually be surprisingly similar if you look at it carefully.Both film versions generally have the same dialogue, both films allude the idea that both families are wealthy and have the same plot, and the characters are somewhat similar, but the difference between the 2 films are that Baz Luhrmann’s version is directed towards a young, teenage audience whose possible intent of this version of the movie is that Baz Luhrmann tries to get the kids interested in Romeo and Juliet, meanwhile Zeffirelli’s version is directed towards an audience who are more likely to be Shakespeare enthusiasts. In both movies, the dialogue is generally similar, as they are both true to the Shakespearian old english way of speaking, even though Baz Luhrmann’s version is modernized, and out of context, might not make sense to some viewers that they are speaking in old english, when it takes place in modern times. However, in Baz Luhrmann’s version, in some parts of the movie, they ever-so slightly modify the original lines from the play in order to slightly simplify it for the intended audience. Both movies show the same plot in different ways. Both movies have the feud between 2 wealthy families, in both versions, they both start with the fight between the Capulets and the Montagues, then we meet a Romeo in despair due to Rosaline choosing...
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...Romeo and Juliet Compare to Contrast Shakespeare, a playwright who wrote a play by the name of Romeo and Juliet, along with movie producers who brought the play to a screen, helped the story of a tragedy be widely known. Moreover, the story of Romeo and Juliet is of forbidden teen lovers whose families are in a rivalry, so much so, that the cause of the two teenagers’ suicides is a direct and indirect result of the feud. However, though; both the literature and movies of this play explain the same story, they have more than just similarities, for an individual may also note the differences between the original creation and adapted creations. Therefore, by noting these distinct disparities and parallels of the literature and a singular cinema...
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...Romeo ditches his fellow friends and rushes off to see Juliet. The scene starts with him lurking below Juliet’s balcony in the dark of night. Juliet sees Romeo and when she begins to speak, he is enchanted by her beauty and immediately confesses his love to her. During their conversation they agree to marry each other the next afternoon. The original script and the movie version differ on many aspects. While the script can limit the reader from certain understandings, it also provides the possibilities for the reader to make their own conclusions and reasonings. The Movie also has it’s limitations and possibilities mostly attributed to a time limit. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet there are limits as well as possibilities. The first limit would be the language barrier. The language is very difficult to interpret and understand. The reason for this is that english has changed greatly so the modern day reader is not able to understand Shakespeare’s way of writing. I often find myself rushing to sparknotes or texting a friend when reading by...
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...Romeo And Juliet : Not Acceptable for Ninth Grade Curriculum. Romance could be tragic but it's how lovers cooperate with it. Romeo and Juliet showed that love is tragic especially when situations are being rushed. In the novel of Romeo And Juliet it clearly had showed based on the situations that was being occurred that those couples were a bad example of romance. Since they showed a bad example of being a role model it shouldn't be teacher in a ninth grade curriculum. In this essay i will be covering three different reasons to why Romeo And Juliet shouldn't be taught in a ninth grade curriculum, due to the fact of immatureness students are still which connects to them idolizing actions and taking it as a lesson. First of all, income students in high school are still not matured enough to understand serious situations that's happening in the story. Based and according to my experience in watching the movie i clearly saw the situation that was being occurred that those situations of action are just a silly part of those student’s part of life . As in reality i have actually seen how my other classmates could be so immature when we were watching the movie about Romeo And Juliet. Further on yet there are still students who doesnt consider maturity yet in their age....
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...Romeo and Juliet was a romantic but also a tragic play written by William Shakespeare in 1595 and later published in 1597.The plot of Romeo and Juliet is that two lovers of long rivaling family history tragically die and reunite their rivaling families.There were three different movies made in 1968, 1996, and 2014 to illustrate the similarities and differences of the reader’s vision and Shakespeare’s. The 1968 movie of Romeo and Juliet was shot In the Italian city of Verona with the same perspective, wardrobe, and weaponry(swords) of the time that Shakespeare had written the original play. Although the script was the same in the 1996 movie the clothing and weaponry(guns) was completely different than the original but fit with the setting that was in California. The 2014 version of Shakespeare’s play was also a play but it was the most modernized out of the two. This Broadway play shot in NYC with chains, along with swords as weapons. The wardrobe consisted of the wearing of leather jackets and motorcycles as transportation. Even with the three different interpretations of Romeo and Juliet there are things that all of them had in common.The first thing that they have in common is the language. The...
