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To what extent do you feel Baz Luhrmann is successful in making Romeo & Juliet accessible to a modern audience?
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To what extent do you feel Baz Luhrmann is successful in making Romeo & Juliet accessible to a modern audience? In this essay I am going to write about how successfully Baz Luhrmann has made his film Romeo and Juliet accessible to a modern audience. Baz Luhrmann uses Shakespeare's authentic text combining it with a modern setting. This combination attracts the off spring of the modern age. That is the reason why Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet has been successful. It has made a profit of 11.133 million dollars, reached the top of box-office and has been awarded quite a lot of Oscars. The opening scene of the film shows a newsreader reading Shakespeare's original prologue. At this point the camera zooms in as the newsreader reads the prologue in a news form. This is effective because the screen then seems to focus on the newsreader more and so the audience pays...
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