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Compare and contrast the two versions of Romeo and Juliet. How is film language used to convey meaning in each case?
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Compare and contrast the two versions of Romeo and Juliet. How is film language used to convey meaning in each case? There have been various different adaptations of Romeo and Juliet made but in this essay I will be comparing two film versions, made with nearly thirty years in between them. The first was made was made in 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli and was set in a traditional, Shakespearean town named Verona, this place though is entirely fictional. Baz Luhrmann directed the second of the two movies in 1997. This version was again set in the fictional town of Verona but, instead, is placed in a very "American" and modern location, somewhat like Miami or Los Angeles. Zeffirelli's version stars Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, two unknown actors whom any audience, let alone a teenage one would have had any prior connection with. The Luhrmann version, however, starred...
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