DING DING DING DING! FIGHT! Two competitors are ready to fight over which film better represents Shakespeare’s main intensions. The two step into the battle box. What were Shakespeare’s main themes and intentions? Shakespeare’s main intentions of Romeo and Juliet was to show his world famous tragedies, romance, grievance and struggles. Zefferelli’s film of Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Luhrmann’s film of Romeo and Juliet (1996) represents those intensions but in different fashion and in different mediums. Zefferelli’s movie is aimed to be an interpretation of what happened in the late 16th century. Evidently, Luhrmann’s is to be a modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It is aimed for our generation. Which movie is a going to prevail and be crowned …show more content…
A fine example of where Luhrmann enhanced the scene and made it more dramatic is the death scene of Romeo and Juliet. While Juliet was asleep and Romeo believed that Juliet was dead, Luhrmann plotted the story where Juliet will witness the death of Romeo. This makes the devastating accident into a more tragic and depressing incident. This adds a bigger effect on the audience. In Zefferelli’s movie, the actors do not seem to be feeling the true emotions they are supposed to feel. This does not create an emotional connection with the audience, so the audience wouldn’t feel the same emotions the actor would. In Zefferelli’s movie the actors did not seem to be in tune with their character and their personality. For example, when Mercutio was dying from the stab he has gotten from Tybalt, it seemed very fake and unbelievable. This caused audience members not to feel sad for Mercutio and not feel the emotions Shakespeare intended the audience to feel. The main reason why this is important is that the audience members will not be attached to the movie and not pay attention to what the main intentions of the movie is for. On the other hand, Luhrmann’s actors were in tune with their character and their personality. An example is when Romeo cried when Mercutio died in front of Romeo, it made most viewers feel sorry for Romeo and Mercutio himself. This created an emotional …show more content…
Like stated before Montagues and Capulets can be perceived as two rival gangs. To go in more depth, we can look at the Montagues and Capulets like Bloods and Crips. They are two polar opposite gangs that fuel each other’s hatred. In the streets of South Central Los Angeles, the two rival gangs called Bloods and Crips are on a long term mission to kill each other. It is a coincidence is that no one truly knows why the two are in a feud. It has just been like this for a long time and it has turned into a lifestyle. They kill each other as a sport and a way of life. We can understand the feud because of Luhrmann making the movie modern and making the two royal families as gangs. Since Luhrmann has changed the characters of Capulet and Montague, we can understand the feud between the two families. How does this teach Shakespeare’s intentions? Shakespeare talks about struggles and grievances against each other. He also tells us the possible outcomes that could occur if a conflict is not resolved. Like Luhrmann’s example, these two gangs have struggles and grievances against each other and we can only relate to this because they are gangs. With the rise of gang violence going up each and every year, it is more common to know the affects and death rates gang violence has rather than a feud between two royal
Comparison Between Act 3 Scene 1 in Franco Zeferelli's Romeo and Juliet and in Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet
using a logical pattern or sequence the film simply flows and does not jump from scene to scene. The objective of Zefferelli I believe was to bring Shakespeare's script to life, to help people. understand the moral and storyline better. On the other hand I believe Luhrmans objectives were far different to Zefferellis, I feel Luhrman was somewhat touched by the storyline. inspired or found it worthwhile, therefore decided to make a blockbuster, entertaining film from it.
The feud between the Montagues and Capulets- The loss of Lord Capulet and Lord Montague’s children bring the two households together. Romeo and Juliet’s death helped their parents realize how wrong their feud was and bond over the commemoration of their children. For example, Lord Montague want to build a statue of Juliet, so everyone can remember her, and Lord Capulet wants to build a statue of Rome beside Juliet. This project helps bring the families together, and set aside their
To begin, in the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare makes a point in emphasizing the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. The feud shows how they are all just living in the moment and not thinking about how this feud could affect others living presently and also in the future. They are not thinking rationally but instead are stuck on the fact that they both think they are better than one another. This makes them think they can not talk to one another or be nice but instead just pretend they don't exist. In the future, they may actually
Paramount aspect of the movie and the play, the theme, were the same, and the overall messages in both were the same. For example, one main message in the stories was that love conquers all. This was demonstrated in both the play and the film when Romeo and Juliet kept secretly meeting each other even though they knew it was against their families’ wishes. In one scene of both the movie and the play Romeo and Juliet even got married and died together so that even if they could not be together on earth they would be together in death. Another message you learn from watching the movie and the play was that fighting solves nothing. In the play, when the two feuding families, the Montague’s and the Caplets, find their children dead they resolve their differences and agree to build a gold statue of Romeo and Juliet made out of gold after they state that their fighting only brought suffering. In the movie, although the families didn’t make up, you can infer that it was if the families and not been fighting that Romeo and Juliet would not have killed themselves, because they would not have to meet in secret and have Friar Lawrence devise a complicated plan so they could be together without their parents knowledge .
