Differences Between Romeo and Juliet the Play and the Movie Essay

Essay 3 When creating a film adaptation of a play, one must confront the various requirements of a new industry. For longer plays one may have to trim dialogue or may have to edit the text to make it more digestible to a more modern audience. Similarly, another aspect would be the director who is essentially a random variable as they all vary from person to person. Directors often face a dilemma while trying decide if they will try to make their work distinct or make few changes to stay true to…

This happens in both Pocahontas’ movie the first and the second. In the first movie, the time span seems to be a couple days when in reality it was at least a year. (Righter). The second time it shows Pocahontas being captured for what seems to be a night when in reality it was a year excluding the arranged…

The movie from 1974 tells the story differently, than the movie in 2013. The first movie was a classic movie. The old movie chose to tell the story more closely to the way the book told the story. The music they played was from the 2000’s which that type of music did not exist because it was the 1900’s . In the party there were girls hanging from the ceiling and show girls, none of that exist back in the day. The second movie was more of a flashback and the first…

going out to see a good movie or two. Before we do so we watch trailers and look at movie posters to see what these movies will be about. Movie posters are a good way to take a quick glance to capture the basis of a film before we pay to see it. Over the years we have progressively gotten better at capturing a movie through a single poster. In 1974, a very famous movie in the genre of drama and romance was release to the public. This movie is known as The Great Gatsby. This movie made 6.5…

Although the movie was entertaining It did not give the proper hysteria for the “Philosopher King”, Asoka’s legacy. When portraying such stories there needed to be a bit more dramatizing in certain segments of the film. For example in the very beginning when Chandragupta…

Zangwill updated the story of Romeo and Juliet to the love story between lovers from Russian Jewish and Russian Cossack families. In his play he illustrated that America was a place for new immigrants to end their old hatreds while they were being molded into being a sole entity : American. That was when the 1908 play The Melting Pot popularized the image of the United States as a melting pot. The metaphor "The melting pot" has been used to describe the differences in racial and ethnic…

(“William Shakespeare Biography”). He has written countless sonnets, poems and plays. Many of his works has been closely analyzed and some are still acted out at theaters. Plays such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are even known among people who have never studied Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s work has been around for hundreds of years and many films has are adaptations of his works. Macbeth is tragicomedy play that’s about of a general named Macbeth who gains and loses power; which…

if love was stronger than gravity?” (2012) The movie Upside down written and directed by Juan Solana’s. Juan Solana dose an outstanding job at telling a classic love story between two lovers from opposite worlds while giving it a strange yet appealing twist. This PG-13 dramatic romance was released in 2012 and was viewed and loved by many. Actors Kristen Dunset (Playing Eden) and Jim Sturgess (Playing Adam) come from very different worlds in the movie yet somehow are able to fall in love and…

¡Viva Cuba! is an outstanding masterpiece that debuted in 2005 and was awarded 7.1/10 on the International Movie Database. The story opens with the beginning of a beautiful friendship flowering between two children, Malu and Jorjito. Jorjito is a smitten boy from a lower social class who befriends Malu, a girl who was born into a much higher social class. Both of their mothers do not approve of their relationship due to the social standing, but pay no real attention for they [Malu and Jorjito]…

passionate about, like the comic books and music he lends her, not unlike the enthusiasm we see in Fangirl. I loved that Eleanor & Park shows how much an interest or hobby, no matter how silly or trivial it seems to other people, can make a real difference to someone’s life. So Eleanor & Park is about the romance, yes, but it’s also about pushing through life, just trying to make it better in any possible way you can.” –…