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To what extent do you agree with the statement about Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet', that, 'if you enjoy the service station scene at the beginning, you will enjoy the rest of the film'?
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To what extent do you agree with the statement about Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo and Juliet', that, 'if you enjoy the service station scene at the beginning, you will enjoy the rest of the film'? The story of Romeo and Juliet originated as a play, written by William Shakespeare in Elizabethan England. A reasonably well-known movie director, Baz Luhrmann decided to take on the challenge of making a contemporary version of the play and to try and answer the question, "if Shakespeare were alive today, how would he make a movie?" Luhrmann's aim throughout the whole project was the work with the original script, which was written in difficult Elizabethan English, and find a visual means of bringing some of the more obscure references to life. He realised that contemporary audiences do not rely on spoken word alone but on the directness of film to show what is being described. The team that Luhrmann...
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