Do remakes ever work up to the originals? Movies may never work up to the original piece, but when making a movie of one of the most well known plays in the world, you have to step up your game. The movie Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann never really comes close to the play written by William Shakespeare. Every difference in the movie can affect the representation of the play, setting, characters like Romeo and even the plot. The Setting is one of the biggest parts of anything, book, movie, or play. There are differences and similarities between the two versions, good and bad. For one thing, both the play and movie use an Elizabethan dialect, and in my opinion, I think the movie should have spoken more modern like we do today so we can understand it better. The
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The play takes place in Verona, Italy in the 1500’s while the movie takes place in Verona beach California in the 1990’s. One of the things that makes it more modern is the use of guns instead of swords. It would have been weird for the characters walking down the streets with swords in the modern time of the movie, so I believe this detail fits well. Another difference is that the party at the Capulet house was more of a dress up party rather than the masquerade ball they have in the play. I think that some of these differences make both movie and play look like a joke and not a serious romance like Shakespeare most likely intended it to be. Romeo is one of the two main characters in Romeo and Juliet. The Romeo in the play is portrayed as a dramatic, ambitious teenager in love. The Movie did a great job representing this, but it also brought in an overly crazy side of Romeo. He is a Montague who falls in love with Juliet quickly, and those two are kept the same between the two versions. Romeo also kills himself in both and says, “Thus with a kiss, I die” (V.iii.
The play takes place in Verona, Italy in the 1500’s while the movie takes place in Verona beach California in the 1990’s. One of the things that makes it more modern is the use of guns instead of swords. It would have been weird for the characters walking down the streets with swords in the modern time of the movie, so I believe this detail fits well. Another difference is that the party at the Capulet house was more of a dress up party rather than the masquerade ball they have in the play. I think that some of these differences make both movie and play look like a joke and not a serious romance like Shakespeare most likely intended it to be. Romeo is one of the two main characters in Romeo and Juliet. The Romeo in the play is portrayed as a dramatic, ambitious teenager in love. The Movie did a great job representing this, but it also brought in an overly crazy side of Romeo. He is a Montague who falls in love with Juliet quickly, and those two are kept the same between the two versions. Romeo also kills himself in both and says, “Thus with a kiss, I die” (V.iii.