Romeo and Juliet - Media

[mrsanderson]

You're assigned a 'level' depending on how many posts you've written...they're all from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Alice Through the Looking-Glass'. You start off as a Dormouse and then every time you hit a landmark number of posts, it changes.
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[scott]

isn't this fun with all the thunder and lightning?

i admire lightning

[robbieman456]

Since I was off the last few days of school I don't know my redrafted grade.

It would be nice to know what it is.

[mrsanderson]

Hi Robbie,

I have of course left your Romeo and Juliet redrafts at school over the holidays and I can't recall yours off the top of my head I'm afraid! I'll probably be in school next week so I'll check then, or let you know what it is on the 17th, when you get back to school.

Enjoy the rest of your holidays,

Miss Davidson

[scott]

on behalf of robbieman456 who is next to me when reading this he thanks you and hopes you have enjoyed your holidays as well

see you at school next week

Scott

[thethoughtpolice]

Scott, positive karma for you!

[rhysarthur]

Romeo and Juliet

“ Romeo and Juliet” directed by Baz Luhrmann was originally written by William Shakespeare in 1597. The film about love and violence was realised in 1996 as a modern adaptation. The play was adapted into a screen play by the writer Craig Pearce. Baz Luhrmann makes the film modern by using modern props such as guns and cars. Luhrmann also uses a much more modern set. The main themes of the film are love and hate. Luhrmann also makes the film more modern by using technical media techniques, such as diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, editing, captions and using the different techniques for camera.

Romeo and Juliet is a story about love and violence, which go hand in hand throughout the narrative. At the beginning of the film we learn that there is tension between the Montagues and Capulets which is followed by a fight at the petrol station. After, Romeo's cousin ( Benvolio) finds a very depressed Romeo. Romeo is depressed because he is in love with a girl called Rosilne. At the Capulets party, Romeo and his true love Juliet exchange vows in love. After the wedding fate turns on the pair as Romeo is banished from Verona for man slaughter and Juliet is forced to marry Paris. These unfortunate events lead to their suicides, and the families realise that all these years of fighting have cost them the lives of their children and they resolve to stop fighting.

The prologue from the original Shakespeare play outlines the story for the audience. Shakespeare's prologue is used in Luhrmann's film to set up the rest of the film. The prologue doesn't detract the excitement from the film as most of the modern audience knows the story. Luhrmann makes the prologue modern by using a newsreader in a t.v instead of using a narrator on a stage. Luhrmann tries to draw the audience into the movie by zooming into the t.v as if the t.v is dragging the audience into it. The prologue also draws the audience in by the language.
“ The fearful passage of their death-marked love,” Which sums up the whole story and covers all the themes. It also gives you a rough idea of what will happen in the movie.

In the opening, sequence of the film, the audience is first introduced to the Montague boys who come across as laidback as they are wearing colourful hawaiian shirts and blaring music from their car. When they arrive at the petrol station the audience finds out the boys have a bawdy sense of humour. The Montagues' behaviour changes once the Capulets arrive. The way the Capulets dress up in there smart clothes suggests that they are much more serious than the Montagues and thier actions there looking for a fight, espicially Tybalt as he wears a fiery red top which says alot about his character becuase his character is very fierce and he has a bad attitude.

The audience at first see Benvolio and Tybalt as the leaders of their “clans”. Benvolio comes across as the “good guy” at the start as he tries to not resort to violence, saying the famous lines;
“ i do but keep the peace! Put up thy sword or manage it to part these men with me.” This suggests to the audience that Benvolio is the better of the two and it also suggests that the Montagues are not as serious and only do things for the fun of it. Benvolio's name means “ wellwisher” and it sums him up as he is very calm and he does not want no harm anyone. Tybalt on the other hand comes across as the more aggressive of the two and he is not sympathetic;
“... and talk of peace! I hate the word, as i hate hell, all Montagues, and thee...” The audience at this point feel that Tybalt is the real antihero and that he does not give people a chance. Luhrmann does try to make the two houses different in personality and looks, and the majority of the audience likes the Montagues more as they are like the typical “ good guys”.

The main themes of the original play are love and hate, as well as prejudice. Luhrmann shows all these themes in the opening sequence, for example when Tybalt says how he hates all Montagues. This is prejudice as Tybalt is saying that he hates all Montagues even though he hasn't met them all. He is also stereotyping them, presuming that their all bad people. An example of love is when Benvolio tries to help the other members of his family by stopping the fighting. This shows that the Montagues are very loyal to each other. The theme of hate is clearly shown in the opening sequence as a result of the fighting.

To conclude Luhrmann has effectively modernised the original play to make it fit with the modern world. Luhrmann keeps themes and the plots the same but has managed to make the set and props much more modern. The majority of the audience would have enjoyed the movie with the old fashioned language.

By Rhys Arthur

[xalanax]

Hey Miss, this is my essay ;D

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[mrsanderson]

Thank you, Alana!