Baz Luhrmann

created by the words of Fitzgerald's, as he breathed life into the characters with his pen and parchment. Baz Luhrmann took the characters that Fitzgerald’ created and gave them new life within his film adaptations of The Great Gatsby. At its core the book and the reincarnated movie are essentially the same in terms of plot and major themes, The presentations of the events differ. For example, Baz Luhrmann's take on the setting is vibrant and full of colour. The music that is played, as well as…

mention all the symbolism in this one chapter that you just can’t miss, and if it is adapted into a movie it must be well executed, for if not the movie will fail to bring purpose to the book. In the 2013 film version of The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann the scene where Gatsby and Daisy meet again at Nick's house should be exactly like the book. We should feel the emotion and understand the tone of the scene, and I believe in this film version there are parts of the scene that live up…

was written by the famous author, William Shakespeare. In 1968 Franco Zeffirelli directed his own version of Romeo and Juliet. Then in 1997 Baz Luhrmann directed another version of the play. The two films have a lot in common, but at the same time they both have many differences. Like the costumes, props, scenes and setting. In the 1997 film directed by Luhrmann, it shows the way people live in the present days. In the prologue we see that the clever use of music, montage of images, quick…

living in the past when he had the girl he wanted and was doing whatever it took to get things back to how they were. One last character is a woman named Myrtle, she was a mistress of Tom Buchanan and loved by him. The movies The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann and Midnight In Paris all have a similar character if not the exact same as The Great Gatsby novel. In the movie of The Great Gatsby the characters are the exact same as the novel of The Great Gatsby. The character of Nick Carraway is…

Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, compared to the film (2013) made, is most unlike the 2013 adaptation, directed by Baz Luhrmann. The novel and the 2013 adaptation is most differentiated by the way Luhrmann presents the characters, which is in his own perspective of how he depicted Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and Myrtle Wilson. In the beginning of the film (2013), Luhrmann has Nick talking to a therapist about how he felt about everyone. While in the book, Nick is only giving his opinion…

spotlight to a very different piece of music compared to the traditional pieces which are played by the Ballroom Dancing group. Luhrmann uses Doug’s secret dancing sessions by himself to help us understand that Doug does belong in his own world of Dance, away from the conformity, and rules of the superficial world of the Ballroom Dancing Federation. We are positioned by Luhrmann to draw a liking towards characters Scott, Fran and Doug. As they rebel against the conformity of the Ballroom…

Baz Luhrmann’s film Romeo & Juliet (1996) is a modern day re-telling of Shakespeare’s play of the same name. However, Luhrmann choses to re-tell the tale in a modern day context, setting the tale over 400 years after its original published date. Although, Luhrmann decided to keep the language and dialogue style of the original tale. This modern/vintage fusion used by Luhrmann was met with positive to mixed reviews. Mrs Maslin of the New York Times found the style of language to be inconsistent…

to societies of any era. Shaped by the postmodernist defiance of antecedent convictions, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet acts as medium for his indictment of human dissatisfaction — ceaseless and inevitable. A product of the subversive 1996, the film criticises humanity’s natural inclination toward idealism and hedonism, exhorting viewers to forsake egocentrism and instead hold morality as precedence. Luhrmann marries concerns, both non-specific and specific to his context, through weighting the…

Olwethu Masiza 16013255 Question 2 : Filmic devices This essay will discuss the different filmic devices in Romeo and Juliet, namely extreme close-up; low angle shot; tilt; zoom and flashback, and why Baz Luhrmann has chosen to use each one of these filmic devices. Luhrmann has chosen to use all these different camera shots so that he creates a meaningful scene full of mixed emotions. Extreme close up is when the camera zooms in very closely to a particular subject, for example, the…

Throughout the final scene of the Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann used sound and music of nature and Nicks voice portrayed his sadness for the passing of his friend Gatsby. The scene begins with the mysterious and profound cry of the breeze traveling through the desolate home of Gatsby. The sound highlights the sense of emptiness and misery felt by Nick for Gatsby’s death. The breeze sounds symbolized the desolate and Gatsby’s empty home, but also the sadness left inside Nick’s heart because the…