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A 4 page paper which examines each respective director’s artistic vision, and then selects a key line from a chosen scene, and considers how the director elects to execute the scene and what artistic execution he employs in order to achieve the desired result. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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plays and also the most tragic because it involved the youthful idealism of teens, and the strong passions that accompany this innocence. In 1967, Florentine-based director Franco Zeffirelli endeavored
to breathe new life into this centuries old play by choosing authentic Italian locations to mimic Shakespeares Verona and inexperienced teens Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey to portray the demanding
roles of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Despite his devotion to Shakespeares prose, Zeffirelli did not have to look hard to find artistic vision; it surrounded him everywhere in
the hippie counterculture that was spreading throughout the world by the late-1960s. His Romeo and Juliet were comfortable being received at court but would have been equally at home
in a Haight-Ashbury commune. The fervent emotions surrounding the anti-Vietnam War protestors at the time are reflected in the desperate love of Romeo and Juliet, who feel compelled to
seize the present moment because the future looked so uncertain. The climax of the play and films occurs near the end when Juliet (whose parents are unaware of her elopement
with the son of their sworn enemies) elects to fake her own death in order to avoid marrying the suitor her father has arranged for her so she can rejoin
her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo sums up the key line that expresses their love and the extent
of their wild passion, which obscures the line between life and death, when he utters simply before drinking poison, "Heres to my love! Thus with a kiss, I die"
(V.iii.120-121). Omitted are Shakespeares additional lines, "O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick" to emphasize the lovers passion for each other rather than the manner of death Romeo chooses.
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