Luca Llorens Jonathan Waserman English 9 27 February 2023 The real Romeo and Juliet film adaptation In the film adaptation Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann, it demonstrates the fight for love between rival gangs and shows that Romeo and Juliet would do anything to be together. However, in West Side Story it feels like it doesn't really get everything out of the play and doesn’t feel the same as the story. In West Side Story, by Jerome Robbins, it is about 2 rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets in New York. Tony, who is a jet, and Maria, who is the sister to a member of the sharks. Tony and Maria end up running away together and living together. The film version of Romeo and Juliet is a better film adaptation than West Side Story. The essence of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is that true …show more content…
Romeo never wants to lose Juliet and in this scene he expresses his absolute love for her. In this next quote, it is now Juliet talking instead of Romeo. Well, just see for yourself. “O god, I have an ill-divined soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb, either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.” Act 3, scene 5. This quote is from when Juliet is thinking of how she is supposed to live without Romeo, and this quote shows how much she dreads it and how bad she can't live without him. Juliet feels the same way about Romeo as Romeo feels about her, and just as Romeo can't imagine living without her, she can't imagine living without him. In both of these quotations, it describes the real fight that Romeo and Juliet were both willing to fight just to be together. In the first quote, it's Romeo talking about how even though he has a bounty, his love for Juliet is even deeper. Juliet is speaking in the second quote and she is saying how she couldn’t bear to live without Romeo and this is just proving the point even more of