Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeares Play Romeo and Juliet and the M

Comparing and Contrasting Shakespeares Play Romeo and Juliet and the Movie Version . . . Emblems of mafia gang-land hostility guns, fast cars, and tattoos . . . (Walker 5) are not the usual images name in a Shakespearean play. Baz Luhrmanns 1996 production of William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is. . . told in a setting . . . that is modern and yet unfamiliar a world where the youth might conceivably always go armed a world where love suffer still be so thwarted and endangered where the innocence and passion of the protagonists can be so out of step with the current mood. (Hamilton 3)The original drama and the 1996 movie production have more differences than similarities that can be seen in equivalence them both. The scenes and the language in the movie are easier to understand than reading the play because of the modern day setting and the conversational use of Shakespeares language. In the movie, the hatred that is held between the Montague and Capulet families and leads to th e destruction of the love that is found between Romeo and Juliet is portrayed more clearly than in the play. The feud between the two families can be seen in the characters and the scenes compared in the play and the movie. In the first act of Shakespeares play, Tybalt, who is a member of the Capulet family, is upset at Benvolio, who is a member of the Montague family. Benvolio has drawn his sword in order to appreciation the peace (Shakespeare 1.1). Tybalts hatred toward the Montague family can be seen in the following passage to Benvolio What, drawn, and talk of peace I hate the word, / As I hate hell, whole Montagues, and thee . . . (Shakespeare 1.1). Samuel Taylor Coleridge suggests that Tybalt is a man abandoned to h... ...or Why William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet Deserves Another Look. Literature/Film Quarterly 28.2 (2000) 118-124. 7 April 2001. .Goldman, Michael. Romeo and Juiliet The Meaning of the Theatrical Experience. Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama. Princeto n, NJ Princeton UP. 1972. 33-44. Rpt. in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. second ed. Ed. J. A. Bryant, Jr. New York Penguin Putnam, 1998. 160-170.Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. Shane Weller. New York Dover P, 1993.Walker, Elsie. Pop Goes the Shakespeare Baz Luhrmanns William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. Literature/Film Quarterly 28.2 (2000) 132-139. 7 April 2001. .William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. Dir. Baz Luhrmann. Twentieth Century Fox. 1996.