Comparations Flim and book

Romeo and Juliet

Question1: Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? Example: Verona vs Verona Beach . Where are they? Which century?

The book was writed on the 1597 and the action passes in north of Italy at century XVI , the film was recorded in the street with a decoretion about a century XX and it was filmed on 1996 in Verona



Question 2.. Imagery : metaphors & images :
WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...) and FIRE (petrol station, fights...)
DAY and NIGHT, the MOON. What do they mean?

The water basically symbolism the life, motion, fertilization, purification etc.. It can represent Romeo and Juliet.
And the fire symbolize the energy, power, passion and Authority this adjectives can represent Tybalt he have all of this adejectives.

The water can represent the light (Romeo & Juliet) the light is the spiritual and the divine at is illumination and intelligence, it is the source of goodness and the ultimate reality.

But the Darkness (Tybalt) this can encompass a primitive chaos, it is not essentially evil, yet it is largely addociated with death and destruction.

And finally Paris represent the moon it can symbolic the inmortality and eternity enlightenment and the thus often represents the realm.



Question 3.. Language. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator?

The television presenter speak in prose, there is the only person who speak in prose the other charecters speak in verse because they want say the same word about the book.

Question 4. The fancy dress party.What's the role of the costumes the characters wear?

In the films Juliet wears a costume about Angel this symbolism a purity and lights, Tybalt is dressed by Devil and represent de power, destruction etc... And finally Romeo represent a knight he have a lot of power and control. 


Question 5. Elements : To make the new version, basic elements have been changed. Example: swords for gun

The person who sell the posion to Romeo in the films was a drugdealer and in the book Romeo bought the posion,  In the films Paris was the police and in the book was a simple knight, In the book the nurse wasn't the maid and in the films was the maid. The Verona beach,  In the book the Juliet tomb was a cript and in the films she die in a Tomb on a church.

Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version. In the film Juliet suicide by a gun and when Romeo is speaking she open the eyes and in the book it doesn't happens