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Looking at the prologues of the two Romeo & Juliet movies, by Franco Zeffirelli (1968) and Baz Luhrmann (1997), it shows just how diverse the words can become by using different audio, technical, written and symbolic codes.
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ROMANCE: ROMEO & JULIET Assessment__ In feature films meaning is created through many ways other than just words. Looking at the prologues of the two Romeo & Juliet movies, by Franco Zeffirelli (1968) and Baz Luhrmann (1997), it shows just how diverse the words can become by using different audio, technical, written and symbolic codes. In Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet feature film, he has a softer, flowing approach to the prologue in all aspects compared with Luhrmann's production where most of the film codes represent violence, panic and destruction. The audio codes for Zeffirelli are calm and tranquil. The voice-over has a soft male's voice reciting the prologue almost like it is a bedtime story for children. He also does not narrate the entire prologue but omits the line "Is now the two hours traffic of our stage..." and the two lines following that. This makes it seem more movie-like...
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