Baz Luhrmann

adaptations of “Romeo and Juliet” but i will be comparing the 1968 film which was directed by Franco Zeffirelli starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as romeo and juliet and the second film adaptation i will be comparing is the 1996 film directed by Baz Luhrmann starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes as romeo and juliet. The first key difference i would like to touch on is the setting and characters. In the Zeffirelli adaptation based film the characters are walking…

until now. The updated Luhrmann movie best represents Shakespeare's play for the present day viewer as it is modernized with more advanced equipments like guns, helicopters and cars which also makes it more comprehensible. Luhrmann uses modernization throughout the movie while preserving Shakespearean language to capture the audience's attention. By adding in small contradicting details, Luhrmann was able to reproduce a satisfying piece of drama. William Shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann portray the…

The “Romeo and Juliet” 1996 film co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, is the adaptation from the William Shakespeare’s Play “Romeo and Juliet” of late 1590’s. The screenplay is written by Craig Pearce in early 1990’s. The success of adaptation depends on how the director visualize through his ideas. Baz Luhrmann has cut the dialogue by almost one-third but its essence has been kept intact (Gyde, July 1997). The costume has been designed well to illuminate an important element of the…

the ending of the Luhrmann film. Juliet talks to Romeo before he dies, saying “Romeo. What’s here? Poison. Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after” (Luhrmann). In the original play-text, Romeo dies before Juliet wakes up, and Friar Lawrence also comes to the tomb. Juliet asks, “where is my lord? / I do remember well where I should be, / And there I am. Where is my Romeo?” (V.3.153-155). These differences show that the ignorance of both Romeo and Juliet in the Luhrmann film make the…

Contrasting the similarities and differences of Romeo and Juliet film adaptations by Baz Luhrmann (1996) and Franco Zeffirelli (1968). Although both films told the same story the time period was set in unlike eras, this led to the different levels of violence portrayed in the separate films especially when it came to Mercutio’s death, as well as how the dialogue and acting that affected the love showed within Romeo and Juliet in the balcony scene and how the two directors interpreted the famous…

“While Luhrmann’s film does offer a visually-pleasing adaptation of The Great Gatsby, his overall reading of the novel is too simplistic and misses the more nuanced arguments from the primary text. True, Luhrmann has a wonderful eye for visuals, but it comes at too great a cost for the source material he adapts. Basically, he is too concerned with creating pretty pictures instead of letting the language and story work on their own merit. Luhrmann’s emphasis on creating striking visuals forces…

Scott Fitzgerald is more than its film version by Baz Luhrmann because it greatly portrays the major themes and the original ideas of the story. The moral corruption of the wealthy and some poor characters, class difference, and the opposite side of the American Dream are more efficiently illustrated in the…

on being the 1974 version by filmmaker Jack Clayton and 2013 version by filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. Those are the two most important adaptations that have gained worldwide success. The filmmakers for both versions of the film interpreted The Great Gatsby in their own way. While watching both of the films I noticed the different interpretations of the Great filmmakers through visuals, actors, and sound. Both Baz Luhrmann…

should kill Gatsby and that he deserves it, this is another example of Baz Luhrmann dramatizing the movie to make it more interesting to watch. In the movie, Tom explicitly told Wilson that he should kill Gatsby and that he deserves it. This is another example of Baz Luhrmann dramatizing the movie to make it more riveting to watch. These changes made the movie more interesting and dramatic much like the other changes that Baz Luhrmann made to the original…

Lurhmann’s modern day techniques used in the red curtain trilogy. Baz Luhrmann is known for his unique specific style that is used in his Red Curtain Trilogy, this trilogy includes the films The Great Gatsby, Strictly Ballroom and Romeo and Juliet. Luhrmann has taken popular, well-known stories such as Romeo and Juliet and used modern day techniques to create a film that both excites and enthralls audiences while still putting across the story of pain and loss. He succeeds in doing this by using…