In the play Romeo and Juliet', this theme is love. ... This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. ... In Act 1 scene 1, Romeo even says here's much to do with hate, but more with love, showing great insight in describing the feud between the families as a form of love, after all there is a fine line between love and hate. ... Juliet is meant to be accompanying Paris and Romeo would be killed if discovered. ... A lot can also be conveyed to the audience through costume, light and sound, which have to be imagined when merely reading the play. ...

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"I'm through with Romeo and Juliet and boy meets girl, and on to Macbeth and man kills beast." ... These being Strictly Ballroom, Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge. ... Shakespeare was given new meaning and re-invented again with the younger generation through Romeo and Juliet, taking away the perception of Shakespeare as being a boring English class siting and reading through plays, and the idea of a musical film was re-invented in Moulin Rouge. ... This factor is highly relevant in Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet. ... This can also be applied to Romeo and Juliet in more that one w...

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Whether the characters look as expected by all or not seems almost irrelevant so long as they retain their relationships and attitudes throughout the film, in line with the book. ... This idea has been recently portrayed in a film version of Romeo and Juliet, where the action takes place in the present day, with the use of guns as opposed to swords and the protagonists getting around in cars. ... What is being presented is still a film version of Romeo and Juliet; it is just being presented in a different way. ... Even in the former, it is a matter of opinion; it is a question of where the ...

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Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. ... Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. ... When reading through the play, the reader may find it ...

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Turning from horror to incense after the death of his mother and another unpleasant encounter with lower caste twins undergoing "death conditioning-, John attempts to liberate the workers in line for their daily ration of the euphoric, hallucinogenic panacea for all things unpleasant, soma. ... John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. ... When being read Romeo and Juliet, Helmholtz could not help from laughing hysterically at the Juliet's plea to her mother to delay the marriage to Paris because of the death of Tybalt. .....

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