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Three aspects of Romeo and Juliet's destruction. 1. The feud between the two families. 2. The nurse and her betrayal of Juliet. 3. The most important aspect of all is fate. INTRODUCTION Romeo and Juliet, is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They did not imagine that their love would lead to the tragedies that it did. These two young people did nothing wrong except fall in love. Three aspects of their destruction included the feud between the two families, the nurse and her betrayal of Juliet and the most important aspect of all is fate. 1. The feud between the two families was one factor that contributed to the love of Romeo and Juliet being destined for destruction. "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny". The two families, Montague's and Capulets, had many problems. There was hate between the two families so much so that even the servants hated each other. This feud would have caused many problems for Romeo and Juliet: These two young lovers knew this and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their parents discovered their secret, they would have made their children's lives miserable. Romeo and Juliet would not have been able to see each other. Both of these families were very stubborn and there was hardly any thing that would have made them become friends. 2. Neither the Montague's or the Capulet's would have accepted the marriage. Keeping the marriage a secret caused Romeo and Juliet to turn to other people for help. Sometimes these people gave them the wrong advice or just betrayed them. The Nurse was one of these characters who betrayed the young couple. The Nurse who was also Juliet's friend turned against her at a very crucial time. The Nurse told Juliet that it would be best...
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Film Analysis Of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet, filmed in 1997, directed by Baz Luhrmann. A good production, like many by this director. Camera techniques at the maximum, excellent soundtrack and well cast actors in it´s corresponding characters. Like I said a good filming production, even though it´s not an outstanding characterisation of the Shakespearean play. For me there are some little details that don´t let this film be equivalent to the play. The language and some actors are two of the factors that may be included in this list. But after all the movie itself is a creative piece of art, how Luhrmann plays with all camera effects its unbelievable. So finally I can say that this "Romeo and Juliet" movie can be used to teach the same play, but after studying it deeply and totally. This "Shakespearean" movie is summarised very easily as obviously has the same plot as the play. Two households, the Capulets and the Montagues, both alike in dignity in fair Verona. From years they've hated each other , heat that will take a pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives; death that made bury their parents rage against each other. There are three main differences between the movie and the play. First of all and the most commercial one is the change of real Italians into immigrant ones into the USA. This is a commercial hint, because with the change of scenery younger audience will like to see the movie. Then there is the fact of the balcony scene which is crucial for the development of the movie. The movie shows this balcony scene from a pool, this different type of scenery is because of all the symbols that Luhrmann plays with, in this one, water. The final and more emotional is the death of...
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"Tis the east and Juliet is the sun…", a famous quote from Shakespeare's world-renowned tragedy,...
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Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet is a highly successful film as an appropriation of the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The language and plot are similar to the play with only slight editing but it is set in a modern context with contemporary values and attitudes. These are relevant to modern viewers yet still focus on the same ideas that Shakespeare's play conveyed to an Elizabethan audience. Luhrmann has successfully made use of music, costuming, visual imagery and a mix of genres to shape our perception of themes, setting and characters. Elements are appropriated so that the film will entertain and be understood by today's society.
The language and plot of the film is very similar to Shakespeare's original play. Shakespeare's language has been retained but sections have been edited out and scenes altered. However this does not limit our understanding as ideas have been replaced by images, which may in fact communicate a clearer meaning. The narrative style focuses not on the text, but on the visual and audio elements that contemporary audiences are familiar with. An example is in the opening scene of the film, when the prologue is shown. In addition to having it read aloud by the newsreader, Luhrmann includes in a montage of clips such as helicopters over the city, violence in the streets and the Capulet vault as a visual representation of the prologue. In doing this Luhrmann acknowledges Shakespeare's idea of the Prologue being a story within a story and its importance in the play. For a modern audience, the Prologue is much easier to understand when presented in a visual manner.
Music also plays an important role in establishing the mood and atmosphere of the film. The music during the montage is powerful and dramatic and is continued at relevant times...
