Tuesday, February 7, 2012

OH ROMEO, THY LOVE.

         Watching the Baz Luhrman take on Romeo and Juliet modern movie became so interesting to me. I'm not saying that because of Leonardo Dicaprio. He had such a strong take on it. Most of the time learning and reading Shakespeare is so hard but this time you can see everything the understanding and the meaning of it. With a protagonist who is a helpless romantic and a girl not sure her role is in life emotions fly everywhere. Something that caught my eye the most watching this movie would have to be weather.
          I chose weather because as i was watching the movie I saw how it drastically changed. For example when Romeo's best friend died everything was very cloudy and scary. In this everything became dark and when I saw this I immediately thought thats how Romeo is feeling. He's angry and sad on how something like this could happen. Also when Romeo killed Juliet's cousin rain started to fall down. I guess Romeo is feeling revenge but also sadness because thats Romeo's true love cousin. Another scene I also watched closely was in the beginning when Romeo was writing about Rosaline. The weather was calm beautiful and sunny. As all the drama started you see how everything changes.
            Overall Baz did an amazing job showing the different emotions of characters. Not only did he use it with words and everything else he used it with weather. Letting us know if the character was mad sad or even angry.