Month: October 2016
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Matthew Moghadam: Film Review
Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew has been one of my favourite Shakespearean film adaptations since my youth. Be it Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s comedic and palpable portrayal of Katharina and Petruchio, the opulent costumes and set pieces, or deliverance of the very dialogue that pulled me in, I still…
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Simone Switzer: Film Review
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet(1996) is a modernized version of Shakespeare’s play while still staying true to his original dialogue. Luhrmann uses music and intense, erratic, editing to enhance the drama within the film giving the audience an uneasy feeling as they watch it all unfold. Up until Act 1, Scene 5, everything is crazy.…
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Cailin Murphy: Film Review
For my blog post in English 311, I have chosen to do a film review on Romeo and Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann. This post will focus on key scenes throughout the play and conduct an analysis on points within the scene compared to how it appears in Shakespeare’s original text to see what were…