ROMEO & JULIET

The film and the original novel of Romeo and Juliet has very diferences.



Question 1. SETTING: Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? Example: Verona vs Verona Beach . Where are they? Which century?

Verona isn't the place that show us the film. Verona isn't a modern city like New York and hasn't bigs skyscrapers.
Verona (Italy) in the XVI century, and the new version takes place in Verona Beach (USA) in the XX century (1996).

 original

film

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 represents love (when romeo and juliet play in the pool of juliet house) and the fire is the hate (when capulet and montague are fighting in the gas station). 

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. In the movie except secundary characters that aren't very important all speak in verse too because most of what they say are from of the original novel.

Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY.What's the role of the costumes?

When They are dressed for the dance, the costumes of Romeo and Juliet attract me. Juliet was dressed with an angel costume (innocent, kind, poor) and Romeo like a knight (strong, brave...). More or less the costumes represent the personality of the character.

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

In the movie all is adapted for the actuallity and are more diferences respect to the original novel, but in essence are the same. So now I don't remember much diferences... the places, clothes, weapons, etc.


Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version
The city of original novel and the city of the movie, this is very diferent. The city of the movie are more action: police, helicopter, guns, gas station, etc.