How do the directors Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann use presentation devices in the opening sequences of their films of "Romeo and Juliet"?

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Chris Butler How do the directors Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann use presentation devices in the opening sequences of their films of "Romeo and Juliet"?         Both films are based around the original script by Shakespeare, yet both directors have adapted the script slightly too go with their version of the film “Romeo and Juliet.”                                                                                Baz Luhrmann’s version of "Romeo and Juliet" begins with a shot of a television; this tells the viewers that the film is set in modern times, rather than Elizabethan England. The news reporter reads out the background history of the "ancient grudge." Whilst she reads, the camera slowly zooms in, as this happens shots of newspapers and magazine headlines flash up creating the feeling that the fights between the two families affect the whole city whilst this is happening
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there is some operatic music in the background which is brought into the foreground, so that we get the impression the film is going to be about a fight between two families that end in tragedy.                                                                The screen blanks, and the film starts. The Montague boys are driving up a motorway in a bright yellow customised 4x4 in the background you can hear hip-hop music, this makes the Montague boys seem fun, peaceful and approachable. They pull into a petrol station where the Cauplet boys are introduced. You instantly feel that the Capulet boys are the opposite of the Montagues, ...

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