One of the things that really popped out at me in the movie was the setting. This book was set the in the Elizabethan Era. That's the 1600's. Most people were poor, the place was filled with violence, religion was huge and people openly carried around arms. It's kind of hard to make that modern. But Baz Luhrmann did. In fact, at the time he was making the movie, similar things were happening in Mexico. So off to Mexico they went. I liked how Baz Luhrmann didn't just recreate the Elizabethan Era, but used real life happenings as his setting. By doing that, he made the movie all the more real.
Even the filming was real. In the scene where Mercutio died they were filming in a real hurricane. And there were others just like it that delayed filming for a while. People were also getting sick. Lurhmann was out for a week, shutting down all filming due to a tempature of 110. The head of hair and make-up was kidnapped and was only released on the payment of 300 dollars. And when he was released, he was thrown out of a car. Basically, filming took a while.
Another thing that stood out was how everything looked. Catherine Martin had a challenge in which she had to give you a time that had no date. A place that would be on the tip of your tongue, but you wouldn't be able to say what it is. "It's a celebration of the eclecticism of urbanism. A celebration of the neon sign, if you like. The kitsch, vibrant, exciting, edgy."
Finally, the thing that I loved the most was the music. It really described what the mood was in the movie. The music was a huge mix of different kinds of songs including pop, orchestral arrangements of those songs and hymn-like treatments of dance-floor hits. When the mood was sad there was slow opera music. When the mood was like a cliff hanger there was fast music. The music was telling you how to feel and I loved it.
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