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Romeo and Julietcompare two different Romeo and Juliet films on how well they represent the text.
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Romeo and Juliet coursework. This piece of coursework aims to compare two different Romeo and Juliet films on how well they represent the text. One of the films is directed by Franco Zeffirelli and set in the past, whilst the other was directed by Baz Luhrmann and is set in the modern era. Over the course of my comparison I will be looking at the way each production introduces and sets the scene. How the different characters are portrayed within the setting and how well each version represents the original text. The Baz Luhrmann version starts the production with a newsreader on a television in the background. The television starts to move closer to the audience and the newsreaders speech gets louder. The newsreader is reading the prologue in Shakespearian language and in a manner that alerts the audience and makes them listen to what she is saying. In this...
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