Romeo And Juliet Movie Vs Play

Many classic plays and novels have been transformed into movies. Often times, audiences will complain that the movie did not capture what went on in the book and that it added unnecessary scenes while cutting vital ones out. However, sometimes a film will perfectly portray a book and will capture all of the novel’s important aspects. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is an excellent play that is dramatic, comedic, and romantic. It perfectly exhibits the emotions someone would want to feel while reading a novel (in this case, a play). The play has been adapted into many different movies, each with their own version of the heartbreaking story. I watched Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, and I must admit, there were a few key differences

When people think of Romeo and Juliet, do they think of guns and powerful companies or swords and feuding families? Most people think about the Shakespearean classic from medieval times. However, is Baz Luhrmann’s modern film version really that different? When looking at the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet, the film shows striking similarities and differences to the original in terms of the time period shift, the details, and the visible themes.

Knowing this Romeo goes to the burial tomb to see Juliet, with him he meets Paris. Paris knows Romeo as a killer and draws on Romeo, but Romeo slains Paris. When he finds Juliet he sees her cheeks are red and her body is warm, almost full of life. Little does Romeo know she is about to wake up due to the sleeping potions 48-hour time limit. But before she wakes, Romeo makes the bold, braving decision to be with her and drinks poison laying next to her while dying.

William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest playwrights of all time. One of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet, written around 1595 was remade into a modern day movie. The movie, Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann, was released in 1996 and represented the story of Romeo and Juliet. There are many old stories that have been remade into modern day versions. An example is the Bible which has been remade into many different movies including The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. DeMille and The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson. The original story Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and their families’ feud ends with death of Romeo and Juliet. The play Romeo and Juliet by William

A story of love, cut short by a small part of unfortunate and sad death, as this is the story of Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, there are two lovers that cannot be together because of their families past. In current day, the rivalry has nothing to do with Romeo and Juliet themselves, as it is just an unfortunate coincidence that forbids the two from being with each other. In the play, Romeo at times acts very impulsively to fill his desires, and get what he wants. However, through doing this, he only fixes a situation immediately, and does not fix any issues in the long run of things.

At the end of act three Juliet found out Romeo was banned from Verona and she was grief stricken. Her parents then went back to the marriage to Paris,yet Juliet didn't love Paris, she was already engaged with Romeo. Juliet took the matters in her own hands and made it worse by going to friar Lawrence to seek advice. As Juliet talked to the Friar he gave her advice to drink a potion that he had made that will make her into a deathlike state that lasted for about two days, the instructions that he told Juliet was to go home and take the potion, parents or her nurse will notice and put her in their family tomb,finally when she awakes she will run off to Romeo and live happily. Juliet was worried for this idea and began to think over this process “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time Romeo come to redeem me?...”

Since Friar John did not deliver the message, Romeo's messenger heard Juliet had died and Romeo went to see her. When he reached her tomb, he killed himself by drinking a potion. When Juliet awoke with Friar Laurence, who then left without her, and she stabbed herself. Some people might say Friar Laurence is not at fault for this because he might have thought she was following, but he still should have checked. Since the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Juliet had been extremely emotional and overdramatic.

Unfortunately everything does not go as planned, while the friar was on his way to send the note to Romeo instead of Romeo being informed of her fake death,he actually believes she has passed away. After this, he goes to an apothecary to receive a poisonous concoction he can lay his dead body he is needed in a place of filled with people who are severely ill and stays in quarantine. Romeo believes Juliet is dead and goes to an apothecary to get a poison concoction so he can die and lay next to Juliet. The moment he was in her tomb he poisons himself,such a tragedy Juliet wakes up to a dead Romeo.

Then, the Nurse walks in and tells Juliet about has happened. The Nurse stumbles over her words, and Juliet misinterprets and thinks that Romeo has taken his life. The Nurse fixes the situation, telling her that she knows where Romeo is hiding, and that she will talk to Romeo. In the third scene, Romeo is in Friar Lawrence’s cell. Romeo is very unhappy and sad and falls to the floor.

“Romeo is banned from Verona, which leads to him to seek out some pretty bad advice and guidance from Friar Laurence.” (Shmoop.com). The news Romeo receives is that Juliet is dead and in the Capulet's tomb Romeo does not know abou the fact he is supposed to be at Juliet's side when she wakes. Romeo is not aware of Juliet and Friar Lawrence's plan with the potion so in turn he takes his own life thinking Juliet is really dead. When Juliet wakes she finds Romeo dead next to her, she takes Romeo's dagger and stabbed it into her chest killing herself.

There was a feud going on between the two families that lead to a series of tragedies. In the play and movie of Romeo and Juliet there were two young teens. One was named Juliet, her mother was forcing her to marry a guy named Paris. However she did not want to marry Paris. Then there was Romeo who was from a different household; that happened to be enemies with the Capulet household. Romeo then goes to Juliet house party; they end up falling in love that night.While some differences between the movie and play are weapons,when Romeo sneaks out and when Juliet wakes up before romeo dies.The similarities are how Mercutio dies in both the play and movie. In Romeo and Juliet the two different families didn’t get along.

Juliet only loves Romeo so this drives her to go to Friar Laurence whereupon attempted suicide he prescribes a potion that will make her appear dead. Romeo and Juliet’s decision to be married starts a string of events including Juliet’s “death”, Romeo killing Paris, Romeo killing himself, and Juliet killing

In the infamous tragedy of the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, the theme and influence of death are poignantly prevalent through the course of the play. The use of death in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is portrayed through 3 instances of the deaths of 4 major characters, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt, in which the context of each death, are relative to the cause and development of their demise. Shakespeare capitalizes on the sophistication and complexity of death along with its varying impacts in relation to the context in which guides their tragedies. The death of Romeo is the result of his intense love and passion for Juliet as he refuses to exist in a world without his true love, “ The lean abhorrèd monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee, And never from this palace of dim night depart again.”

The balcony sceneis another difference and most romantic scene like in the text Romeo finds Juliet in the balcony after the party. In the film, Juliet just wonders at the pool below the balcony expressing her love Romeo where he stands right behind frightening her and they fall into the pool creating the romantic scene. In the film some characters have lesser roles than in the text. Mercutio death comes with stormy weather on-screen after being wounded by Tybalt with a broken glass. The stormy weather gives sad notes on the tragic death of Mercutio and evokes audience emotions.

Then Romeo is sad that Juliet is sad. He drinks the poison and dies. A boy and some watchmen see the blood of Paris and go get other people for help. Juliet wakes up from the potion that “friar sparkles” gave her. And she sees that Romeo is dead along with Paris.