Claire Danes

Claire Danes (Temple) seemed having a wonderful skill to behave a bit silly, but straight forward to her thought. The film viewed Temple’s face was as strange, funny, curious, and some time walking in funny way along with her strange thought. Her thought was also unusual. The film illustrated the picture in her mind that she connected to objects or words while she focused on. She acted a bit silly with funny face when her professor said “shoe.” Then the film viewed her connection with all type and kind of shoes that she had known. Also, she acted bit non-sensible way when many people were talking to her at the same time. She was upset, stress out easily and had a hard time to understand those people. Then she ran away from them. Instead, in “Invictus” story, Morgan Freeman (Mandela) acted more as a gentle man. He was simple and straight forward not as strange as Temple character. Most of the time when he communicated or met with people around him or in the public, he acted calmly and softly as a good talker, listener and thinker. The film did not illustrate the picture in Mandela mind as Temple one, but the film showed more the way he acted as he was a leader. Even Morgan Freeman did a wonderful job like Mandela, but Claire Danes looked harder to act like Temple. Claire Danes was more attractive to performed as Temple to show the audiences how autistic person behaved and…

Romeo and Juliet Movie Comparison The classic play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has been turned into a movie which are directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann. These two movies are similar and different in many ways and the directors of each play tried to put their spin on this classic play. There are many scenes which are different and similar but one is Act 5 Scene 3. One difference is that when Romeo came to find Juliet she was in a church while in the newer movie but…

Shakespeare vs Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo and Juliet 1996, did a wonderful job at turning the once classical play into a modern film that captivated and amazed the now demanding and uninterested audience. Luhrmann used techniques such as weapons, culture and props to keep the newer generation delighted and intrigued in the significantly monumental playwright of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare. In the 1996 film, Luhrmann used props such as new weaponry and…

Romeo and Juliet: Play-Text versus Movie Baz Luhrmann made some dramatic decisions, like adding characters, switching the roles of certain characters, and changing the meaning of certain lines when translating Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play-text into the 1996 full length film by the same title. In doing so, he made the movie more spontaneous and intense than a play-text can be, because as a film director he is able to utilize the flexibility of taking shot after…

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,…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

Over the years several different directors, including Luhrmann and Zeffirelli, have wrote Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in many different interesting ways. This story tells you about a boy and a girl who are in love but they come from two different families. They find each other and they get married. In the end out of the actions of her father, they die in each other arms. Luhrmann and Zeffirelli both present the play of Romeo and Juliet in different way to show the party scene, wedding scene…

If Romeo and Juliet can be summed up in one line, that line would be, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” which perfectly portrays the tragic romance of the two lovers (Shakespeare 33??) Many films since this line has been written have been created in honor of the famous play, such as Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann's. Zeffirelli's version of the story more accurately portrays Shakespeare’s original intent with setting, dialogue, and costumes identical to those imagined when one reads it. …

Romeo and Juliet Essay When comparing both the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli movie version of Romeo and Juliet with the 1996 Baz Luhrmann movie of Romeo + Juliet, I feel that the newer movie by Baz Luhrmann is more effective. It is more effective because it is able to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in a way that younger generations can understand. This 1996 version is easier to understand because people can relate to the movie as well as follow the storyline. Two specific…

In 1996, Baz Luhrmann defended his blockbuster film Romeo+Juliet, saying, "Everything that's in the movie is in the play. Violence, murder, lust, love, poison, even drugs that mimic death. - It’s all in there. It's just that we have come to associate productions of 'Romeo and Juliet' with a certain style”. It has been considered that perhaps Romeo+Juliet is an example of a triumph of style over content, in the worst possible way. However, it considers the universal truths from Shakespeare’s play…