From the very beginning of the story, Shakespeare asserts us how much hate the two family have for each other. In the opening scene in Verona, the two servant of different families, the Montagues and Capulets, start a fight between each other. Talking to Gregory, Sampson announce how he “will bite [his] thumb at [the Montague’s servant]” (1.1.44-5). This tells the reader that because the Montagues and Capulets dislike each other, so will anyone close to them. The quote shows that when someone is a close friend to someone, the friend will hold the same grudge as a way to show their loyalty to their friends. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague decide to resolve their conflict my beginning a sword fight in the street of Verona. Power by
Firstly, the Capulets and Montagues are at odds with each other. Members of each house and servants break into a sword fight, clashing with each other. Sampson says "Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow." (Act 1, Scene 1, Line 60). The feuding between the two families motivates Sampson to challenge the Capulets. Another example of how the two houses despise each other is what Romeo and his friends have to do to get into the Capulet feast. So they will not be recognized, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio wear comic masks to hide their faces. Mercutio says, "Give me a case to put my visage in" (Act 1, Scene 4, Line 29). They do not want to be recognized because of the hatred between the two houses. Also, Romeo and Juliet are not supposed to be in love: "My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late! / Prodigious birth of love it is to me, / That I must love a loathed enemy." says Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 137-140). They are not supposed to love each other because it just so happens that each of their houses despise each other. It is unfortunate for Romeo and Juliet that their two families are against each other, because this means that they are not supposed to be married.
...e tragic celebration of young, forbidden love told by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, has been tailored for many motion picture adaptations. The most famous of these adaptations are Franco Zeffirelli’s version and Baz Lurhmann’s film produced in 1996. These two films applied Shakespeare’s most well-known work as a basis for their motion pictures. Both films had similarities, but the differences were much more apparent. Ever since William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been debuted, it has and forever will be an artistic influence for playwrights, directors, and other artists.
A Comparison of the Interpretations of Two Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet Having studied the openings of two film versions, the two directors Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann, show they interpret the play differently because of the way they see different meanings in them. By interpreting the play differently, it also means the audience pick up a different meaning. Every image seen in the beginning decides whether the audience should continue with watching the film. But what makes a film so engaging?
	A major dispute is going on between the Capulets and the Montagues. These two households, "both alike in dignity," (1.Prologue.1) have been feuding for so long that they even forget the reason they are feuding. Romeo and Juliet, "a pair of star-crossed lovers who take their life," (1.Prologue.6) are results of how tragedy can be caused when the rage of past generations carries over to a younger generation. Tybalt is also an example of the theme. At Capulet's party, he walks up to Lord Capulet and says "Tis he, that villain Romeo" (1.5.67). Tybalt learns this rage toward Romeo and all the other Montagues through past generations.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a tragic love story about two young lovers who are forced to be estranged as a result of their feuding families. The play is about their struggle to contravene fate and create a future together. As such, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood would try to emulate Shakespeare’s masterpiece. This had been done before in many films. Prominent among them were, Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” and Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” Both films stay true to the themes of Shakespeare’s original play. However, the modernised Luhrmann film not only maintains the essence of Shakespeare’s writings, Luhrmann makes it relevant to a teenage audience. This is done through upgrading of the setting, the renewal of props and costumes, the use of water symbolism and the reconstruction of the prologue, whilst preserving the original Shakespearean language. Out of the two, it is Luhrmann who targets Romeo & Juliet to a younger audience to a much larger extent than Zeffirelli.
Baz Lurhmann’s creation of the film Romeo and Juliet has shown that today’s audience can still understand and appreciate William Shakespeare. Typically, when a modern audience think of Shakespeare, they immediately think it will be boring, yet Lurhmann successfully rejuvenates Romeo and Juliet. In his film production he uses a number of different cinematic techniques, costumes and a formidably enjoyable soundtrack; yet changes not one word from Shakespeare’s original play, thus making it appeal to a modern audience.
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Different interpretations of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The Beatles wrote this in the 1960’s but they certainly were not the. first to think about it.
Although Luhrmann’s loyalty to the original story may be questioned, his film has proven to be entertaining and successful. The film has outpaced the other adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and other Shakespearean plays as can be seen from the approximately 30 million dollars that it made through tickets and box office sales. Just as there are avid followers of the original tale by Shakespeare, Luhrmann’s version has a big fan base which, since its release 1996, has seen the film reach cult status and it can be said that Luhrmann has modernized Romeo and Juliet just as it can be said that he has ruined a brilliant masterpiece that was fine the way it was.