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Movie Comparison - Romeo and Juliet

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Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets to ever walk this earth with his great playwrights and poems. Famous for many, one that includes Romeo and Juliet. He shall never be forgotten and to assure that Baz Luhrmann, the director of the "Romeo and Juliet  movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes has used his great skill with his intentions to modernize Romeo & Juliet. Baz created a fresher version to keep the audience of this generation entertained, yet allowing us to appreciate Shakespeare's marvelous work with a few twists here and there. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's tragic drama of the "star-crossed" young lovers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. In the movie Luhrmann has cut off a few lines and partial roles to make the movie how it is today. The lines that were cut off were replaced with visuals yet there are two major key events that were largely affected by the change which include when the two love birds first meet at the masquerade ball and second their death scene, the last moment they had together. The masquerade ball was taken at the Capulet's home. This scene includes the dramatic moment when the lovebirds first cross-eyes together. Luharmann had adapted many elements from the original play in the Capulet ball scene yet left out a few. In the book the scene where they first meet was at the masquerade ball. Where everyone wore masks, was formally dressed, there was peaceful music which expressed that it was a formal and high-class event. Where as in the movie it was adapted to party's nowadays, a wild party with costumes, alcohol and very loud music. In the book Shakespeare used dialogue to express each character but in the movie they used costume to express each character. Each costume leads you to understand their personality. The whole scene starts off when the Montagues enter the party uninvited. Setting in this scene was very important, in the movie the ball was help in an enormous mansion with very mode

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