“I told you so,” said the Shakespeare statue in Gnomeo and Juliet after a lawnmower crushed the main characters. He was referring to how the two lovers were going to die, but it turns out that they didn’t! That’s just one example of how different the setting, characters, and plot events are, in Disney and Rocket Pictures’ Gnomeo and Juliet compared to Shakespeare’s classic, Romeo and Juliet.
The setting in Gnomeo and Juliet is very different than the one in Romeo and Juliet. According to Romeo and Juliet, the prologue says “In fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” It is saying that the setting is in a town in Italy. But on the other hand, Gnomeo and Juliet is set in two gardens that are owned by Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague. Another setting
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difference was that instead of having sword fights to show who is better, the teenage gnomes would have lawnmower races. In one of these lawnmower races Tybalt crashes into a wall and dies. But in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo kills Tybalt on purpose. These couple differences are just two of the many that prove the difference between the film and the play. The original Romeo and Juliet was set in Verona, Italy during the Elizabethan era. Gnomeo and Juliet was set in a modern city in Britain and the director was creative to set the two gardens on a street called Verona Drive. Also, Shakespeare was alive when Romeo and Juliet was performed but he was dead when Gnomeo and Juliet was created. The director changed this because it wouldn’t make sense for gnomes to be set in a town. They are too small. They also changed this so it would be more modern, funny, and enjoyable. The characters in Gnomeo and Juliet are similar to the ones in Romeo and Juliet, but they have their differences.
In Romeo and Juliet, Father Capulet describes his love for his daughter by saying, “She is the hopeful lady of my heart.” However, in Gnomeo and Juliet, Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague aren’t the couple’s parents, Mr. Redbrick and Mrs. Blueberry are. Redbrick is Juliet’s father and Blueberry is Gnomeo’s mother. Another thing that is different is that we get to know one of Gnomeo’s parents unlike the play, where we never really got to see Romeo’s mother or father. One of the small character differences was that Tybalt had a sidekick. Tybalt’s sidekick was named Fawn and played the role similar to Tybalt’s gang in Romeo and Juliet. These examples show they are different because the main character’s parents play different roles. The Capulets and Montagues are the actual parents of Juliet and Romeo but in Gnomeo and Juliet, Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague are just the garden owners having a feud between themselves. Whatever the gnomes do to the garden, the owner thinks it was the other one. The director changed this to help fit in with the whole gnome theme, but also to put in some situational irony. The owners didn’t know that the gnomes could move and that the gnomes were the ones destroying the
garden. The plot events are the main difference between Romeo and Juliet and Gnomeo and Juliet. A big plot difference is that Gnomeo and Juliet don’t get married when they meet each other. Instead, Gnomeo asks Juliet if she will start a garden with him. Another huge plot difference is that Gnomeo and Juliet do not die in the end. However, in the last act of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says “Here’s to my love” and he drinks the poison because he thinks Juliet is dead. When Juliet wakes up and discovers Romeo is dead she says “O happy dagger” and kills herself for Romeo. Nothing like this happens in Gnomeo and Juliet and the director probably chose this to put in a happy ending (because it’s Disney) and to make it different than most other Romeo and Juliet remakes. Disney and Rocket Pictures’ Gnomeo and Juliet have a lot of differences from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet but they are acceptable and add an exciting twist to the movie. The setting, characters, and plot events are different from the original Romeo and Juliet but there is no way to make it the same. No remake of Romeo and Juliet can ever be the same as the original. The director or author has to change the story/film into a more relatable setting or theme due to our change of culture and to avoid repetitiveness.
Gnomeo and Juliet is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare's original play called Romeo and Juliet. Some differences between the movie and the original play are that the movie is not a tragedy; Gnomeo and Juliet survive, Whereas in Gnomeo and Juliet Paris and Lady Montague do not die. Similarly, in Gnomeo and Juliet both their parents are feuding Gnomeo's family (the Blue Gnomes) and Juliet's family (the red Gnomes). This movie shares a wonderful interpretation of this play with hundreds of children all over the world. By making the two main characters animated gnomes, it makes the movie look engaging and the children will want to watch
First, we learned that in Gnomeo and Juliet, most of the characters are gnomes, there is no Mercutio, the Nurse is a frog, and Lady Capulet and Montague have died before the story starts. Also in both stories Tybalt is an antagonist and Friar Lawrence gives Romeo/Gnomeo and Juliet advice on their love and how they can be together. Secondly, we learned that Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy in the 1600s and Gnomeo and Juliet takes place in modern day Britain. In both stories Romeo/Gnomeo talks to Juliet on the balcony. Lastly, we learned that Romeo and Juliet starts the story with a fight and Gnomeo and Juliet starts with a lawn mower race. Additionally, in both stories it ends with the feud being over, but in Romeo and Juliet they kill themselves and in Gnomeo and Juliet they are almost killed by the Terafirminator. So would you’ve wanted to be a part of either of these
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two lovers who have to risk their lives in order to demonstrate their love and will to stay together, regardless the feud between their families. By the end, the death of Romeo and Juliet finally bring the reconciliation to these two families. It is fate that the two most shall-not meet people fall in love and it love that eventually won against hatred. Since then, there have been many different versions of Romeo and Juliet, whether it was for film, stage, musicals. These different recontextualised adaptions change the original play by many ways, some modernise the language, environment, props as well as changing the original characteristics of some characters. Out of all the different adaptions of Romeo and Juliet, two stood out the most. One was the Romeo and Juliet (1996) and directed by Baz Luhrmann and the other one was Romeo and Juliet Broadway (2013) play version,
The movie then continues with the camera focussed on two towers labelled ‘Montague’ and ‘Capulet’ throwing shade at the audience. Romeo had unrequited love for Rosaline, who is mentioned, but doesn’t appear in the movie or the original script. But those feelings are dead the second he sees Juliet. Although the young make some pretty irresponsible decisions, the movie deviates from the stereotype that the young are stupid, and the old are wise. For instance, THE ENTIRE FOUNDATION OF THE STORY – the feud between two families.
