I preferred the play over the movie because it focuses more on love, rather than on violence or deaths, for example in the play when someone dies it is always because of love or something that relates to Romeo and Juliet's romance, in the movie there is no good justification for why characters kill each other, people just die and even it is for the same reasons that in the play, they are more emphasized in the play . For example, when Tybalt kills Mercutio, he really wanted to fight with Romeo, however Romeo decides not to fight Tybalt and he hides the fact that he is already married to his Capulet cousin, Juliet because he knows that is something he shouldn't have done. Also, in the book the characteristics of the play are according to the language of the time period, in the movie it doesn't make sense why the characters speak as if they were in a time period really long ago, and Verona is played as another city, which doesn't make sense because of many things, one of them is the last names of the characters, Capulet and Montague . For example, in the movie, in the balcony scene, Juliet says a soliloquy were she uses poetic language and words that somebody would not use in a normal day, this kind of things are not according to the time period, meaning that the play and the script are not adequate for the setting and time period of the movie.
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AuthorIsabel Restrepo CategoriesArchives
Junio 2015
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