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Romeo And Juliet Vs Zeffirelli's

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Romeo and Juliet is a story of two starcrossed lovers’ tragedy, separated by the hatred between their two families. Many adaptations have been made for his world- renowned Shakespearean play, including Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet made in 1968 and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” made in 1996. Zeffirelli’s version was made generally faithful to the play, while Baz Luhrmann’s version was set in the ‘future’. The Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet is a better representation of the play, Romeo and Juliet, because it not only shows the major aspects but also additionally includes some extra parts that are fitting and that are significant. Firstly, in the 1996 version, the general storyline are available, while it also has a new setting …show more content…

However, Luhrmann, after making so many major changes, he also keeps the overall idea of the play, making the adaptations to both the play and how it will represent in the ‘future’ type. “O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night… For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (Shakespeare, Act I, scene 5, lines 43-52). This occurs when Romeo and his friends go to the party and Romeo spots Juliet for the first time and appreciates her beauty and how she is way finer than Rosaline. In the play, it just shows how he likes and observes her and tells her about his feelings that were the same feeling he had for Rosaline, and just wanted to sleep with her and thinks that Juliet will agree with his feelings. But in the movie it shows more precise actions action and more directly. Additionally, in the movie when Romeo spots Juliet he realizes that she is better. “Romeo spots her near the fish tank, and then both look at each other and realizes how they are attracted to each other. While she dances with Paris, …show more content…

A notable difference in the diegesis in the movie was in the last part when Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead. “Romeo comes to see Juliet, looking at her, he realizes that her cheeks are still pink and her lips are too. When he put on the ring and kissing her hand, she starts to wake up but Romeo doesn’t realize that, so he starts to drink the poison, while he does that Juliet opens her eyes and tries to stop Romeo but it was too late” (Luhrmann). Juliet wakes right after when Romeo drinks the poison. Putting this additional scene, it helps the readers to understand what shakespeare wanted to happen more clearly and more plainly. Shakespeare wanted to express that tension to the audience between that precious time of Romeo’s death and Juliet waking up from the counterfeit death, that the movie showed. This delineates the theme of bad luck and artifacts not going their means stronger than the play version. In the play, it's totally different. Friar Lawrence tells to himself as he walks in to see Juliet “ Romeo! Alack, alack, what blood is this stains...Ah, what an unkind hour Is guilty of this lamentable chance! The lady stirs.” (Shakespeare, Act 5, scene 3, lines 138- 147). Lawrence finds Romeo dead and realizes that Juliet was waking up. This texts shows the tension of Romeo’s death and how it was so close to plan

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He had given Juliet, who was begging for help, a small vial containing the liquid that would fake Juliet’s death. When the time had come, he depended too much on Friar John, and Romeo received the wrong news. Romeo had thought that Juliet was dead and went back to Verona with a bottle of poison to kill himself. Quickly, Friar Lawrence ran to stop him, only to find Romeo dead and Juliet waking up.

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Acting choices can transform a scene from a delighted one to a miserable one if done correctly. Specifically, during the death scene, Juliet wakes up and brushes Romeo’s cheek right after he finishes the poison. This choice amplifies the impulsivity of Romeo’s decision to take his own life. If he had taken just a few more seconds to look at Juliet more carefully rather than basking in her beauty, he probably would have seen some subtle movements that would have proved she was awake. In the original script, Romeo talks about how he is preventing death from loving Juliet.

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William Shakespeare probably wants to show how much Romeo wants to be alone with Juliet when he poisons himself. Baz Luhrmann skips over Paris being killed by Romeo and lets Romeo be alone with Juliet without killing

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After Juliet awakens from her false death, she finds Romeo and Paris dead which leads her to commit suicide. Earlier on in the play, the Friar expresses his hope that their marriage will be blessed and that they will not face future regrets or sorrow as he says, "So smile the heavens upon this holy act, That after-hours with sorrow chide us not." (Shakespeare.2.6.56).With the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence becomes aware of the disastrous implications of their secret marriage and his false counsel. He confesses his part in the tragedy, also acknowledging that their impulsive love has caused much destruction and mourning. Friar Laurence's epiphany underscores the theme of the play, highlighting the destructive power of unbridled passion and the consequences of incompetence.

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The last plan he had was to give Juliet a non-lethal drug that will make her seem dead for the next forty-two hours, have her buried in the family crypt, and found by Romeo. Romeo, who at the time had been banished from the city and sent to a near-by city, was waiting for news that he had been pardoned, which never happens. Instead, he gets news that Juliet has died, which of course isn’t true, but he goes ballistic over it. He buys poison, and heads back to the city to see if it’s true for himself, goes into the Capulet crypt, sees Juliet’s “dead” body which has been “dead” for almost two days, which still has color in it, and kills himself. Five seconds later, Friar Lawrence shows up because the person who was supposed to send the message to Romeo that Juliet hadn’t actually died got held up, so Romeo never got the message.

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The creates more suspense and frustration for the audience because Romeo doesn't know about the plan. But Romeo’s eager to find out how Juliet is doing, and is told that Juliet is dead. Romeo believes that Juliet is dead because he has not received the letter yet and rushes to Juliet's grave. Before Romeo arrives at Juliet's grave, he stops at Apothecary where he says, “Let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will it disperse itself through all the veins.” This adds more suspense because we the reader know that Juliet is not actually dead and now we know that Romeo is most likely planning to kill himself with this poison.

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Instead Juliet sees Romeo and stabs herself. The movie suicide scene is missing Friar Lawrence and Paris. Both in the play and movie the main point is that Romeo and Juliet die because they think the one another is dead. The movie is missing minor pieces and has a more brutal

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Romeo’s motivation in this speech is formed by factors such as his love for Juliet, his craving for revenge, and his sense of honor. At the beginning of this scene, Romeo arrives at the Capulet tomb to find Juliet seemingly lifeless. The news of Juliet’s death was falsely reported to him in Mantua, so leading up to this he had no idea of Friar Lawrence’s plan to sneak the seemingly dead Juliet out of the

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First of all when you’re reading the fight scene, it goes from fighting to someone die in a blink of an eye because it is made to be a scripted and acted but as much to be read. Second of all in the book Romeo and Paris fight and Romeo kills Paris and the movie was different because Paris was not even at the crypt so Romeo did not fight him. At the very end of the movie Romeo hears that Juliet is dead and goes after her, but Friar Lawrence is not even there to wake up

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As the curtain closes, the audience is struck with a newfound love, and because of the excellent use of literary devices, Shakespeare’s writings continue to live to this

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