Creating A Mood Or Atmosphere In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Argument #1: Creating a mood or atmosphere

The famous Romeo and Juliet play has many movie adaptions created over the past century. Two of the most notable Movies based on this play would be that of Franco Zeffirelli, which was made in 1968. The other would be that of Baz Lurhmann’s, made in 1996. I believe that Shakespeare’s intent, to create a Hateful atmosphere in the play was better represented by Baz Lurhmann, as he focused on presenting the play in a more dramatic way. In Lurhmann’s movie, Gregory (a servant of Montague in this version) insulted members of the Capulet family as he drove past them. This shows the audience how much resentment there was between the Montagues and Capulets. Thereafter, The Montagues and Capulets met at a gas station. Abra (a servant of Capulet in this version) scared Sampson and Gregory. In response, Sampson bit his thumb at Abra, causing them to engage into a verbal confrontation. This is what Abra said in this Confrontation: “Do you bite your thumb at us sir” (1.1.39) and Sampson said the following: “I do bite my thumb sir” (1.1.40). Abra and Sampson were shrieking at each other,

The Prince is very distinctly shown in Zeffirelli by his authoritative attitude and his attire whereas The Prince in Lurhmann’s movie was not very clearly introduced. The scene had went the same way but instead of coming in on horse, the Prince came in a helicopter, which didn’t really preserve the way the original play was. Also, this Prince had been shown a more of a police officer with his attire and way of speech. In all, Zeffirelli had introduced the Prince into Act 1 Scene 1 the way Shakespeare had intended since he made the Prince look and Act as more of an authoritative figure, when alongside Lurhmann’s version who had focused less on the Prince. In conclusion Franco Zeffirelli had done a more top notch job when compared to Baz Lurhmann to advertise Shakespeare’s