Comparison Of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet

A lot of teenage boys are impulsive, meaning they act before they think, but Romeo exceeds the average. In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, Romeo acts before thinking, multiple times. It also happens a lot in the Romeo and Juliet movie directed by Baz Luhrmann. Romeo has a lot of incidents in where he doesn’t think before acting upon something. This alters the whole play and makes everything go wrong in the end for him and sometimes other characters. It messes with the plans of Friar Lawrence, it eventually gets Romeo killed, and it changes the plot entirely. I do however believe that the movie was effective. I believe that it did a good job giving depth to the double suicide scene. I think that it also did a good job

There are some significant differences between the play and the movie but all and all it is mainly the same. Some people may say that it isn’t anything like the play but I think that there are also some big similarities. For example, in both the play and the movie, the characters all speak the same, which is medieval speaking, and the party is still at the Capulet’s house in both, and the fight scene takes place in public and it’s hot, as said by Benvolio, “The day is hot, the Capulets abroad” (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 2), which means that they have the same climate. There are also a lot of differences between them both though, like the time period, the movie has guns and the play has knives, it’s at a ball where Romeo and Juliet first meet in the play, but in the movie they are at a costume party. A difference that was not in the movie, was the feud ending. In the play after Romeo and Juliet die then the feud ends between the two families, in the movie that doesn’t

They did mention her but they didn’t really go in depth like they did in the play, which is good, and it proves that Romeo isn’t that impulsive at least at the beginning of the movie. Romeo also is about the same age as Juliet in the movie, which makes sense because the movie takes place in modern times and it would be weird if an 25 year old guy was dating a 13 year old in 1996. Baz Luhrmann did a good job of fixing little things when he directed the movie, like changing the age of Romeo and Juliet a little and giving the movie a little more of a modern feeling. Romeo had one big difference that changed the plot as well, and that was that he didn’t fight Paris at the tomb. This changed in the movie because Juliet woke up as Romeo drank the poison and fighting Paris would have given him at least 5 minutes and he wouldn’t of killed