A Comparison of Two Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by Zefferelli and Luhrmann

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A Comparison of Two Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by Zefferelli and Luhrmann One is by the more authentic director Franco Zefferelli and one is by the more modern money-seeking director Baz Lurmann. The major differences between the two movies Romeo and Juliet who were made by Franco Zefferelli in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann in 1996, are that they were interpreted in different ways because the historical and social context of the two films which may have influenced the two directors to portray their movies the way they did. . Zeferili’s interpretation was to make an authentic traditional movie which was based on the original era it was set in which was the medieval ages. The other interpretation by Baz Lurmann was a very modern approach, which was more profit based, in which he sets the film in the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona whilst he still uses original Elizabethan language aimed at a younger audience. Each director achieves his aim by using different techniques, props, and special effects that I will be discussing in this essay. When Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet he did not include a lot of stage directions in his script. This meant that the director of the movie had to interpret the movies the way they had pictured or thought it should be. Both of these directors had different ideas on how to illustrate this story to people in film form as they have approached it in different techniques and at different times meaning their audience intended was different and their culture and social and historical context... ... middle of paper ... ...portray the sonnet and was used by Zefferelli to make it more realistic and to was inspired by his own culture and similar movies that he made. While Romeo and Juliet are reciting the sonnet Juliet is laid on a dark background to make her stand out. Also Zefferelli is using shots to show both faces. They kiss but then the nurse pulls her away and Romeo asks who Juliet is. The nurse replies that she is a Capulet and Romeo is heart broken. As Romeo is leaving Juliet also finds out that Romeo is a Montague and she is terribly upset and the music changes to show that she is sad. We then get a close up of Tybalt and we see that he is angry by his facial expression as he looks at the camera. Zefferelli adds this shot to give us some extra information about the story and this tells us that Tybalt knows about Romeo and Juliet.

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