To begin with, The Zeffirelli and the Luhrmann movies are both very different versions of Romeo and Juliet. The Zeffirelli is a 1968 version that is more old school it shows more background information as if we were really there during the time it happened and it has a lot more specific details. On the other hand, the Luhrmann movie is from 1997 and it’s more of a modern-day version it doesn’t really capture the main background points. In the meanwhile, I will explain how the two versions of the death scene are highly different from each other based off of both scenes. First of all, both directors filmed their movies in separate locations. In the Zeffirelli movie, the whole movie was filmed in Italy and in the Luhrmann movie it was filmed in two different locations from Miami to Mexico City. While the Zeffirelli death scene caused the audience to feel sorrow and sad because of the details and the mood they set the scene in. The first version looked more realistic than the Luhrmann movie because it was dark, dusty, it had no lights and it was full of dead bodies. The …show more content…
Then, later on, she shoots herself with a gun and this scene creates more tension and it makes the audience feel shocked and that’s the ending; it leaves us in a tensified mood. In the 1968 version, the director made us feel sadder because she stabs herself and they both die whilst Juliet is on top of him but in the end, it shows the families and nuns and everyone with Juliet and her lover on separate beds. After the deaths, Friar Lawrence confesses he was in on it and then both families agreed to stop feuding because of what was caused. The prince of Verona had ended the movie of saying some sad final words. The audience is left with a sad tone and a lonely