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How does Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet appeal to a younger audience?
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How does Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet appeal to a younger audience? When Baz Luhrmann decided to recreate 'Romeo and Juliet' first written by William Shakespeare, he wanted to make it appeal to a younger audience. He managed to do this by modernising the whole play for example by using cars instead of horses and guns instead of swords but he kept the same language of the original play. The film opens with a small television. Screen surrounded in darkness and then the television turns on, and it is a news report being read by a woman. She is reading out the prologue of the play in news report form. The screen flashes and we see the city of 'Fair Verona' and we hear the prologue again but this time it is read by a humble sounding man that we cannot see. We see newspaper heading that read sentences from...
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