Romeo And Juliet Film Techniques

Baz Luhrmann utilizes, William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to make his film more understandable to a modern audience. Through Luhrmann’s eye for attention to detail he is able to make a successful adaptation between the 1597 play and modernized film. In the film Baz Luhrmann uses various sorts of cinematography to make this change more clear to the audience. In the film Luhrmann uses multiple props, costuming and different settings to make the film more accessible to a modern audience.

Baz Luhrmann uses a variety of props to make his film more understandable to a modern audience. In the classic tragedy of Romeo and Juliet the characters use swords as a source of weaponry instead of guns as illustrated in the film. Also in the classic tragedy horses were used for transportation instead of cars. In the film light is used in various scenes, however in the classic tragedy candles are used. This shows that Baz Luhrmann strategically studied the 1597 Shakespearean play of Romeo and Juliet to make it more suitable to a modern day audience.

The costuming in the play is said to be like the clothing worn during the era of Queen Elizabeth. Men typically wore boots, pants, shirt, vest and a hat. However, women wore, an over and underskirt, a shirt, a bodice and a hat. In the film Romeo + Juliet, Romeo is seen wearing laid back hawaiian clothing whilst Juliet is seen wearing a white dress. This shows that there is a big contrast between the costuming worn in the the classic tragedy and the film, Romeo + Juliet. This demonstrates that Baz Luhrmann uses modernized costuming in the film to make it more understandable to a modern