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Romeo And Juliet Vs Zeffirelli's

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Written in the 1950’s, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two star crossed lovers that end their lives for love. Over 30 film adaptations have been made of William Shakespeare’s remarkable production. Two of the most well-known film versions are Baz Luhrman’s 1996 and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptations. Both films execute the story from a different perspective of the directors. The alteration in time period caused the evolution of Romeo and Juliet to be different to each other. These dissimilarities are found in the costumes, lighting, camera angles, dialogues and several other key features. Many features such as language, sound motif and acting style have been retained, enhanced or lost from Shakespeare 's page to Baz …show more content…

Both films use different types of camera angles to express the scene. The two films use a lot of close up shots when Romeo and Juliet first meet and make eye contact. This shots helps emphasise their emotional state about each other. Both films express Tybalt’s appearance using different camera movement and angles. In Baz Luhrmann’s version, while Juliet dances with Paris, the scene quickly cuts into a close up shot of Tybalt 's furious face. The shot then zooms out to reveal two men on either sides of Tybalt. However, in Zeffirelli 's film Tybalt is introduced through a middle shot during his dance. The part where Juliet and Romeo realise they are enemies have definitely been enhanced when comparing the two films. Luhrmann’s adaptations shows a close up shot of Romeo and as he realises she is a Capulet, the camera zooms out showing Romeo’s heartbroken face. Romeo’s helpless face stands out with the cheerful and excited guests in the background as the camera zooms out. A high angle shot is used when Juliet looks down at Romeo after she realises Romeo is a Montague. On the other hand, Zeffirelli’s film shows Juliet in a middle shot crying and Romeo’s reaction is unknown because of his

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They did not have many props and had difficulties while trying to get some of the messages across to his audience. On the other hand, Baz Luhrmann 's film is also the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, the film was released on October 27th 1996. Because of tools like editing, soundtracks and lighting he had an easier job of getting his message across. Baz Luhrmann uses the same script from Shakespeare 's time but instead of swords he uses guns and a more modern way of gripping the audience.

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Towards the end of the two the acts upon the characters are very different. In Romeo and Juliet you might see it a little darker. Unlike West Side Story Juliet kills herself, But in West Side Story Maria does not kill herself this might have to do with the time both were made. Back during the time of the play suicide was more common in many. But impulsivity was still shown in the movie it was just less of a consequence and only one died than both.

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At this moment in the scene the fast tracking of the camera on Romeo and Juliet helps to convey how quickly the two are moving. In addition, the zoom on Romeo and Juliet’s faces as they are kissing shows that they are deeply in love and yearn to have each other. The impulsiveness demonstrated by the camera tracking shows that Romeo and Juliet are moving quickly because they do not want to get caught by their families. In Zeffirelli’s version, as Juliet says to herself, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name/ or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet,” the camera immediately zooms onto the face of Romeo to show him smirking (2.2.37-39).

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Juliet is talking about Romeo and expressing her love but, how she wishes that he wasn’t a Montaque. What she doesn’t realize is that Romeo is below the balcony. But, the audience sees Romeo below the balcony hearing what Juliet is saying and listening how she wishes that he wasn’t a Montague. An Example of dramatic irony in Scene 2 are when Romeo tells his friends “he jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

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