Romeo And Juliet Film 1968
So score the first point for the 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, director Franco Zeffirelli's second of three Shakespearean films: it dodges all three of these traps, sometimes quite well, and quite surprisingly. Romeo and Juliet Movie Comparison 2714 Words Mar 10th, 2013 11 Pages In Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, is a traditional adaptation of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet, with some variations.
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Trivia According to Paramount Pictures' souvenir book, it appears that Director Franco Zeffirelli either filmed and cut, or at least intended to film the scene where Paris confronts Romeo at Juliet's tomb, and is killed by him in a sword fight. Fencing master Niccolo Pena was engaged to train Leonard Whiting, Michael York, John McEnery, and Roberto Bisacco, the actor who played Paris. The book states, 'Romeo, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Paris all get into trouble through their haste to draw a sword.' It goes on to mention that Whiting was given an authentic Renaissance sword to use in the movie.
Truly one of the best films ever created of Shakespeare's plays. While in today's MTV - short attention span world this film may seem boring, in 1968 this film was revolutionary (I am not prejudice since I am in the MTV generation). Until this time R&J had been played by much older actors, since it was assumed they could understand Shakespeare's language. In 1968, Franco Z. Gives us actors the actual age of Shakespeare's lead characters and they can act.