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An Analysis and Comparison of the Opening Sequences from the Films of Romeo and Juliet Directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhruman
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An Analysis and Comparison of the Opening Sequences from the Films of Romeo and Juliet Directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhruman Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy about two lovers, but they cannot be together because they are from families who are constantly feuding. In the end, both Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, and the families are united. Franco Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet came out about 30 years before Baz Luhruman's, which came out in 1997. Zeffirelli decided to set his film in the original period that William Shakespeare set it in, the 13th/14th century. He set the whole film around his own portrayal of life at that time in Verona, Italy, which was also the setting Shakespeare had used. Luhruman produced a more futuristic version of Romeo and Juliet, based in present times on Verona Beach, but in both movies Shakespeare's...
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