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Run Lola Run The language that Voltov discovered has inspired the works of many filmmakers from all over the world. The film Run Lola Run (1999) by Tom Tykwer, is probably one of the most innovative films of today's Hollywood style movie, which many similar filming and editing techniques originated in Voltov's Man with a Movie Camera. Tykwer uses a number of different ways to film Lola as she runs to save her no good boyfriend from certain death. From an artistic point of view, the editing deserves most of the credit for all of the intensity that is felt by the viewer. Run Lola Run has a very complex story, which is very interesting on its own. However by using the avant-garde techniques of filming and editing developed and mastered by Vertov, the movie becomes alive and fast-paced keeping the audience in suspence at all times. In Run Lola Run, Lola has twenty minutes to find 100,000 marks if she is to save the life of Manni, her boyfriend who lost the money which was picked up by a homeless person on the subway. Manni has until 12 o'clock noon to get the money, or his boss, a drug dealer, will kill him. Lola runs into the streets of Berlin attempting to find the money one way or another. From the opening frames of the movie, several "visual treats" set the tone of the film. There is a clock sound with animation of a huge clock at warp speed. With the aid of accelerated speed of the frames, dissolves, thousands of people are passing into and out frame. Within these thousands of people, certain characters, which are later introduced into the story, are focused on for a split second. This foreshadowing technique, hints who some of the characters are, in the film....
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Here we have a teenage country girl that heard voices that told her to help Charles become the King of France and do the will of God. In order to do this, she needed to lead an army to remove the English from Reims. She was able to convince the King to provide her with a small army to accomplish this. Joan was eventually captured at Compiegne when she was left outside and couldn't get on the drawbridge in time. Joan was captured and found guilty of going against the church and was burned. During the whole process, Joan displayed ethical values such as Courage, Integrity, Loyalty, Respect, Self-Discipline, and Truth. Joan proved herself to be a great warrior. She led charges and rallied people by informing them that they had a duty or responsibility to drive out the English. In addition she was also a good leader. Throughout the scenes, Joan was able to motivate the people to listen to her and get them to do as she wanted them to do. This was only achieved through her self-confidence, determination, and her courage. She did a good job of keeping a clean army in that she had her soldiers believing in doing the right thing and that the right thing was doing God's will. When people mentioned France, they actually were referring to the land of France. However, through Joan's leadership, she was able to bring about a paradigm in that the people started to recognize that there was a possibility of having two nations or two kings or separate entities. Joan proved herself to be a true patriot by explaining in court that God wanted the English to stay in their own lands. It is also clear that Joan was a true Catholic. She did not want to submit to...
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After the carnage at Omaha Beach, we find out that one of the men who died on the beach, Daniel Ryan, also had two other brothers, Sean and Matthew, who die in the same week. This leaves Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) as Mrs Ryan's only living son. General Marshall (Harve Presnell), who is not down there, experiencing the bloodshed, decides that he must do the "proper" thing and sends a platoon off its course from Normandy, with the sole intent being to bring Private Ryan home alive. The platoon, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), includes his faithful right hand man, Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), the sarcastic Private Reiben (Edward Burns), terrified French/German translator Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies), and Privates Jackson (Barry Pepper), Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi). As they make their way through German held territory, they wonder, as do we, whether the lives of an entire platoon of men are worth risking just to save one, for what looks to be a public relations stunt. Thankfully, the film doesn't answer these questions. Steven Spielberg have made an amazing effort showing the tragedy of war, at least so I think. A wounded man on the beach tries to stuff his entrails back into his stomach. A soldier gets his arm completely shot off, then stands there in a world of his own, exposed to all sorts of fire, before coming to and picking the lost arm up off the ground -- as if he'll be able to use it later. A bullet hits a young soldier's helmet, which shields him from the brunt of the blow. He takes off the helmet, smiles, and looks up as if to thank God -- as another bullet shatters his uncovered skull and chunks of his brain matter...
