Baz Luhrmanns adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Essay
Adaptation
William Shakespeare
Words: 1206 (5 pages)
Baz Luhrmann has used a vast array of media techniques to attract a modern audience to his film adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The opening of the film features a 20th century television news report. Luhrmann has chosen to cast a black American female newsreader, contradicting our expectations of a white English cast throughout….
