Many people know the original poem of "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare and have learned the writer`s history. Some of the audiences have watched the Romeo and Juliet movies, but some people do wonder how the movie was directed. In the movie Romeo and Juliet in 1996, we get a glimpse of symbolism, character backgrounds, the setting`s history, and homosexuality. Director Luhrmann made the film to teach the audience about love or how the culture worked. The theme of reckless romance is portrayed in the classic eye-opening 1990`s film Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann through characterization and setting. People in the 1990`s had the biggest change with the internet from personal computers to emailing anyone on Earth. PCs turned into
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Claire Danes was a better actor for Juliet by reading her lines with more emotion than Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo`s lines. Luhrmann wanted them act in the movie as they fall in love in first sight by them checking out each other through the aquarium glass. To prove that they did fall in love Romeo stated, "Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night" (Martinelli & Luhrmann, 1996). Their scenes together would be silence, sweetness, kindness, rebirth, and pureness of water. The water representation that Luhrmann uses points out that the importance of their relationship remains in a dangerous, untrustworthy, and a terrifying background. The love couple blocks out the background and takes the audience into a fantasy world. During the pool scene with Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann leads his audience believe that they are sealed off from the rest of the world. Romeo is a rebel who likes smoking, love with no war, and likes to write poetry. He does not know who he is fighting against because Juliet`s gang is too big to handle. Juliet almost commits suicide with a gun because she did not want to marry Paris. When she wore her angel wing costume, it represented the angel of mercy and love. Romeo`s knight costume represented that he had many "medieval" obligations to go through in his violent world. Luhrmann does the plus symbol in the title …show more content…
His main message in his film was "lovers cannot escape the violence of their culture any more than we can evade the pressures of race" (Radel). He uses the elements of arrange marriage, race, sex, dispassion, and an attention grabber to keep his viewers engaged in the movie. His film helps his audience understand the history of racism and homophobia of the West culture. Romeo and Juliet are white, but originally Juliet was supposed to be Latin. Because of Romeo`s love for Juliet, it interrupts his male bonding with his friends. Mercutio`s death triggers the fatal action that leads to the couple`s suicides. It appeared that Mercutio was gay by flirting with Romeo and Luhrmann wanted to emphasize racial or sexual issues in the movie. This may hint for Mercutio`s love for Romeo when he stated to Tybalt, "And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow" (Martinelli & Luhrmann, 1996). Mercutio`s role might have been beneficial as the example of his friendship with Romeo that surpasses race or culture. The audience see the connection of sexuality and white purity that shuts out dark desires. With Romeo and Juliet relationship it shows that light can not exist without darkness and the it goes for the another way around too. Because there is no racial difference in Verona, Lahrmann divided the characters into their own family
Claire Danes was a better actor for Juliet by reading her lines with more emotion than Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo`s lines. Luhrmann wanted them act in the movie as they fall in love in first sight by them checking out each other through the aquarium glass. To prove that they did fall in love Romeo stated, "Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night" (Martinelli & Luhrmann, 1996). Their scenes together would be silence, sweetness, kindness, rebirth, and pureness of water. The water representation that Luhrmann uses points out that the importance of their relationship remains in a dangerous, untrustworthy, and a terrifying background. The love couple blocks out the background and takes the audience into a fantasy world. During the pool scene with Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann leads his audience believe that they are sealed off from the rest of the world. Romeo is a rebel who likes smoking, love with no war, and likes to write poetry. He does not know who he is fighting against because Juliet`s gang is too big to handle. Juliet almost commits suicide with a gun because she did not want to marry Paris. When she wore her angel wing costume, it represented the angel of mercy and love. Romeo`s knight costume represented that he had many "medieval" obligations to go through in his violent world. Luhrmann does the plus symbol in the title …show more content…
His main message in his film was "lovers cannot escape the violence of their culture any more than we can evade the pressures of race" (Radel). He uses the elements of arrange marriage, race, sex, dispassion, and an attention grabber to keep his viewers engaged in the movie. His film helps his audience understand the history of racism and homophobia of the West culture. Romeo and Juliet are white, but originally Juliet was supposed to be Latin. Because of Romeo`s love for Juliet, it interrupts his male bonding with his friends. Mercutio`s death triggers the fatal action that leads to the couple`s suicides. It appeared that Mercutio was gay by flirting with Romeo and Luhrmann wanted to emphasize racial or sexual issues in the movie. This may hint for Mercutio`s love for Romeo when he stated to Tybalt, "And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow" (Martinelli & Luhrmann, 1996). Mercutio`s role might have been beneficial as the example of his friendship with Romeo that surpasses race or culture. The audience see the connection of sexuality and white purity that shuts out dark desires. With Romeo and Juliet relationship it shows that light can not exist without darkness and the it goes for the another way around too. Because there is no racial difference in Verona, Lahrmann divided the characters into their own family