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Saving Private Ryan is a great war movie and has the best depiction of the D-Day invasion that has ever been presented on film before. The part of Saving Private Ryan that makes it a great war movie is its authenticity and the same goes with the D-Day invasion. The realism and complete truthfulness of war has never even remotely been attempted by another movie. Saving Private Ryan is somewhat based on a true incident and this makes it easy to accept the characters and events as real. The well developed and believable characters are essential in the making of a great war movie. Small battles, where men are lost at war assists in developing the characters. The question that is asked the whole movie is if one man's life more important than another man's life. As the movie ovals you learn the answer to the question from the actions and comments of the soldiers. The viewer is brought into the hearts and souls of the soldiers, as they battle their selves to find a reason to save Private Ryan. This rhetorical question truly develops the characters. Most war movies fall into the category of heroic tales of glory or different trends such as glamorizing or condemning the war. Saving Private Ryan veers away from the both of these downfalls. Instead of being a heroic tale of glory it is a tale of human courage and sacrifice. There is no one hero, yet the men come together as a band of brothers. The men do not attempt superhuman feats, but show there courage and sacrifice in the line of duty. These characteristics are essential for their survival during the war. Saving Private Ryan neither glamorizes or tries to condemn war, it simply shows the truth of war. Saving Private Ryan also stays away...
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John Q. Archibald and his wife have found out that their son has a heart condition. This condition is so severe that he will not survive without heart transplant surgery. John believes that he has insurance to cover this surgery but finds out this is not the case. He begins a campaign to get his insurance to cover the cost of the surgery as well as fund raising to help with the medical expenses for his son's hospitalization and surgery. The hospital refuses to put Mike Archibald on the list for a heart because they do not have the money to cover this surgery. John Q. and his wife become desperate as their son's health worsens. In a desperate attempt to make something happen, John Q. takes his son's heart surgeon, some medical staff, and some patients hostage in the Emergency Room of the hospital that is about to discharge his son. While holding these hostages, the Administrator of the hospital decides that they will put the child on the list and that the hospital will absorb the cost. It becomes apparent to John Q that a heart is not going to be available to his son soon enough. His son is dying. He convinces the heart surgeon to use his heart to put into his son after he kills himself. John Q goes to speak with his son about his future and to give him fatherly advice that he will not be there to give. He says goodby to his son in a very emotional scene. Meanwhile, a fax is received by the nurse who has taken care of Mike telling them that a heart that matches is available. The nurse runs out of the hospital to alert the Administrator. Meanwhile, the heart surgeon and other hospital staff have gathered in a room where...
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"I don't think any one film is ever going to change anything. I don't think any one newspaper article ever changes anything. But over a period of years, the drip, drip, drip of a lot of gook movies, a lot of good articles...all this is very, very, very important. The effect of that drip, drip, drip the daily diet of views and ideas that adhere to and promote what is best in society, that has an effect. Not one movie, not one article, not one building, but just that fact that all of us buckle down and try to do better and beter." The movie Schindler's List is a movie that is used to make people really think about what is right and what is wrong, specifically the Nazi treatement of the Jews. Throughout Schindler's List power scenes and images are used to capture how atrosic the treatment of the Jews really was. The movie helps people to get a view back in history and decide how they truly feel on the subject. It is Steven Speilburgs affective plot, content, imagery and film making skills that makes Schindler's List a movie that adds to constant drip, drip, drip of a viewpoint. The plot of the movie is very affective in displaying the severe treatment that the Jews experienced from the Nazis. The movie begins with Oskar Schindler getting on the good side of Nazi officers so that he will be able to obtain Jews to work for him without a problem. After Schindler obtains the Jews to work for him the movie really begins to focus on the horrible treatment towards the Jews. A scene that really stands out and shows a moment of realization for Schindler is when the Jews are stripped from their homes in the ghettos. This is a...
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Schindler's List A Report By: Sunlilly In the beginning of the movie I thought that Oskar Schindler was a "bad guy" because he was a member of the Nazi party. After awhile though it becomes apparent that he isn't. The movie begins with September of 1939 when German forces defeated the Polish army. Jews are coming from everywhere leaving their homes to relocate in major cities and register their families as ordered. As things progressively get worse the Jews are forced from heir homes into ghettos where many people share one room. The people who are not Jewish throw mud at them and act hatefully toward them as they watch them leave. Schindler appears to be looking for people to start up a new business of making enamelware cookery. He gets money to start up the business from Jews. The money has little value for them in the ghetto where there is nothing to buy. Schindler hires Jews for his company because they cost less then Polish workers. His wife comes home to visit him. He tells her about how successful his company is. He had started with nothing and made a lot of money. A man with only one arm comes to Schindler's office to thank him for the job. Schindler gets mad because he thinks that this man can't do much useful work. The next day on their way to work the Jews are stopped to shovel snow. Some Nazi's notice the man who is missing an arm and think that he is worthless and kill him. Schindler gets mad about this and demands to be compensated for his dead worker saying that he was important when earlier he thought not. Itzhak Stern his accountant, the one who pretty much runs his company, is gathered onto a train with other Jews (probable...
