Romeo and Juliet. Baz Luhrmanns film of Romeo and Juliet retells the history for modern audience. How effective is the film for modern audience?

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GCSE English – Romeo and Juliet


Baz Luhrmann’s film of Romeo and Juliet retells the history for modern audience. How effective is the film for modern audience?

In this essay I am going to explain in which ways the modern version of Romeo and Juliet is effective for modern audience. Many things have changed from the first version to the modern version, such as colours, sound-tracks, actors, costumes, cars instead of horses, and guns on the place of swords. How effective are all these changes in modern audience?

This version has a different start, confronts between Capulets and Montagues are talked about on the news as result of the death of two lovers from the respective families. The way the subject was brought up, through the television, was a good way to attract younger audience because television is seen by many young people and it let their have a little summary of the whole history.

Right on the start of the actual film there are various features very attractive to modern audience. The initial scenario starts with a lot of action and noise – loud rap music, gangs of teenager boys jumbling around on their cars. Their clothes were very colourful and typical wear by younger ones back on the 90’s (the epoch in which the film were realised). Breaking it into pieces we can see some effective ways in which the initial scenario attracted modern audience. Rap music is listened for lots of young people therefore to hear it at the start of a film captive their attention.

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The cars can also contribute for captivation of modern audience’s attention. They were fast and had different designs with many colours which call attention. Cars is a subject in which young people have knowledge about. The cars used during the film were very admired by youths by 90’s. To see these cars on a film could be enough to keep modern audience interested in the film.

Nowadays young people tend to have their own group of friends and socialise within their group. It is something that clearly happens in the film. There are two distinctive groups of young boys on ...

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