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