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While this is seen, the prologue is said. It is said slowly, and the voice is soft, as if it is going to be a peaceful fairytale story.
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Baz Luhrmann has shown straight away that this is a modern adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and this film heavily involves religion, only within the introduction.
Compared to the Zefirelli film, it is almost the opposite. Luhrmanns prologue leaves and impact that it is going to be a dramatic movie.
Zefirellis is very traditional and calm, set out like a fairytale. It also goes straight into the first scene, while Luhrmanns introduces and names the characters.
As soon as the Zefirelli prologue has finished, it goes straight to scene one, which is later in the day, at the market. The Capulets are shown walking and talking. They are wearing red and yellow colour coded costumes with codpieces. The Montagues are wearing darker colours, dark blue and black. Baz Luhrmanns characters are the opposite. The first group you see in ‘Romeo + Juliet’ are the
Montagues, who are wearing bright Hawaiian shirts in a yellow car.
When the Capulets enter the scene, they are the ones wearing dark clothes in a blue car. The Capulets seem to be better dressed, making them seem superior and wealthier than the Montagues. In Franco
Zefirellis film, the Capulets (in bright colours) are talking and …show more content…
Tybalt seems to be the ‘bad guy’ in each of the films, but especially Luhrmanns. In Luhrmanns film he wears dark clothes, carries two guns, wears religious waistcoats (picture of Jesus on it) and his boots have steel heels. He is the one who wont let any Montague annoy him, or deal with him, without revenge. When Tybalt steps out of the car in the petrol station, the music changes from the Montagues rock to a Western theme. This music relates the scene to a Western face-off. In Zefirellis film, the scene seems very raced before the fighting begins. There is a hurried argument, with a lot of the script cut out, before Tybalt trips up a Montague and chaos breaks out. It turns into a massive swashbuckling swordfight, which was popular in films around the time it was made. The fight involves many more members of the two families than Luhrmanns, who uses five from each family. In the modern version, Luhrmann couldn’t use swords because it would ruin the effect, so instead he used guns named ‘Swords’, which was a clever improvisation. Each of the scripts in the films was altered. Franco Zefirelli was known to have cut a lot of the original script out of his
Baz Luhrmann has shown straight away that this is a modern adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and this film heavily involves religion, only within the introduction.
Compared to the Zefirelli film, it is almost the opposite. Luhrmanns prologue leaves and impact that it is going to be a dramatic movie.
Zefirellis is very traditional and calm, set out like a fairytale. It also goes straight into the first scene, while Luhrmanns introduces and names the characters.
As soon as the Zefirelli prologue has finished, it goes straight to scene one, which is later in the day, at the market. The Capulets are shown walking and talking. They are wearing red and yellow colour coded costumes with codpieces. The Montagues are wearing darker colours, dark blue and black. Baz Luhrmanns characters are the opposite. The first group you see in ‘Romeo + Juliet’ are the
Montagues, who are wearing bright Hawaiian shirts in a yellow car.
When the Capulets enter the scene, they are the ones wearing dark clothes in a blue car. The Capulets seem to be better dressed, making them seem superior and wealthier than the Montagues. In Franco
Zefirellis film, the Capulets (in bright colours) are talking and …show more content…
Tybalt seems to be the ‘bad guy’ in each of the films, but especially Luhrmanns. In Luhrmanns film he wears dark clothes, carries two guns, wears religious waistcoats (picture of Jesus on it) and his boots have steel heels. He is the one who wont let any Montague annoy him, or deal with him, without revenge. When Tybalt steps out of the car in the petrol station, the music changes from the Montagues rock to a Western theme. This music relates the scene to a Western face-off. In Zefirellis film, the scene seems very raced before the fighting begins. There is a hurried argument, with a lot of the script cut out, before Tybalt trips up a Montague and chaos breaks out. It turns into a massive swashbuckling swordfight, which was popular in films around the time it was made. The fight involves many more members of the two families than Luhrmanns, who uses five from each family. In the modern version, Luhrmann couldn’t use swords because it would ruin the effect, so instead he used guns named ‘Swords’, which was a clever improvisation. Each of the scripts in the films was altered. Franco Zefirelli was known to have cut a lot of the original script out of his