Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Romeo? Gnomeo? And Juliet?
After reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what connections or satirized elements do you see employed within the brief clips we viewed in Gnomeo and Juliet?
Please be specific regarding the play's characters and plot elements:
Capulets, Montagues, balcony scene, Nurse, etc... This blog response is
due by Fri., May 18th at 2:30p.m.
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I think that Gnomeo and Juliet have similar elements, but they are very different in a sense that the movie is meant to be more comical and kid friendly, and it leaves out a lot of shakespeare's important details.
After reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what connections or satirized elements do you see employed within the brief clips we viewed in Gnomeo and Juliet? Please be specific regarding the play's characters and plot elements: Capulets, Montagues, balcony scene, Nurse, etc...
In Romeo and Juliet they have a prologue in which they lay out their scene. Both households are red and blue, just as in the film, and they live on Verona Drive. The scene is laid out in Verona, Italy. The balcony scene shows how intense their love is for one another especially within the film. The characters fit their depiction as in the book.
In the beginning of the movie the mailboxes have Capulet on one and Montague on the other and they have 2B and not 2B on them which is from another Shakespeare movie. As well as we know they are against each other because one house is red and the other house is blue. In the movie Juliet's best friend and person she talks to is the frog which is the nurse in the play.
The Gnomeo and Juliet Film has many similarities to the actual novel Romeo and Juliet. The Gnomeo film is more kid friendly, and explains the feud in a way that young kid's can understand. They have the same gist, but they just explain things in different ways. Instead of duals with swords, they have races with lawn mowers. Instead of the Nurse/Juliet it's Juliet and a frog. It has the same story line, but the film is made for children, so it doesn't have as much sadness and destruction.
A lot of the characters were both in the play and in the movie like Romeo, Juliet, the Capulets and the Montague's, the nurse is in the movie as well. There was a narrator in the animated version. In the movie they didn't have swords they didn't try to stab each other in stead they had lawn mower races. Another difference is The Montague's didn't have the father he had died and the Capulets didn't have their mom, she passed away as well. The gnomes don't have the name Montague or Capulet they have reds and blues. Blues are Montague's in the original and red is the Capulets. The nurse is the frog and her name is nanette instead of the Nurse.
I think they are very alike because in the beginning with the prologue it is sorta a honest joke and certain characters like Tybalt are the same in both. Also the nurse is portrayed as a frog which has a meaning behind it because the nurse was annoying. The feud between houses is also the same.
After reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what connections or satirized elements do you see employed within the brief clips we viewed in Gnomeo and Juliet? Please be specific regarding the play's characters and plot elements: Capulets, Montagues, balcony scene, Nurse, etc... This blog response is due by Fri., May 18th at 2:30p.m
-Same prologue
-Different houses for the Montagues and Capulets
-Different colored hats for which group they
-Tybalt is a red hat (Capulet)
-Juliet has a red hat (Capulet)
Gnomeo is a blue hat (Montague)
-Gnomeo's (Romeos) mom is in the movie but not in the actual play itself
-Capulet is in here (Juliet's dad)
-Nurse is the frog
Gnomeo and Juliet does a good job of executing characters and keeping it clean and less violent. The characters still have the same personality, such as the nurse (the frog) is absolutely crazy, and Tybalt is still mean. They take the idea of two houses in division and makes it more child friendly.
There are two houses, one red and one blue, with one mailbox saying montague and one Capulet and each house has a garden full of red or blue gnomes, the two gardens don't get along. Gnomeo is the blue gnome that then falls in love with the red gnome Juliet. The whole movie is based on the original, but changed to fit a younger audience.
Well, of course, there are to two lovers Gnomeo and Juliet, and their love is for forbidden by there parents. There are the Montagues and Capulets, who hate each other. They are locked in a feud that no one knows how it started. They both have their colors that they wear. There is a Tybalt, that is killed by Gnomeo. Juliet is up on a tower, and has a nurse like character who she confides in. Gnomeo and Juliet have a relationship that is secret, and only two other people know about it. Things escalate quickly, in like 3 days the whole thing is over. Gnomeo has two companies that are always with him, like Tybalt and Mercutio. Their love heals the relationship between the two families.
