“My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love is it to me That I must love a loathed enemy.” Romeo and Juliet ended in tragedy. The two star crossed lovers were doomed from the start but that didn’t stop them from being apart in life or death.
There’s no one that doesn’t know the fate of Romeo and Juliet. There are many adaptations of Romeo and Juliet like the 1968 version directed by Franco Zeffirelli’s and the 1996 version directed by Baz Luhrmann. The better version of the play, Romeo and Juliet, is Baz Luhrmanns film it was far more intriguing, it was easier to understand, and the actors had more emotion in this film than in the 1968 version.
The 1996 version was far more intriguing because of how they portrayed the story in a modern setting. The use of the original langue is cool to see in the modern version of Romeo and Juliet since we associate the original langue with the 1968 version. The way Baz Luhrmann portrayed Romeo and Juliet and how to make it into a modern version was cool to see because of the actors he casted. To be able to turn a classic story into a modern movie without twisting the settings and the use of the original langue is intriguing because of how Baz Luhrmanns imagined the whole concept of a modern Romeo and Juliet.
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Baz Luhrmann made the film easier to understand. The way it played out in a modern setting was way easier to understand because of how the actors portrayed the emotions of the characters. Luhrmanns version was not confusing to me since I thought Zeffirelli’s was confusing a bit since half the time I couldn’t understand what they were saying even though it had subtitles. It wasn’t confusing to me because of how the scenes played out.
When I was watching the film, I noticed how Luhrmann put a twist to the classic love story. Baz Luhrmann creates a movie that is more interesting to the modern viewers he aimed the movie at a younger age group, and he made it a lot more exciting and violent, he also set it in modern times to make it more believable to us younger audiences, and so that we younger audiences would appreciate it more, rather than ‘some old play’ as we might have put it.
The emotions that the actors put into each scene was cool to see. Clever techniques were used in Luhrmann’s film, for example when Tybalt dies, the camera tilts down to see the gun in Romeo’s hand, and stays there for an extended time for an emotional effect. Zefferelli casted new faces for his film while Luhrmann casted more popular actors. The way each actor put different emotions into each film was neat to see because of how Zefferelli and Luhrmann casted the actor. The raw emotion in some of the scene was interesting to see because of how Leonardo DiCaprio interpreted his feelings in the more emotional scenes such as when he kills Tybalt. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes portrayed the role of the two star crossed lovers brilliantly.
In conclusion the 1996 version was far more intriguing. I would recommend this version of the film to us younger audience since Luhrmann targeted it towards the younger viewers. The way it shows into a modern version of a classic story is interesting to see. I prefer this version over the 1968 version. Each film is equally good but this one is more eye-catching and I think everyone should watch this film over the 1968 version.
