Scarica romeo + Juliet review e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Romeo +Juliet: Brave experiment that worked extremely well ⭐ 8/10 There isn't much to say about the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' as it is probably the most famous love story written, but surprisingly this movie offers a contemporary re-telling of the classic love story. The director took a whole new approach to film the Shakespeare's classic setting it in the modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, represented as warring business empires (whose affairs are not narrated by Shakespeare, but the contemporary storyteller is tv). Their children meet and fall in love, but have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. Even though Juliet’s father is arranging his daughter’s marriage to the Governor's son, the two fall in love and they marry in secret but their love is fated to be engulfed (submerged) in the violence of their surroundings. The film reinvents the story, it is set in modern times, you see cars, guns, helicopters, ambulance, express courier services etc A few plot details were shifted: Juliet awakens just as Romeo poisons himself and the two see each other before he dies and she takes his handgun and commits suicide. Additionally some of the names were also changed. Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and Lady Capulet were given first names as opposed to the Shakespeare original where their first names are never mentioned, Friar Lawrence became Father Lawrence. Most notably director has brought a new twist to this old story; setting it in the present day and replacing swords with guns, but references to 'swords' continue to work as we are shown that they are makes of guns The movie retains the original Shakespearean dialogue, so the author rather than simply changing the dialog to modern usage, gave the text its due. Surprisingly the Shakespearian language doesn't seem out of place, old fashioned terms (dagger or sword) are set in modern ways. This works incredibly well, and makes the movie so much better than regular language would. The story seems richer, more epic and timeless. The first 10 minutes pass by before you are allowed to settle into the film and see how it plays. The actual opening is a great introduction and works well - with the heavy music, sweeping cameras and the introduction to the main players. However the confrontation between the Capulet boys and the Montague boys at a petrol station risked losing the plot, but then the movie almost never stops for a breath At first I thought this would have been pointless adaptation, it would have been difficult to follow and it wouldn’t have worked for a Shakespearean play, because if you bring the stories of Shakespeare into the modern day, you also need to update the dialogue to fit into modern day. But after watching it I can say that it is such a perfect adaptation, it gave me new perspective on this play and made me finally appreciate it, because it was really involving. I think that this movie helps young people to understand it more since it is in a different setting, but still traditional because it has the same dialogue as the original Shakespeare play. The director made this choice to unite Shakespeare fans who watch the film because of its original lines and those who would have liked to see the story reinvented. if the director had not changed the setting of the story keeping the original lines the film would have been boring. While if he had changed the setting and updated the dialogues making them like those of our day then the story would have lost part of its original charm.