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," set in 16th century Verona, Italy shares differences with Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," set in modern day Verona Beach. These stories contain the same characters and conflict, however major and minor discrepancies are galore in the story lines of both formats of William Shakespeare's creation. Some major inconsistencies occur, such as Mercutio dying at a beach, portrayed as a hero, instead of being at a bar, looking like a fool, Friar Lawrence's letter is successfully sent to Romeo by mail carriers, however he does not have the opportunity to read it, unlike in the play version, where Romeo does not get the letter from Friar John, and is told the news by Balthazar, and nobody being at Juliet's tomb to stop Romeo from reaching Juliet, unlike in the play, Paris was there to pay his respects to Juliet. In addition to the major inconsistencies, minor ones are included throughout, such as Romeo and Juliet first seeing each other through a fish tank, then kissing in the elevator, not the dance, the famous balcony scene occurring in a pool, not on an actual balcony, and Juliet pointing a gun at Friar after she points it to herself, threatening to commit suicide. These inconsistencies probably occurred in the play to add a modern and entertaining twist to the Shakespearean classic, leading to the same denouement in both versions of "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet."
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 and 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 the renewal of props and costumes, the reconstruction of the prologue and the upgrading of the setting, 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.
You can see from all I have written Romeo & Juliet is a play in which
The movie Gnomeo and Juliet (directed by Kelly Asbury) is based on the story of Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare. It tells the tale of a boy and a girl from warring families who meet and fall in love. In both stories, Romeo and Juliet come from two different families with extreme hatred towards one another, both characters fall in love with each other at first sight, and both characters sneak around to see each other.
Even though the themes were similar, the plot of the movie and the play were rather different. In the movie, Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, got an invitation to Lord Caplet’s ball where Romeo and Juliet meet, but in the movie Romeo and this friends go to Lord Capulet’s party uninvited. What's more, is that when Romeo was at the ball he was recognized by Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, from the sound of his voice in the play, but in the movie Tybalt sees him. In addition to that one scene where Juliet was hysterical because she thought Romeo was dead was completely absent in the movie.
There are two neighbors with the same hobby is gardening, they are Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet. Mrs montague has a garden with a blue gnome and mr.capulet have a garden gnome with a red, when the garden was left by their owners in the garden gnomes that live like human beings. But the second life gnome is always involved in the conflict,
Romeo and Juliet, a story of a tragic romance between two young lovers. And within the story you find that it is different from the book to the movie. While reading the book you notice some differences between it and the movie. While watching the movie you see one difference and it is that instead of swords like the book they have guns and they called them swords. They did this as a result of the movie is in a more modern time than the book. Another difference is when Mercutio is making Romeo go to the party. In the book he talks him into going to the party. In the movie Mercutio made him take a tablet or pill of some kind to make him go. Still the same as the other difference, still in a more modern era.
If the Capulet parents were more involved in Juliet’s life, maybe the outcome of Romeo and Juliet would have been different in the end. Their parenting style affect Juliet and the play in general. Lord and Lady Capulet are both uninvolved parents in the play when it comes to raising their daughter, Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet is a play about two adolescents—Romeo and Juliet from two hostile families fall in love with each other. This prohibited love ultimately turns into a romantic tragedy, in which they commit suicide for each other. Both Franco Zeffirelli’s (1968) and Baz Lurhmann’s (1996) versions retained the dialogues written by William Shakespeare in their movies. However, these two movies are directed in their own unique ways, which have several distinctive differences.
Ever since William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was published in 1507, there have been multiple recreations of the famous play, some of which are better than others. Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet released in 2011, is just one of many recreations of Shakespeare’s play. Gnomeo and Juliet depicts the story of two star crossed lovers from feuding families that are forbidden to love. It is set in Mr. Capulet and Ms. Montague’s gardens. Gnomeo and Juliet is not a successful adaptation of the original play. The different plot ending and how Gnomeo and Juliet met is depicted differently in the movie than the original play. The differences in plot endings make a big difference in representation of the play.