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...because in both the play and the movie both Romeo and Juliet made thrilling moves for the desperation of their love. In both art forms we see that Romeo is trying to get to Juliet after he heard the news that she was dead, and Romeo was on a mission to see her wife. In the movie when Romeo arrives at the church, there is a guard standing guard the door, but you can see the desperation on Romeos face and the way he acts towards the guard. He tackles him and puts a gun to his head threatening to kill him if he doesn’t let Romeo into the church to see Juliet. This here is an example why...
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...Luhrmann's 1996 film version of “Romeo + Juliet” may seem completely different at a glance when compared to Franco Zeffirelli's interpretation, the two can actually be surprisingly similar if you look at it carefully.Both film versions generally have the same dialogue, both films allude the idea that both families are wealthy and have the same plot, and the characters are somewhat similar, but the difference between the 2 films are that Baz Luhrmann’s version is directed towards a young, teenage audience whose possible intent of this version of the movie is that Baz Luhrmann tries to get the kids interested in Romeo and Juliet, meanwhile Zeffirelli’s version is directed towards an audience who are more likely to be Shakespeare enthusiasts. In both movies, the dialogue is generally similar, as they are both true to the Shakespearian old english way of speaking, even though Baz Luhrmann’s version is modernized, and out of context, might not make sense to some viewers that they are speaking in old english, when it takes place in modern times. However, in Baz Luhrmann’s version, in some parts of the movie, they ever-so slightly modify the original lines from the play in order to slightly simplify it for the intended audience. Both movies show the same plot in different ways. Both movies have the feud between 2 wealthy families, in both versions, they both start with the fight between the Capulets and the Montagues, then we meet a Romeo in despair due to Rosaline choosing...
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...The movie of Antoinette and François is a tragedy and has many elements of one. These elements are the fact that the main character is brought to a disastrous end just after the figure out their tragic flaw, it is a big event that affects many people, and that has drama. François Archambault is the major main character in this story. He is what you may say the perfect son, but he has a major flaw. He sees something he wants, he has to get it no matter the cost. François is brought to a tragic end towards the ending of the movie. After he finds out Alexandre killed Antoinette, he kills her then throws himself of the Eiffel Tower. Right as François is falling to his death he realizes his tragic flaw, he was selfish. In Romeo and Juliet Romeo kills himself when he sees Juliet dead he kills himself by drinking poison. Like François, Romeo realizes his tragic flaw, he made rash decisions without thinking. These character both realized their flaw right before they died The deaths of Antoinette Vadeboncoeur, Antoinette Archambault, and François Archambault were very serious events that affected many people. The death of Antoinette was very hard on Barthelemy Vadeboncoeur because to Barthelemy, Antoinette was her baby. After this Barthelemy left France, this caused her parents to never paint again. That caused many art shows to run out of business. Antoinette’s death rippled into to the death of Alexandre. In a rage François stabs Alexandre in the back after finding out that...
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...Romeo and Juliet Paper Imagine this; a Shakespeare movie, set in a modern day, run-down city. The city seems to have absolutely no shortage of gangs and mobs that are running the streets. Hotrod cars along with pistols and assault rifles make their presence ever so evident. With a wrong slip of the tongue, gun fire erupts in the streets of Verona. This was the context for one of my favorite movies, Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann back in 1996. William Shakespeare has written poetry and play-scripts that will continue to inspire people for centuries to come. Whether it be on a stage in your local high school or in the Broadway/Hollywood spot light on the big screen. William Shakespeare is known as possibly the greatest writer of the English language and deservingly so. Unfortunately Shakespeare’s plays have been subject to change and scrutiny throughout the years. When the play was first being performed the representations were different than they are today as males played both parts of Romeo & Juliet. The plays representation was changed when women were finally allowed on stage after some changes to the culture and society. Even Hollywood filmmakers have done a remake of Romeo & Juliet in which the movie isn’t even set in old English times but rather in modern day. William Shakespeare’s play Romeo & Juliet has remained the same as its message transcends time, yet its representation has changed as English society has changed. The play Romeo & Juliet...
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...The image of teen rebellion has been portrayed in multiple movies, literature, and music. This prevalent theme was around in 1595 when Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet and in the 1978 film Grease. Teen rebellion is still being used in numerous literature and art forms today. This is a prevalent concept throughout movies, literature, as well as music because it appeals to all audiences. When comparing an iconic, top merchandising movie from the 20th century to a play written in the 16th century, the first thought that may come up is, “How different could these two be?” However, the iconic movie Grease and the play written by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, are more comparable than they seem. One of the easiest comparisons that can be made...
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