How has Baz Luhrmann tried to modernize the play Romeo and Juliet to make it more understandable for a modern audience?
Romeo and Juliet is a play originally written by Shakespeare in medieval times. Many ‘modern’ versions have been made such as has Baz Luhrmanns 1996 movie. As this essay will compare the original and the movie. In areas such as locations, vehicles and characters.
In both of these productions the story itself remains quite the same. But Baz Luhrmann has put a modern taste on the classic. The Chorus states the prologue in the stage play while in the movie the prologue is told by both a TV news reporter and by Friar Lawrence. The Montagues and Capulets feud against each other have gone into their third outbreak. Something Baz also how the family’s operate In the movie its treated more like a business with big billboards with the family names on them. As usual Tybalt of the Capulets and Benvolio of the Montagues are the two leaders who either want to escalate it or resolve it. Meanwhile Romeo is being a lovesick boy dreaming about a girl Rosaline. His cousin Benvolio and his friend Mercutio try to get him out of that …show more content…
This is not so in the film version. In the film Verona is presented as an analogue to Miami and Mantua. The characters dress in different modes. The Capulets dress in formal dapper wear, while the Montagues dress in colourful Hawaiian-styled short-sleeved opened shirt with jeans. The weaponry is modernized to go along with the setting. Instead of swords and such the Montagues and Capulets fight each other with 9 mm. handguns. Also in this modernization, the people travel by really tricked out and seemingly expensive cars and helicopters. Something that hasn’t changed in the movie is the language used. Characters still speak in a Shakespearean way. The music style has also been changed. Take the party for example, it had a more modern
Romeo and Juliet is a play originally written by Shakespeare in medieval times. Many ‘modern’ versions have been made such as has Baz Luhrmanns 1996 movie. As this essay will compare the original and the movie. In areas such as locations, vehicles and characters.
In both of these productions the story itself remains quite the same. But Baz Luhrmann has put a modern taste on the classic. The Chorus states the prologue in the stage play while in the movie the prologue is told by both a TV news reporter and by Friar Lawrence. The Montagues and Capulets feud against each other have gone into their third outbreak. Something Baz also how the family’s operate In the movie its treated more like a business with big billboards with the family names on them. As usual Tybalt of the Capulets and Benvolio of the Montagues are the two leaders who either want to escalate it or resolve it. Meanwhile Romeo is being a lovesick boy dreaming about a girl Rosaline. His cousin Benvolio and his friend Mercutio try to get him out of that …show more content…
This is not so in the film version. In the film Verona is presented as an analogue to Miami and Mantua. The characters dress in different modes. The Capulets dress in formal dapper wear, while the Montagues dress in colourful Hawaiian-styled short-sleeved opened shirt with jeans. The weaponry is modernized to go along with the setting. Instead of swords and such the Montagues and Capulets fight each other with 9 mm. handguns. Also in this modernization, the people travel by really tricked out and seemingly expensive cars and helicopters. Something that hasn’t changed in the movie is the language used. Characters still speak in a Shakespearean way. The music style has also been changed. Take the party for example, it had a more modern