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A comparison of two film versions' treatment of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Act1 Scene 1 The two films of Romeo and Juliet I will be studying is Baz Luhrmann's film in 1997 and Franco Zeffirelli's in 1968 The Act 1 Scene 1 focuses on the beginning of the films and the comparisons between them. Franco's Zeffirelli's film won an academy awards for best cinematography and best costume design. Baz Luhrmann's film received an academy award nomination. At the beginning of Zeffirelli's film It starts straight with the prologue and the music is very calm, the camera zooms slowly towards the sun, and the narrator speaks in a slow deep voice this gives an impression of quite a hushed atmosphere to the scene. This is very dissimilar to Luhrmann's film Where It starts with a newsreader telling us of Verona. The music then starts and is very tense and the narrator...

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