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Baz Luhrmann's version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - review.
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Media Essay - Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann's version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is hugely appealing to the modern audience in various ways. In order to make it appealing to the modern audience, he (Baz Luhrmann had to re-write the play in a sexy, crazy and rambunctious way. Baz Luhrmann keeps the language from the original text but changes the setting and costumes as well as other various things. At the start of the film Baz Luhrmann uses a Television to grasp the audiences' attention. The size of the TV zooms outwards until it is almost the size of the frame itself. There is nothing but pitch black behind the TV so it doesn't distract the audience and leaves them to only concentrate on the events that are being read out. By using a newsflash to present the prologue, Baz Luhrmann makes the events seem factual. He also uses a female...
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