How Does Baz Luhrmann Engage A Moders Audience's Interest That

The Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo and Juliet opens with prominent beginning which engages a modern audience by providing rock music at the start of the film. This rock music includes a strong base guitar and some heavy drums; appearing at the beginning but as the music progresses the whole band establishes a foot hold in the soundtrack, which builds up adrenalin within me. As the whole band is drawn in, this reflects what the young audience may in account. From a young audience's point of view, the rock music may pull towards more young audiences because this might possibly generate more adrenalin. However, on the other hand this might possibly distance the classical (older) audience.

The climax of the opening scene affects me in two various aspects of adrenalin; the first is the car engine, which enhances excitement by suggesting a modern teenage film which involves dramatic drama, mainly action where they use car engines. This formulates awareness of excitement which causes an adrenalin rush in contrast to the speed of the adaptation. The other aspect in which Baz Luhrmann creates adrenalin is when the music introduces "the boys, the boys!" This use of dialogue produces momentum during the opening sequence of the soundtrack. The fact

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The plot in which the Zefirelli's version commences is like chalk and cheese compared to the setting in which the Baz Luhrmann version took place.

The opening sequence doesn't really live up to my expectations of Shakespeare.

The "Zefirelli" adaptation starts with a totally different or totally opposite opening sequence to the Baz Luhrmann version uses rock music to engage a modern audience, Zefirelli goes for the quite classical music to do this. As the audience's age may be the same, but the taste of drama could be totally the opposite. I would say the part I most enjoyed was the part when the modern adaptation involved the use of dialogue such as '' the boys, the boys!'', the fact that it's intended towards males (me) makes it even more pleasurable. By Zefirelli's older adaptation, which commences from a more classical point of view, this signifies that classical tends to