Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"

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This paper examines director Baz Luhrman's modern day film version of "Romeo and Juliet." The writer of this paper states that the film version of Shakespeare's classic sets the story in a modernized Verona that bears no physical resemblance to the play's original setting and also goes on to note that in order to keep the film down to less than two hours, much of the original text had been cut. This paper compares the film version to the original text of the play and states the pros and cons of trying to improve upon a classic.

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"In the interests of keeping the movie less than two hours in length, many of the lines have been cut from the original version. What remains, then, is dialogue that is sufficient for transmitting the basic conflicts within each character. What is interesting, however, is to determine to what extent these lines have been trimmed and to observe that the story's emphasis shifts in the film version as a result of the revisions. First we see an enhancement of Romeo's character by virtue of the fact that his internal struggles are more pronounced than those of Juliet."

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