I've been studyin' Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann (FANTASTIC director!) for my film English class, n' i gotta say, it's an amazin' film. I saw it many many years ago but i didn't realise how great it was till i watched it again for the first time a few weeks back. It maintains a lot of the dialogue from the original play, while adaptin' it to a modern day world. Personally, i think Baz Luhrmann did a great job creatin' this film. Thoughts? Anyone else seen it?
My English 1 Honors class watched it last semester. I thought it was great, but everyone else thought it was so stupid.
I appreciated the effort but there were a few things that I really, really didn't like about it. Certain decisions such as the E scene, the portrayal of Mercutio, and the casting kinda killed it for me. I think I was too young when I first watched it, maybe if I saw it again I'd like it more but my perceptions the first time through were not good.
We saw this for our English class not that long ago..I thought it was good in some respects...like the casting I thought were good, But some parts were cut, werent they?
i didn't think very highly of it, kinda odd that they called their guns "swords". and i just didn't think the dialouge fit very well with the modern setting.
A lot of the original text was cut or altered, such as the final death scene was altered drastically. The runnin' time would've been incredibly long if he created the film by Shakespeare's original plan. Obliviously fans of the play will be disappointed with the film, but in terms of film language i think Baz Luhrmann did a great job in a modern adaptation of it. @ Evil_man - I think the choice to use the original dialogue n' integrate it into the film was far better than creatin' one from scratch. It was different seein' dialogue like that in a modern settin' n' it's perhaps one of the reasons i liked it.
I was not dissapointed one bit, I just noticed some parts were cut to make it shorter, Though the death scene made alot of people mad, it seemed so fake how Juilet woke up as he was about to drink it..she could of stopped Romeo. I also like the part where she went to Frair Larunce and pointed the "Sword" at him, it seemed so dramatic