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Schindler's List Movie Review The movie Schindler's List is based on a true story. The setting takes place during World War II (1939-1945). The movie is based on the lives of the Jewish people during this time. The main character in the movie is a man by the name of Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler is a very sophisticated business man and member of the Nazi Party. The movie is based on the life and times of Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. Schindler's List is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg. Although this movie is quite new, it still was produced in black and white. I think that Steven Spielberg created this movie in black and white to set a mood for the reviewer. The lives of Jewish people during the world war were dark and gloomy, much like the coloring of this film. The film does although have some color to it for significant reasons. Steven Spielberg is also of the Jewish religion and wanted to create a movie that is deep and true to meaning. The intended audience for this feature film is in my perspective, young adults. This film is intended to be a viewed as a learning tool or reference to the holocaust. It is not made for entertainment purposes. The movie is classified as a drama, but could easily be a documentary type project. The characters in the movie are very convincing and true to life. Oskar Schindler is romanticized in the way of how he acts. Oskar Schindler is a great man who helps out the Jewish people in their fight for survival. He uses his fortune and wealth to his advantage throughout the movie. Many of the characters are very realistic and believable. I envy the thought behind the characters and the talent of the actors in...
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Stern was the key for Schindler. Without Stern, Schindler would have not succeeded they way he did. Stern acted as mediator between Schilder and the Jewish people. As relationships between the Germans and the Jews were a sour one at the time, it was lucky that Schindler found a man such as Stern who he could trust. Stern was a bit reluctant wether he would trust Schilder at first as he was part of the Nazi party. It wasn't till Schilder proposed his idea to Stern that he decided to trust him, as he knew it would be the only way which he could save some of the Jewish people. Schindler was a very smart and wealthy man, a man that knew how to win over people. Schilder had both the money and the brains to become a successful business man. He approached Stern with the idea to start up a pot factory and get the Jewish people to work in then to save them for going to camps where they would then be killed. Stern was a bit reluctant to accept the offer but knew it would be the only way of survival. While Schindler knew his plan would work he also knew that it wouldn't succeed with out the help of Stern, as he knew his skills would be essential for the partnership. Once Schindler pot factory was set-up he started to win the respect of the Jewish workers but still not form Stern. Not after long Schindler's pot factory closed down this meant that all the Jewish workers were sent to camps where there was a chance of them being killed. Schindler wasn't going to let his Jewish workers, which he had become close to get away so easy. Schindler together with Ster prepared a list of workers he...
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Violence in School Settings In the past few years school violence has become some what of a trend. In the period from 1996-1999, 17 school shootings have occurred in the United States. Educators, parents, and students everywhere are questioning why is this happening, who is to blame, and what can we do to stop it. I have researched this topic and come across many theories and suggestions. Some people suggest that we downsize to smaller schools, others place blame on parents and society, and then there are those who feel before we can stop it, we must learn how to deal with it. Violence in schools is now another thing parents fear when their children are at school. One way that has been brought up to stop this violence may be to downsize to smaller schools. I agree that this is a wonderful idea. In a smaller school setting students and teachers would feel more comfortable. They would be able to have a more personal student-teacher relationship and quite possibly close parent-teacher relationships too. This could be an answer to our problems however, it would raise a few other issues such as money, more teachers, more school buildings, etc…So I feel that there could be a better way. People have also placed the blame of school violence on the parents, society, and also music. I agree with parents being at fault to some extent. I feel that parents should recognize anger in their child, and if they don't sense that something is wrong then they aren't spending enough time with their child. I know that they aren't able to control their child's every move, but to some extent they could help to prevent some of them. Parents have to teach their children right from wrong, not just once, but repeatedly. I also think...
