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A 5 page essay that discusses and analyzes the cinematic technique used in Franco Zeffirelli's version of Romeo and Juliet. The writer pays particular attention the scene of the Capulet ball and the one with the fatal duels, outlining cinematic imagery. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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is an extravagant, spectacular production that is full of motion and energy. The set interiors are full of rich colors and textures, which are bathed in soft, golden lighting so
that they suggest paintings by Renaissance masters. Zeffirelli fills the cinematic frame with motion, people and thing, which is intended to give the film a "realistic solidity" (Jorgens 80).
In other words, rather then try to recreate on film the environment of a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, Zeffirellis approach is unabashedly cinematic. His camera roams all
over Verona. Furthermore, the young actors (this is one of the few productions of the play in which the actors actually were teenagers) give their lines in a non-theatrical,
non-elocutionary style that resembles the cadences of natural speech more then the iambic pentameter of poetry. Zeffirelli uses a pared down text and often interrupts the flow of the
lines with gestures and sounds, which serves to keep the speech out of the way of the action, which is according to the conventions of film realism (Jorgens 81).
The film opens with a panoramic shot of Verona. This shot provides the visual equivalent of the distant and formal tone of the prologue. As the camera pans over
the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white shroud echoes the fate of the
"star-crossed" lovers (Jorgens 81). Then the camera zooms in on the burning circle of the sun until it fills the screen with blinding light, which makes it a symbol for
the passions in the play, and is, perhaps, a bit overused according to Jorgens. The student researching this topic may wish to focus on one of two "big" scenes
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