How does the Nextel
Romeo And Juliet commercial satirically update the "classic"
Romeo and Juliet?
What does it make you contemplate and consider? Please reference,
quote, and analyze the drama and commercial. Please complete this blog
response by Fri., May 18th.
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How does the Nextel Romeo And Juliet commercial satirically update the "classic" Romeo and Juliet? What does it make you contemplate and consider? Please reference, quote, and analyze the drama and commercial.
They used cell phones to communicate with each other and certain slang. At the end, the Friar says "kids" in a sarcastic way. They were saying how kids are irresponsible and made the play only 28 seconds long.
How does the Nextel Romeo And Juliet commercial satirically update the "classic" Romeo and Juliet? What does it make you contemplate and consider? Please reference, quote, and analyze the drama and commercial. Please complete this blog response by Fri., May 18th.
They use flip phones in order to demonstrate the communication between the two. It makes one contemplate how intense and quickly everything happened. In such a short time span, the stress of the relationship wound up killing them both, which is perfectly depicted within this commercial. They love each other, yes, but they could not be together, and that is the irony of it all. The other characters, also, just watched them go insane without the other.
This commercial covers the majority of the Romeo and Juliet play. It shows the love between the two and the most important scenes of the story. It doesn't show anything about the relationship between Juliet and Paris, but I believe that it has the same affect even when missing some scenes or people. The Nextel Commercial explains the whole gist of the play.
It makes me realize how simple yet complex Shakspear's play is. The characters build complex relations but their actions block the hope of them developing into what they should be. Also in the commercial, they use cell phones and modern phrases which gives it a different spin that makes it easier to understand.
I think the commercial highlights how foolish kids could be, as in Romeo and Juliet the two were both very young and everything ended up in chaos do to lack of communication among other things. At the end of the commercial there is a man who says "Kids" as if the whole thing was due to their young minds or lack of intelligence.
This version of Romeo and Juliet updates the old script by writing a new one. They place modern words in and act more like people today. This makes me think that Romeo and Juliet can be understood by everyone when you put in the right context and words, despite the level of difficulty the book is considered to be.
The commercial is more modern than the real play itself. It is an add for technology which they did not have back then. Instead of a whole novel of different words of Shakespeare and many extra quotes,it is 30 seconds that sums up the whole novel and play. Juliet says "...better now." This is three words instead of a whole chapter. In conclusion, instead of using a ton of words to explain Romeo and Juliet, you could just use simple easy language.
I like how everything is paraphrased, and how most of the big parts of the play are shown instead of the entire movie. I think that modern day relationships also are getting far away from past relationships with new technology, so it is funny to see how most of our interactions are through a phone, like these are. The reality of using phones for everything is that we are able to have face to face interactions, but we do it through a phone and calling somebody instead. It also shows how there is still miscommunication, and how Juliet’s plan still doesn’t get to Romeo, and Romeo makes his choices extremely quickly without thinking very hard about it.
How does the Nextel Romeo And Juliet commercial satirically update the "classic" Romeo and Juliet? What does it make you contemplate and consider? Please reference, quote, and analyze the drama and commercial. Please complete this blog response by Fri., May 18th.
The 30-second commercial goes over the basic events in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet say they love each other, Tybalt dies, Romeo is gonna get banished, Juliet drinks the stuff that makes her look dead, Romeo drinks poison, Juliet wakens, then kills herself cuz her love is dead. You can learn the whole play just by watching this commercial! Not really but the basic scenes that are key in the play.
They make it modern by using cellphones since that's how teenagers communicate now. It makes me think that its pointless to always be on your phone. They did a very good job showcasing the use of cellphones and the way it affects our youth.
It has the same story line but it is much short, with phones, and common slang. It makes fun of it by adding in the phones and the modern slang. It makes it much more commercial and makes it more about the humor than the story. It mocks the message of the story, and makes it more about their actions. They use words like “Dido,” and are constantly talking into their phones. It makes me wonder home would a love story like Romeo and Juliet take place in modern America? Would it have the same tragic end?
The Nextel commercial puts the story of Romeo and Juliet into very modern day scenario in the sense that all the characters on stage only communicate through cell phones. The use of technology also represents how Romeo and Juliet did not communicate directly, and as a result, the last miscommunication resulted in the death of both. In addition, the commercial showed how much an effect every character had on the other, and before the curtain closed it seemed as though everyone was dead or had been negatively impacted by the deaths of their loved ones. Overall, the commercial portrayed the main pieces of the play, and therefore subtly highlighted the biggest messages Shakespeare was attempting to represent.
In the Nextel commercial that involves Romeo and Juliet, it covers what the entire play is about and in a more modern way as well with the phones. It covers some of the most important events that happened in this play. It was really faced paced in the commercial which makes it even more accurate considering that in the story everything happened in a very short period of time. Romeo is announcing his love, he kills Tybalt, Juliet is told to marry and she pretends to be dead, Romeo kills Paris, Romeo kills himself and then Juliet kills herself. It is very faced paced. It makes me realize how simple but so complex Shakespeare's writing really was. The big words and big lines made it seem so long and complicated but in reality is was really short.
This version of Romeo and Juliet has technology which is an update, everyone was speaking through phones/walkie talkies. This makes me wonder what enhancements Romeo and Juliet would have if Shakespeare wrote the play in this time period, what technology would be included? would it have the same story line ? In the video both the characters died again but what would they do if instead the letters didn't get delivered, if the email sent, would they be alive ?
This Comercial shows almost everything important that happened in the play in under 30 seconds. It showed the love between Romeo and Juliet. It doesn't show anything between Juliet and Paris, but I personaly think it has the same affect even when missing some scenes or people. I think the commercial explained the whole idea of the play and the different things that were important.
This advertisement turns the classic play into a satirical modernized version. All of the communication was done through cell phones, and went through the entire play using cell phones.
This commercial covers the main plots of the play. Both show their love from the well known and common scene of the play. Also in the commercial, they used cell phones and modern phrases which
makes it easier to understand.
It makes me consider the dramatic in Romeo and Juliet and how much some things are over exaggerated. THis commercial advertises it as a very dramatic play, as in commercials and movies it is advertised as a cute love story, so it made me think of the stereotypes of romeo and juliet and the reality of it. The classic Romeo and Juliet. I like the old stereotypes to Romeo and Juliet more then the idea this commercial could put in poeples heads about it.
This commercial leaves out the first act but you really don't need it for the play to make sense. The commercial summarizes the basic story of Romeo and Juliet. Paris says to stop and then Romeo kills him, kills himself, Juliet wakes up sees Romeo is dead and kills herself. It is a quick easy to understand version of the actual play.
In the commercial it shows the entire play of Romeo and Juliet in a couple of seconds. It uses modern technology like phones to capture their communication. Using phones makes the viewers understand Romeo and Juliet easier than reading the complex play. The commercial showed the important parts of the play but made it easier to understand.
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