Renaissance Theme with a Modern Touch
During the filming of Romeo and Juliet there were many bumps in the road, including a staff member getting abducted, but then traded for a $300.00 ransom, and the crew being plagued with illness the worst was when Baz Luhrmann Luhrmann reached a fever of 110 degrees. Through all of that Baz Luhrmann still created a great film by utilizing line cuts, and a modern setting to make the connection between the characters and the audience more sincere and strong. Baz Luhrmann utilizes a very modern setting as opposed to the old original traditional Renaissance setting in Romeo and Juliet when they first meet. Luhrmann’s setting is a very progressive club/ party that has drag queens, colorful lights, and loud …show more content…
The choices Luhrmann uses to modify the original makes an overall more earnest and serious feel of the scene. In Romeo and Juliet the characters all are equipped with swords, but in the modernized film, Baz Luhrmann decides to utilize guns in which has the word dagger inscribed on them. Luhrmann makes this decision to modernize and make the story his own, but keep a connection to the text. The way in which Luhrmann creates the fight scene is unlike the Romeo and Juliet text in which the start of the fight scene is very goofy and frolicsome. All though it is very modernized the, film does stay true to the beginning of the denouement of the fight scene, Mercutio died by a component of his own doing. Furthermore, Baz Luhrmann turns the fight between Romeo and Tybalt into a battle of true rage and emotion when they rammed their cars into each. Luhrmann made key changes to have the audience feel the true emotion and anger, the pain Romeo felt when Mercutio died. Luhrmann on the other hand additionally did stick to the true Shakespearean theme by making the script the original lines and keeping the political views and themes of the Renaissance
During the filming of Romeo and Juliet there were many bumps in the road, including a staff member getting abducted, but then traded for a $300.00 ransom, and the crew being plagued with illness the worst was when Baz Luhrmann Luhrmann reached a fever of 110 degrees. Through all of that Baz Luhrmann still created a great film by utilizing line cuts, and a modern setting to make the connection between the characters and the audience more sincere and strong. Baz Luhrmann utilizes a very modern setting as opposed to the old original traditional Renaissance setting in Romeo and Juliet when they first meet. Luhrmann’s setting is a very progressive club/ party that has drag queens, colorful lights, and loud …show more content…
The choices Luhrmann uses to modify the original makes an overall more earnest and serious feel of the scene. In Romeo and Juliet the characters all are equipped with swords, but in the modernized film, Baz Luhrmann decides to utilize guns in which has the word dagger inscribed on them. Luhrmann makes this decision to modernize and make the story his own, but keep a connection to the text. The way in which Luhrmann creates the fight scene is unlike the Romeo and Juliet text in which the start of the fight scene is very goofy and frolicsome. All though it is very modernized the, film does stay true to the beginning of the denouement of the fight scene, Mercutio died by a component of his own doing. Furthermore, Baz Luhrmann turns the fight between Romeo and Tybalt into a battle of true rage and emotion when they rammed their cars into each. Luhrmann made key changes to have the audience feel the true emotion and anger, the pain Romeo felt when Mercutio died. Luhrmann on the other hand additionally did stick to the true Shakespearean theme by making the script the original lines and keeping the political views and themes of the Renaissance