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How does Baz Luhrmann make Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet more accessible to a teenage audience? How does the opening scene of the film attempt to do this?
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How does Baz Luhrmann make Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet more accessible to a teenage audience? How does the opening scene of the film attempt to do this? The most stereotypical teenage response to Shakespeare is usually very negative. This is usually due the language being so different from our own, along with the difference in time. Baz Lurhmann changes all of this in his version of 'Romeo and Juliet'. Where he alters every aspect of the play modernizing it, apart from the original main dialogue. His large Hollywood silver screen adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is the only of its kind which keeps the original script. This unusual combination of modern imagery and 16th century speech is likely to be a key reason for the films huge success. The target audience for this film can be seen as two possible groups. The most obvious is that he has targeted the teenage audience,...
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