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How Does Baz Luhrmann Create A Modern Version
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How Does Baz Luhrmann Create A Modern Version Of Shakespeare's Famous Play? Explore the Technique By a Close Study of the Opening Sequence of the Film Baz Luhrmann produced a version of Shakespeare's famous play 'Romeo and Juliet' in 1996. The play has been brought into the modern day and is set in a fictional American city called 'Verona Beach' linking back to the original setting of Verona in Italy. Baz Luhrmann brings Shakespeare's play into the modern day by using a variety of camera techniques, sound and colour. He also modernised the characters, costumes and props. The only thing remaining in the past is the traditional Shakespearean language. The film starts with the famous prologue of 'Romeo and Juliet' with a newsreader saying the famous lines "a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" the camera zooms in closer and closer to the TV screen until it fills the whole screen....
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