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Write 10 page essay on the topic Performance Review: Romeo & Juliet (Baz Lurhmann, 1996).In this manner, is a very interesting twist on perhaps the most famous love story of all and while in broad str

Write 10 page essay on the topic Performance Review: Romeo & Juliet (Baz Lurhmann, 1996).

In this manner, is a very interesting twist on perhaps the most famous love story of all and while in broad strokes it achieves most of that it set out to achieve, there are still some things left to be desired. Both the positive and negative aspects of the film can be condensed into the ideas contained with the film genre,

the text of the film and individual performances of the actors. Therefore, to better appreciate the film itself it is important to look at these three elements individually to obtain a better appreciate of where the film shines and where it fails to meet the mark.

Essentially, Romeo and Juliet as written by Shakespeare is a tale of love that ends in tragedy. Unlike some other tragedies of Shakespeare, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is special because there is no real villain in the story (Draper, 1939). Other plays written by Shakespeare certainly have their villains as we can see in the tragedy of Hamlet that Claudius is playing the role of the villain while in the case of Othello it is Iago who becomes the villain in the story. In such tragedies, negative human emotions and the dark side of one or more individuals may have caused the tragedy (Brown, 1981). However, for Romeo and Juliet, even though it is a tragedy, all we have are well meaning characters such as Friar Laurence and those who are seeking to protect their sense of honour (even thought it may be misplaced) such as Tybalt.

Thus the only villain which we come across in the tragedy is fate which may also be called chance. This becomes evident from the opening scenes of the film itself where a newscaster takes the role of the chorus and describes the tragedy as it is about to unfold upon the people of the city in general and the two “star-crossd” lovers in particular. From the film itself, this becomes evident in the prologue as flashes of riots and stunned faces of the members of the Capulet and Montague elders are shown to the audience.

The opening scenes of the

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