Imagine that you are a film director. Explain how would you direct Act 1, Scene 5 (the feast scene) of Romeo and Juliet.

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By Ihtesham Haqani 11A    

Imagine that you are a film director. Explain how would you direct Act 1, Scene 5 (the feast scene) of Romeo and Juliet.

Act 1, Scene 5 is probably one of the most important scenes in the play. This scene is significant because Romeo catches sight on Juliet on the dance floor, and is immediately attracted to her. They both meet up in this scene. This scene also illustrates the beginning of Romeo and Juliet’s love. At the end of this scene the audience would be feeling broken hearted and sad, because they know that Romeo and Juliet are both going to die someway. The audience know this because it is mentioned in the prologue that “ A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” This means that Romeo and Juliet are going to die for each other.

In this scene Romeo gatecrashes the Capulet’s party at the Capulet’s house. The reason for him gate crashing this party is because he was in search of Rosaline. Romeo is seriously attracted to Rosaline. Instead of finding Rosaline, he notices Juliet and is attracted to her and deeply in love with her. This is called love at first sight. During this party at the Capulet’s house Tybalt spots Romeo gate crashing the party and gets really furious and irritated. This makes Tybalt very heated and so he wants to take revenge and kill Romeo for good. Lord Capulet does not allow Tybalt to kill Romeo because he does not want the party to get ruined. Another reason for Lord Capulet stopping Tybalt to kill Romeo is that Lord Capulet has heard that Romeo is a well-respected person. Romeo and Juliet get to kiss twice. Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet from her nurse and Juliet finds out that Romeo is a Montague. This makes Romeo think twice on what he is doing because the Capulat’s and the Montague’s are enemy families.

In this paragraph of my coursework I am going to select actors to play different characters in the film. I have chosen Robert De Nero for Lord Capulet because I think Robert De Nero fits in perfect with the character of Lord Capulet. Robert De Nero is a great actor and in most of his films he is a gangster and acts a very powerful and aggressive man. He has a very powerful personality and can act in many different ways. Robert De Nero is also about the same age as Lord Capulet as well. In the play Lord Capulet seem to speak in a very deep and loud tone.

“Am I the master here, or you?” This tells us that Lord Capulet is a well respected man and has a lot of power. An advantage for having Robert De Nero is that he would attract lots of people to the cinemas and is very famous around the world. Robert De Nero will suit the roll of Lord Capulet.

For the character of Tybalt I have selected Vin Diesel because he can act very aggressive and can fight decently as well. Vin Diesel has a big structure and is a very strong man. Vin Diesel usually stars in action films because he is a good entertainer. We know that Tybalt is a short-tempered person and loses his temper very quickly. We know this because when he notice Romeo gate crashing the party he says “This, by the voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier boy”. This shows us that Tybalt is a short-tempered person and wants to kill Romeo there and then.

For the character of Romeo I have chosen to use Enrique Iglasius because he is handsome, young and is attracted by women a lot. Enrique sings love songs and so I think he makes a good match for the character of Romeo. In most of his love songs he ends them by being a hero to a pretty girl. Similarly Romeo is a hero for Juliet but does not end to be. I think this is a good reason for using Enrique to play the roll of Romeo. Another good point is that in all of his songs he kisses a girl. Romeo is a very romantic and confident person because Juliet says to him that “ You kiss by th’ book” This tells us that Romeo is an expert at kissing similar to Enrique who is also an expert kisser. Romeo is also a very well respected person in Verona. We know this because Lord Capulet says “Verona brays of him to be a virtuous and well governed youth”. This tells us that Lord Capulet does not want to kill him because he knows what respect he carries.

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To act as Juliet I have chosen Victoria Beckham also known as posh spice because she looks quite young, she is very attractive and can act very realistically. Juliet is a very beautiful and pretty lady in Romeo’s eyes. We know this because Romeo says “Beauty too rich for use, for earth to dear”. In this speech he is trying to say that Juliet is too pretty and gorgeous for this world. “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows”. Here Romeo is saying that Juliet is very pretty and stands out in her family, as if she were ...

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