Claire Danes

Romeo + Juliet is a modern film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s infamous Romeo and Juliet , directed in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the lead roles of Romeo and Juliet This film uses an original Elizabethan script, paired with modern visuals such as modern clothes, weapons and surroundings . Set in “Verona Beach” a rough costal city where the Capulet and Montague families are represented as rival mafia empires. This analytical essay will explore…

newer movie had a variety of people race wise. I think that Leonardo DiCaprio was a good choice for the role of Romeo because Leonardo DiCaprio is a really good actor in my opinion and also his delivery is really well done. I also thought that Claire Danes was a good choice for the role of Juliet since she didn’t seem that young like in Zeffirelli’s version since Juliet looked like she was 10 which I thought didn’t suit the play as much. The use of music was also important in the films. In…

comparing the 1968 film which was directed by Franco Zeffirelli starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as romeo and juliet and the second film adaptation i will be comparing is the 1996 film directed by Baz Luhrmann starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes as romeo and juliet. The first key difference i would like to touch on is the setting and characters. In the Zeffirelli adaptation based film the characters are walking…

that has the words swords engraved in the pistol. The brawl also took place at a gas station and a fire was set off at the end of the fight. In both the movie and the tragedy, there is a party scene where Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes) first meet. They both take place in the Capulet's mansion where Tybalt wants to fight Romeo, Romeo & Juliet kiss, and where Romeo finds out Juliet is a Capulet. The differences in this scene was that in the tragedy, the party does not have…

The play is old and written by William Shakespeare. The story is about Romeo (played by leonardo DiCaprio) and Julie (played by Claire Danes), they are wildly in love with each other, but their families have been enemies for many generations. In the movie you get the whole story, when they meet, when they kiss, when they got married and all the problems. Romeo: Romeo is a boy age…

American Promise is a documentary film that captures the experiences of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers two middle-class African American boys from Brooklyn. Recorded over the span of thirteen years, this film chronicles their journeys at the Dalton School, one of the most prestigious private schools in the US. While this documentary raises serious concerns and challenges to the widely held American Dream, it presents us with a much needed insight on the realities of class, race, and opportunity…

This is a film study on Temple Grandin, a woman with autism who achieved academic success despite her disability. By the age of 2, Temple was diagnosed with autism, considered then to be a form of brain damage. Her mother, Eustacia, initially blamed her daughter’s physicians for her condition. The medical consensus at that time was that autism was a form of schizophrenia resulting from insufficient maternal affection. The film follows Temple Grandin's life, providing background through a…

William Shakespeare is perhaps if not the, one of the most commonly recognized literary writers of his time. It is quite appropriate to argue that the vast arsenal of literary work Shakespeare completed throughout his lifetime has widely influenced people and entertainment throughout history and today. William Shakespeare’s work transcends cross-cultural boundaries and builds bridges of literacy between people all over the world. Shakespeare is most commonly known for his writing style. Though…

In Claire Kramsch’s The Relationship Between Language and Culture, she analyzes how language and culture are linked, and also the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Kramsch highlights the romantic aspect of the complex relationship, ultimately deciding that the relationship…

details have been shifted, most notable towards the end. The location of the film is set at Verona Beach, Florida in the United States of America instead of original setting at Verona in Italy. The movie portrays Leonardo Dicaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as…