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Analysis of Romeo and Juliet - Film by Bahz Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann uses a number of techniques in mise en scene in the film, 'Romeo and Juliet' to help the audience understand the story. The first scene brings us a news reporter placed within a television set. This suggests to us that this version of Romeo and Juliet will be more modern than most of Shakespeare's Medieval plays. The reporter reads the prologue, which summarizes the entire situation - this leads us to believe that everything has already happened and will be experienced in flashbacks. Afterwards, an extremely long shot of the city of Verona appears, first of all focusing on a statue of Christ in a defeated and downtrodden stance, telling us that perhaps religion has been betrayed or forgotten, and that maybe difference in religious beliefs is at the heart of the dispute. The camera zooms in and out...

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