Most of these images have been taken in the air from a helicopter because the shots are either looking down on something or looking straight on at things that are not at ground level. These images could have possibly been taken from of a different Police helicopter. The images show what it is like for the public to live in Verona Beach. There was music in the background, the music used was operatic and created a dramatic effect to the images.
The next group of images are pictures of newspapers. On the first newspaper you can only see the picture on the page. The pictures background is the image of the statue stood betwwen the two buildings. The foreground of the picture is a picture of Juliet, a picture of her mother and a picture of her father in front of the Capulet building. The other part of the foreground is a picture of Romeo, a picture of his mother and another one of his father in front of the Montague building. This symbolises the love and hate between the families.
The second newspaper headline says Montague vs Capulet and has the same picture as the first, this also symbolises the love and the hate between the families.
The third newspaper says “anceint grudge,” this symbolises the length of time that both of the families have been fighting. The fourth newspaper says new mutany this shows that it is starting to break apart because people are getting tired of the figting.
The fifth newspaper says civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Only part of the picture can be seen . There are hands holding guns in the air. This means that the brawling is upseting the public and injuring them. There was no music in the background of the newspaper images, just the prolouge being read again in a narration style
Baz learnen opens the first scene by using the back of one of the Montagues servants head to show a tattoo of the family logo and name. This shows that everbody in the family is involved with the feud even the servants.
They arrive at a petrol staion called Pheonix gas, the Pheonix is a mystical creature representing fire. Around the Petrol Station there are a few signs saying add more fuel to your fire. This makes people suspicious that the petrol station is going to be set on fire.
The Montague’s were wearing brightly couloured beach clothes and a chain with a religious medallion on it. They all had short bright coloured hair or no hair. Their car is a yellow convertible.
The capulets were all wearing smart clothes such as leather jackets and waist coats. They were all wearing shoes. Tybalts shoes had spurs on this is to intimidate people. Abra was wearing a chain with a cross on and had a large silver earring in. The other servant had two earrings in one ear. Tybalt was wearing no jewellery, he was wearing a waistcoat with a picture of Jesus on it.Both gangs look religious because of the few items of jewelery they were wearing.
When the families started to fight the Montagues were clumsy Benvolio was disarmed straight away and Sampson was shooting at the cans of oil and the “add more fuel to your fire sign.” When he ran out of bullets the Montague servants drove off with the petrol hose still in the car and snaps it allowing petrol to leak everywhere. The two Capulet servants also drive off leaving Benvolio and Tybalt, Benvolio sees the petrol start to catch on fire and runs away.
The Capulets were elegant and swift at fighting, they were aiming in the right direction and were quick at moving around. The guns the family were using had the family name on the clip of bullets. The guns are ironically called swords because swords were used to fight in the original story.
The film is set in Verona Beach where gang culture is a problem. Most gangs seem to wear a certain colour or type of clothing to show what gang they belong to. This links to the film where all of the Montagues are dressed in bright beach clothes and the Capulets are dressed in suits.
Baz Learnen interprets the film wisely. He changes the original film to a new modern day film. He changes the use of swords to guns, but wisely the guns have sword written on them and are called swords in the movie. All the lines in the new modern day film are the same as in the original. He changes the two noble familes into two major buisnesses. He moves the original play from Verona in Italy to Verona Beach in the U.S.A, this helps to make the film more modern because there is a lot of history in Italy. He changed the clothes to modern day clothes from the original clothes worn at the time it was written. And he changed use of horses for travelling to the use of cars.
