extra response to romeo + juliet movie

I think that this movie displays the book and it's characters very well. by adding emphasis to the important events, they make the meaning of the book a bit stronger. it grabs your attention and makes you focus on the very dramatic scenes rather than the ones where; compared to the rest, are very plain.

i also think that they displayed the families' power very well in the beginning. they make all of the buildings seem super tiny and then BOOM smack in the middle are 2 huge buildings that look like skyscrapers. each with a family name over it. Whether it says montague or capulet, both buildings are very tall and your attention is immediately drawn to them. kind of like that really big annoying tree in van gogh's painting. at first, you kind of look at the scenery in the back, but it's difficult to ignore that big black thing there. just like these buildings. it's impossible to not see them. i think that the largness of these buildings kind of emphasises the power that both families have. kind of like the line "2 households both alike in dignity".

this movie also emphasises the street fight. first of all the place where they fight is in a gas station. just because they saw eachother, they began to fight. and in a gas station. of all places a gas station that is full of people. and their fights reach high levels of dangerosity. they have to get chased with helicopters so that they could stop the fighting. also, in my opinion, they acted like idiots. and the capulet's heel are so ridiculous, i literally began to giggle.

another thing that i think that they emphasise that helped, were the visual appearances of the characters. for example, tybalt capulet has a very funny haicut, and a pointy beard. this makes him look very silly. and benvolio's haircut also makes him look very silly in my opinion. it kind of states that they just use this as an excuse to fight with someone. i also think that alll of these 'silly' features were on purpose so that you can see, that the family feud wasn't necessary. like one of our ela teachers said, (i think it was mr. records) not even the families know why exactly they hate eachother. it's just a fact to them now. Capulets and Montagues hate eachother. so by making them act and look very silly while they fight, they emphasise the fact that he fighting just doesn't make any sense anymore. it's pointless.

i think that the people that made the movie were very clear on what they thought about the fighting between these families. and i think that perhaps maybe even shakespear meant it too. and romeo and juliet's love just states the fact the even the kids don't really care about the fight anymore either.



tybalts funny moustach and haircut

benvolio and his crazyness