Month: June 2016
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3 Fair Verona’s: Comparisons of the Prologue and Act 1 Scene 1 in Romeo and Juliet
There are many adaptations of Shakespeare’s Rome and Juliet, but the three that seem to be the most known today are Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film, Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet, and most recently Carlo Carlei’s 2013 adaptation. I chose to focus on the prologues and the first scene of these three films because I was very impressed by…
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A Film Review of Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. That is no new news, and yet the statement gains a fresh connotation when it is made in light of (or indeed, when it is making light of) the 1996 Hollywood retelling: Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet. Taken out of its original Renaissance setting, modernization has not been kind…