Romeo And Juliet Comparison Essay

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Final series of paragraphs supporting an opinion
( minimum of four ) which version of Romeo and Juliet has the most appeal to students learning and studying Shakespeare?
> Support your opinion with relevant evidence from your media and oral communication analysis and refer to your notes on production and design, language and message, content ( text ), and audience, as well as your prior and acquired knowledge on the story Romeo and Juliet.

William Shakespeare is a play writer, poet, and an actor, he wrote many plays including Romeo and Juliet, many people enjoy reading and acting out the play. Over the years many people recreated their own versions of the famous Romeo and Juliet the movies are similar in their own ways, as well as different in their own ways.When showing something entirely new to student it’s better if the students learn about the subject from the original or something close to the original.

In My opinion franco Zeffirelli’s version of Romeo and Juliet has the most appeal to students …show more content…

The play gives the setting and uses the right dialogue, Franco Zeffirelli play showed how the characters actually dressed back then, in tights, corsets, and in tight clothing his play was more realistic and easy to believe. The 1998 version of Romeo and Juliet changed many scenes around in order to fit into the modern theme of the movie, for instance the balcony scene was not on a balcony it was done in a pool, Romeo and Juliet were set in different positions Rome hide behind a stone wall underneath Juliet’s window, Juliet come down to the pool side and talks about Romeo being a Montague, when in the 1968 version Romeo was hiding behind bushes of leaves, and Juliet was actually on a balcony but never came down, also in the 1996 they used guns instead of swords Baz Luhrmann also put in fancy cars and colourful tropical