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Romeo And Juliet And The Great Gatsby Comparison

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In both the films Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby Baz Luhrmann uses the same specific style of storytelling to ensure his audience remains captivated throughout the entire movie. Through the editing choices, lighting, camera work, music choices and actor choices he shows how his style grips the audience. Luhrmann has a definite way of telling stories. In both Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby he uses a prologue to narrate the story. Both are used to provide the audience with initial information they need to understand the rest of the story. Without this prologue the audience would spend majority of the film trying to fill in the missing pieces of the story. In Romeo and Juliet the prologue is the news presenter’s presentation followed by a montage of events of …show more content…

If the audience feels the anguish that the actors are portraying throughout dramatic scenes in the films it makes it more believable. It is then easier for the viewers to engross themselves with the other emotions throughout the film. Baz uses lighting in both films to create tension. In The Great Gatsby the lighting over the industrial area is always dark and murky. This is a representation that only bad things happen in that area and this area is used as a symbol for moral corruption. This gives the audience an ominous feeling whenever there is a scene in the industrial area. The lighting in Romeo and Juliet is used to create a more direct tension for specific events. When Mercuito dies the weather immediately picks up and turns into a storm. The lighting is dark and direful and this heightens the tension at this point in the film as well as indicates to the audience how serious the consequences of this death will be. Because the lighting is used to add to the dramatics of the movie is makes it easier for the audience to feel the

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Isabella Talamantez Ms. Tobias English III- 6th 12 January 2017 The Great Gatsby, Compared and Contrasted The Great Gatsby is a popular book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s. Much later it was adapted into a movie that is a topic of debate because of its similarities and differences. While they both have the same storyline of a poor farmer’s son rising to riches with the aspiration of getting his dream girl, the book and movie have variations concerning details such as the materialistics and relationships.

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The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann depicts how a man named Gatsby is lost in the past because of his love for a girl named Daisy. It is an interesting point of view considering the fact that Gatsby is a very wealthy man in the 1920s. His whole life is mostly about trying to get back the love of his life and he loses his ability to use common sense on his adventure. Midnight in Paris directed by Woody Allen shows a writer named Gil lose interest in his wife named Inez as he finds way nicer and better people while mysteriously time traveling to the 1920s in Paris. On his journey he finds some of the most famous artists and authors of the time period that inspire him on the book he is writing and also on the decisions he should make with

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This sets a sad mood for the reader, as the reader knows that the story will end with the two dying, and also knows that Romeo does not. Overall, William Shakespeare successfully used foreshadowing consistently throughout the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It helps set the tone for the reader and helps the story progress smoothly. They foreshadowing lines help reveal Romeo’s character and keeps the reader engaged in the story.

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Also, all had the famous balcony scene that everyone knows the line “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.” Another thing is all the characters that played Romeo were handsome, young men and every Juliet was a perfectly gorgeous young women. As well as Romeo and Juliet meeting at a party. In every single film, they had Romeo and Juliet die side by side, with Romeo’s death by poison, and Romeo and Juliet dying on Juliet’s wedding

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When I read the last part of The Great Gatsby, I was totally touched by Gatsby’s sacrifice for Daisy. When Wilson’s wife Myrtle tragic accident happened, Gatsby tries to hide the truth which is Daisy driving that car instantly killed Myrtle. Gatsby tell Nick what had happened during that situation. “Well, I tried to swing the wheel- he broke off, and suddenly” (Fitzgerald, 152). In order to protect Daisy, Gatsby even does not want to tell his old sport Nick.

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Romeo and Juliet For this essay I’m going to compare the characters from the original play, Romeo and Juliet, the film Romeo + Juliet, and the novel Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North. I’m also going to argue why Romeo and Juliet is the most interesting to me. In most of the versions I have mentioned, Romeo and Juliet are the children of two feuding families. They fall in love and run into obstacles at every turn.

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A director named Baz Luhrmann turned The Great Gatsby into a film. By casting the right actors to portray the characters, Luhrmann effectively recreated the book on screen. The movie opens differently than the book, with Nick in the office of a therapist. Although this differs from the book, it puts a twist on the movie. After the events Nick went through, it is understandable that he needs to talk about everything that happened.

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Romeo and Juliet. This is one of the most widely known tragic love stories in English Literature. There are many themes that can be interpreted from this story, depending on the person, you might get the same theme as someone else. The theme that I get from this story, however, is love. People will do just about anything for love and are willing to go to extremes for it.

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The entire plot of the movie “The Great Gatsby,” directed by Baz Luhrmann, is pretty much very accurate to the novel of the same name written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. They both center around a man named Jay Gatsby who throws extravagant parties in hope that one day his love Daisy will wander in. Of course like all movies that are based off of books they all have their similarities and differences. Whether they be very small or very noticeable, sometimes even changing the entire story completely, they are still there. Sometimes the purpose of this could be that the director wants to add their own little twist to the story or it could be that they are going for a much deeper meaning or symbolism.

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The Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgeneral and is a famous piece of English literature. I will tell you about the differences between the novel and the famous of The Great Gatsby where Nick meet Tom, how Nick meet Gatsby and when Gatsby was shoot. In the novel Nick meet Tom at his door when Nick in went to the to see who was there that's when they meet in the novel but in the movie Nick meets Tom at the dock .

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The Great Gatsby is a story of heartbreak. There is no central progressive idea to the story. It is simply for entertainment purposes. Compared to the twenty first century, nineteenth century literature is very different. This affects how the novel, Frankenstein, is written.

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An American Dream is an opportunity which a person has to achieve an ideal life. In the novel, “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, it explains Gatsby’s life in achieving his version of the American Dream, but it fails. This novel is compared to a song called “American Dream” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash, which explains about a person living their American Dream. In the song “American Dream”, they state that “Reporters crowd around your house”, which compares to Gatsby when Nick says, “I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographer and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby’s front door” (Fitzgerald 171). It’s suggesting that after Gatsby got shot by George Wilson, there were many reporters that came to Gatsby’s house to investigate.

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When he walks in, there’s an overwhelming brightness in the church, symbolising his escape from the darkness and finding his light. Hundreds of lit candles surround Juliet, showing her innocence and bright spirit. When the scene closes, the candles come together as an overhead shot is used and makes them seem like stars around Romeo and Juliet. In the Great Gatsby the lights in the mansion are not all on, only a few are left on to signify the death of Gatsby and the light of his life diminishing. The ocean is brighter and has lighter cast on it than the mansion.

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