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Television dramas affect our lives, they get viewers involved and affect the viewers outlook on life, their opinions on issues in society and the way we behave and socialise. The people in our everyday lives view us in a certain way and expect us to respond to a pattern they have become accustomed to, they expect us to be true. The Secret Life of us episode be true is an Australian television drama based on friendship, relationships, the work force and issues that everyday people are confronted with. The Secret Life of us makes it easy for the audience to relate to the characters seeing them in everyday life faced with similar situations to what the audience may of been in seeing their highs and lows this makes the characters more alive, more real. The Secret Life of us offers a possible solution to problems, gives us ideas it shows the positive perspective as well as the negative on important issues in Australian society today. Problems in relationships are common in our society the way we resolve the problems depends on our feelings and emotions, the type of person we are. An example of relationship problems in The Secret Life of us is when everything appears to be going great between Evan and George , Evan becomes afraid that it's getting to serious, it's going somewhere he doesn't want to go. George is into the relationship more then Evan as present in the following quote from Evan, " I wanted to say I've fallen of the riverbank into a current that's taking me somewhere I've never been before, I wanted to ask George to wait for me to catch her up, so that we could float together to wherever it is that were going." This leaves the viewer thinking that some people have...
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FILM Chosen: Se7en (1995) Director: David Fincher Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker One of the most revered movies of the 1990s as well as being one of my favorite movies, Se7en, brilliantly captures the depravity and horror of the human psyche. Fincher sets the mode of this movie from the get go as being a quote on quote a "dark somber movie" by basically filming the movie in the dark. The cinematographer Darius Khondhji does a fantastic job by creating this very somber movie by over exaggerating the blacks and taking out any bright colors by using this silver retention chemical process. Throughout this movie, the audience is at the edge of their seats as Detectives Mills and Somerset are on a quest to find a deranged serial killer only known as "John Doe". A very nail biting scene that is a very effective suspenseful thrill ride is the raid on John Doe's apartment. The scene opens up with a whipping camera view downwards to the fleet of vehicles carrying the SWAT TEAM. The tone is set with the heavy onslaught of rain and the very dark huish colors of black and brown. The only bright colors in the scene come from the siren lights on top of the vehicles. The rain seems to so heavy pouring that it may even seem a bit painful as it floods the empty dinged urban city. Then the SWAT Team break out and run into the building; the sheer heavy number of SWAT Team members only add to the notion that something big is about to happen. This is when composer Howard Shore's music kicks in and creates a more chaotic feeling as the swat members run up the stairs of the old dirty apartment with their shotgun which has a flashlight at the tip of it....
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I'm really hard pressed to find any similarities between The Tale of Heike, and Seven Samurai aside from the warrior caste of samurai. One thing that might be worth noting is that honor came before the personal self. In Heike the warring factions constantly stop their engagements to test one another's code of honor and skill, usually in the form of a contest; for example shooting an arrow through a fan. In Seven Samurai the true warriors—not the farmers—seemed to be aiding the peasants for no other reason than bound by honor because of being a warrior, and also perhaps seeking an honorable samurai's death. It really struck me how good the story of the Seven Samurai is, and also how universal its appeal is to many cultures. The theme of putting yourself second and helping those that need to be helped transcends into many cultures. So much so that the remake of The Magnificent Seven was revamped towards a Western culture audience. Even Stephen King paid tribute to Akira Kurosawa in a prologue to his up coming book, Part V in the Dark Tower series. In Stephen King's book a small farming community is plagued by a group they call "wolves" that come and steal their children. Like in Seven Samurai one farmer convinces the rest to fight, and they hire a wondering group of Gunslingers to help them. Not only is the plotline the same, but in Seven Samurai the farmer/samurai, who was also the thieve in Rashomon, I can not remember his name, called the bandits "wolves" a few times in the second half of the movie. Actually, I have a printed copy I'd be happy to let you read, if you wish. Part V isn't out yet, but Stephen King on his website admitted that even more obvious...
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Even with the knowledge that teens are the primary audiences for movies in theaters and for in-home movies on cable or videocassette, little research has been done in analyzing the amount sexual content in the movies. However we do know that a large amount (2/3) of movies are R-rated due to sexual content. Laws over movies legal age limit have become slackened over recent times. Although the required age to see an R-rated movie is 16 without an adult, the average person has most likely seen one already.
