DIFFERENCES ABOUT THE FILM AND THE BOOK

1. Reflect about the film and the book in groups. DIFFERENCES.

Question 1. SETTING:

The classical play happens in Verona, Italy and the new version happens in Verona beach in the USA.

The tomb of the capulets in the book is more little and there isn’t so much illumination and decoration than in the film, in the film the tomb is more illuminated with candles and decorated with flowers, and bigger.

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 means purity, love, union, innocence, for example, the first time who

Romeo knows Juliet, there was an aquarius in the middle; ins the scene of the balcony, they felt in the swimming pool.

The angels: Mean Juliet because she disguise of angel in the party.

Fire(petrol station, fights): Violence, enemy, hate.

Day:Friendship, life (Friar laurence with his plants), Poetry (because Romeo wrotes in the day.).

Night: Death, darkness.

Moon: Expectation.

Question 3.. LANGUAGE.

Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? When Romeo speak with Juliet or about Juliet he speak in prose because he is in love.

Who is the narrator?

The narrator of the film is the girl of the news and in the book the narrator is William Sheakspeare.

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

Juliet wear a costume from an angel, the means the innocence, and the purity

Romeo wear a costume from a knight, they represents a courtesy

Paris were a costume from a astronaut, they represent who he is in the moon.

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

Horses for cars

Masks for costume

Lift for stairs

The place for the beach

The question why the families hates them: In the book, the families hates them because they was two rich families, and in the movie they hates because one family had a business and the other had an other business of the same product.

Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version

In the film version Romeo smoking. The stages are very differents. The clothes are so differences, in the classic film the clothes are the typical of the sixteenth century and in the new version the clothes are actual. In the film Mercutio is nigga and in the classic history he isn’t nigga. In the film version the nurse is so cheeky but in the classical version she is so sweet.