dimarts, 7 de juny del 2016

Diferences book and film Romeo and Juliet

Question 1. SETTING:Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? 
The book take place in the italian Verona in the 16th century and in the film the story take place in a new version of an american Verona. Mantua in the film is the a camping and in the book is a little town.
Question 2.. IMAGERY: metaphors & images : Fire is a very important element in the story. It represent war, fight, violence and dead. We can see fire in all the violent scenes, like in the fuel station when there are a fight.
Water is the opositte of fire. Water represent quiet, peace, and love. We can see the water in the swimming pool scene, when Romeo meet Juliet and he told he loved her and also we can see water in the death of Tybalt. In this scene the water means peace, because he finally find the peace and his dead make the peace between the two famillys.
Question 3.. LANGUAGE. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator?
In the book all the characters speak in verse and in the film all the characters speak in verse unless the tv girl. There's no narrator in the book because is a play, and in the film the tv girl is the narrator of the begin and the end of the film.
Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY.What's the role of the costumes the characters wear? 
Juliet wer an angel costume who represent purity, inocence and love.
Romeo wear a an armor who represent fight, force and the enemy.
Lady Capulet wear Cleopatra costume who represent arrogance, power, and narcissism
Mercutio wear like a travesti and he represent a crazy boy, and funny.
Paris wear an astronaute costume because he is always in the moon.
Question 5. ELEMENTS. To make the new version, basic elements have been changed. Example: swords for gun
The apothecary in the book are a diller in the film. The horsesin the books are cars in the film. The woods in the book are the beach in the film. The prince in the book is a police man in the film. All the old in the book are nrw in the film.
Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version.
In the book there's a fight between Romeo and Paris and in the film no. Juliet woke up when Romeo still alive in the film in the book she woke up when he are already dead. Lady Capulet died in the book and in the film no.

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