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How does Baz Luhrmann create interest for the audience in the beginning of his film version of Romeo and Juliet?
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How does Baz Luhrmann create interest for the audience in the beginning of his film version of Romeo and Juliet? "Romeo and Juliet," is a play written by William Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century "in fair Verona." This is an ultimate love story between the children of two powerful enemies, "both alike in dignity..." These two households bear an "ancient grudge." Within this hate "Romeo and Juliet's" love cannot survive, and they are driven by this hate to death. Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo & Juliet is an audacious and stunning. He did this by using many different techniques, and even though he keeps the original dialogue, he changes many classic features of the play to give this modern feel to it. He changed horses to cars, Swords to guns and villages to cities and several other things. The film starts with a TV reporter broadcasting news to citizens in Verona Beach....
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