A lot of the long dialogue and it is sarcastically shown that nobody wants to hear it, when the gnome was talking at the beginning. I notice differences in how involved the parents are in the two’s lives, and how the parents have different lives. The Montague’s father dies, and the Capulet’s mother is gone as well, so the Nurse takes over for the Father and is her protector. The Nurse is also very involved and has a different attitude towards Juliet’s love with a blue. It stays along with the storyline, but it’s different and has different views on certain scenes.
In the movie Gnomeo and Juliet relates to Romeo and Juliet the actual play a lot. The charecters act a lot the same Juliet is red and she has a frog freins and to me that frog is supposed to be the nurse, because the nurse is very loud and annoying to some people and the frog has the same personality as the nurse. The houses are also very divided, just like the different families are in the book. Overall they link the play and get the same idea to make it more interesting.
After reading Romeo and Juliet the connection that I made to the "Gnomeo and Juliet" movie was primarily the family colors and portrayal of the feud. In the beginning of the movie, Romeo and Tybalt are seen racing lawn mowers to see what family is "better". Furthermore Lord Capulet and Lady Montague are arguing about whose garden looks better. On the other hand, in the book the Capulets and Montagues throw insults at one another and engage in silly quarrels. In the second part of the clip Juliet is seen fawning over her meeting with Romeo earlier, and admits she is in love with a Montague. This was portrayed in the book because Romeo and Juliet instantly fell in love at the Masque ball, forming a forbidden love. Overall, the parts of the movie that we saw compared to scenes in the book gave similar messages.
After reading Romeo and Juliet and watching Gnomeo and Juliet I see some good connections. In the beginning of the movie they prank each other and insult each other, and in the book is it fighting in the streets. Both houses are blue and red, they have the balcony scene where Romeo listens in and they both tell each other of their love, Romeo killing Tybalt. And they have the moment where Juliet’s father was trying to set her up. They even have the nurse character for Juliet. But there is a lot of things different. For example, even if in the movie is showed that Gnomeo and Juliet “died” they turned out to be ok which lead to the families reuniting, while in the real story both died and then the family makes up right after. In a way they had a lot of it super accurate and portrayed in a silly, cartoon way that was family friendly. But they missed the idea of death bringing the two families together.
Both gnomeo and Juliet and Romeo and Juliet are very similar. Gnomeo and Juliet could almost be like a child's version of Romeo and Juliet. In the begging they are pranking each other and even the owners of the house don't get along with the cars. TheCapulet side is red and the Montague side is blue to signify which side is which.
The two stories, Gnomeo and Juliet and Romeo and Juliet are very similar and different at the same time. The two houses are represented as blue (montague) and red (capulet) in Gnomeo and Juliet so you can obviously tell the two apart. They also had to change many things because it is more of a kids audience, but overall they are telling the same story of two young people that fall in love at first sight.
After reading Romeo and Juliet and watching parts of Gnomeo and Juliet there are many similarities but as well as many differences. Both of the families have strong dislikes for one other, but in the movie it is settled down as a lawn mower race. The movie and the book had the same overall theme and setting but Gnomeo and Juliet was more for a kids audience to see.
I definitely saw a lot of connections, like all of the names and the characters relationships. The battles were of the same concept. I noticed how the Capulets and the Montegues still had a deep hatred for each other and I saw how Juliet's parents were very strict on her and tried to control her, which, like in the book, made her want to rebel even more. I also noticed how Romeo and Tybalt had battles, just like in the book, although in the movie it was a lot less violent.
I noticed multiple connections to GNomeo and Juliet, and Romeo and Juliet. I think that Gnomeo and Juliet is just a kids version of Romeo and Juliet, and it is sugar coating the story. INstead of Killing each other in this movie they try and beat eachothers flower gardens. I think that it is a happy way of showing and introducing children to ROmeo and Juliet because they will hear about it and it is a great story, but they do not need all of the violence.
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