Compared to the other formats, feature films seemed almost priggish, with an overall average of only seven scenes involving sex per hour, a mere two of which involved hard-core material. This reflects the marketing of different films to demographically targeted audiences. This confines highly sexual material to a smaller nook than those carved out by MTV music videos, which are aimed at teenagers, or even television series, many of which compete for a relatively youthful audience. However, the most sexually oriented films could compete with any other format in both the amount and explicitness of the material.
The most sex scenes (53) appeared in the teenage grossout movie "Something About Mary," which also contained 15 scenes with hard-core references. "Mary" was followed closely by "Stella Got Her Groove Back," which totalled 53 sex scenes overall and the highest number of hard-core scenes (22) among the year's most popular films. Close behind was "The Wedding Singer" with 45 sex scenes and 19 instances of hard-core material. Unlike "Mary" and "Stella," which were both rated R, "Wedding Singer" carried a PG-13 rating, as did four of the movies that made the top ten list. Most prominent among the remaining members of this group was "Six Days Seven Nights," whose PG-13 rating was belied by 32 sex...
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Bob Fosse's sexy cynicism still shines in Chicago, a faithful movie adaptation of the choreographer-director's 1975 Broadway musical. Of course the story, all about merry murderesses and tabloid fame, is set in the Roaring '20s. Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are beautifully matched as Jazz Age vixens, and Richard Gere gleefully sheds his customary cool to belt out a showstopper. Whatever qualms musical purists may have about director Rob Marshall's style, the film's sheer exuberance is intoxicating. Given the scarcity of big-screen musicals in the last 25 years, that's a cause for singing, dancing, cheering. And all that jazz. Make no mistake. Chicago is a work of art. And not like most works of art, it is beyond the comprehension and enjoyment of most simpletons among us. If Forest Gump is your idea of the way the world really works, then you will HATE Chicago. Chicago is rough, brutal and unflinching in it's cynicism. It is also brilliant and enjoyable beyond imagination. It is mesmerizing. If you have a brain in your head and are unafraid to see the world and society and humanity for what they all really are. Then you will LOVE this movie. The music, the characters, and above all the songs -- All of it are simply outstanding. Bob Fosse's sexy cynicism still shines in Chicago, a faithful movie adaptation of the choreographer-director's 1975 Broadway musical. Of course the story, all about merry murderesses and tabloid fame, is set in the Roaring '20s. Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are beautifully matched as Jazz Age vixens, and Richard Gere gleefully sheds his customary cool to belt out a showstopper. Whatever qualms musical purists may have about director Rob Marshall's style, the film's sheer exuberance is intoxicating. Given the scarcity of big-screen musicals in the last 25 years, that's a cause...
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The film "Shakespeare in Love" through the use of various film techniques and the way in which it is produced, explores many themes and issues relating to the narrative, one of the most prominent being that of reality vs. fiction.
The statement "This film, in the way it is crafted, suggests that fiction is more important than real life." is one that is not entirely correct as throughout the film, reality is demonstrated as inescapable and plays a much larger role in the lives of the characters than fiction. The film is teeming with "real life" situations that the director has deliberately included to contrast reality and fiction. These would include bawdiness, sex, love, conflict and loss just to name a few.
The play begins with a scene depicting the harsh reality of Elizabethan London, and this is achieved through the use of different camera shots, angles, lighting and movement. The camera shots are generally taken from eye-level focusing on the frantic hustle and bustle of the crowded and dirty streets. Extreme close-ups often focus on images of filth such as animal manure and sewage being thrown out of a window, depicting the environment in which the towns' people exist. The combination of these film techniques are used frequently throughout the film when depicting the peasantry and demonstrate that the scene, or the people in it, are ordinary and work together to build the reality of the period for the audience.
The director has worked very deliberately to portray the character of Shakespeare as an ordinary man, subjected to the same difficulties and emotions as any other character in the film. This is achieved largely through attention to costuming, the narrative and camera angles. Whenever we see Shakespeare, he is dressed in loose and often dirty clothing, supporting the director's attempts to portray...
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