Séance après les vacances

1. Correction du Devoir de Vacances

This is the opening scene of the film / movie / entitled Romeo and Juliet. It is a modern adaptation of the original play by William Shakespeare which was first staged in 1595.

Since it is an adaptation, we can notice that the film maker has changed some elements.

Indeed, in the 16th century, people fought with swords or daggers, they rode horses. Gas stations, the television didn't exist...

Here, we can see that swords and daggers have been replaced with firearms / weapons / guns... Cars have replaced the horses. The prologue of the play is said by a journalist / a news presenter / a news anchor. Finally, the first Italian newspaper appeared in 1639, so we can affirm that there weren't any newspapers in Shakespeare's play.

Not only has the play been modernised, but its setting has been changed to. Indeed, in Shakespeare's masterpiece, the scene was set in Italy, in 'Fair Verona'. In the motion picture by Baz Lhurmann, the story unfolds in the USA. He has moved the action from Verona to Verona Beach.

One things is almost the same: the text. The screenplay writer has just shortened it a little.

These changes and the fact that the text is almost the same gives an interesting impression of modernity without altering the feelings Shakespeare wanted to create. The poetry is intact.

Pause réflexive.

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