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 today.
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It speeds everything up, but they used the phones to show that they were communicating, and how the phones sped up the story. This makes me think about why the story was so long if they could show the entire play in 30 seconds.
There is less carnage. We see romeo and juliet, paris, the nurse, tybalt, the friar. We see all the main characters. They play is all about communication. How would romeo and juliet be different shakespeare tried to make the play as short as possible. The company and the play are all about communication, or lack thereof.
The Nextel Romeo and Juliet commercial updates the classic play because it promotes how quickly the play moved. They sped up the play a lot to exaggerate the lack of communication between characters, and how there could be a lack of communication in the real world today through phones.
The commercial took the whole plot of Romeo and Juliet and condensed it into 30 seconds. It had almost all of the main characters and main events in the play. It updates the play by using the phones in the commercial and each time someone talks they use the phone.Because of the way that they talk and because they use cell phones, relates their relationship t o teenage relationships in this day and age, it makes them sound like real teenagers and they are just as dramatic as well.
The Nextel Romeo and Juliet updates the classic Romeo and Juliet because they use the phones to communicate what is going on in a faster time period. It made me think about how many people died through the play and showed the miscommunication through the characters in the play. It is very dramatic and takes all of the scenes where dramatic situations take place and compress it into a short period.
It shows by the death of Juliet's cousin, and Romeos friend, should the poisoning of Juliet and Romeo killing himself then Juliet killing herself.
This commercial makes "Romeo and Juliet" kind of modernized because they use cell phones when they communicate. It shows that the poem is very well known and also sums up the play very fast. All of the big scenes are going on in the same place and same time. There is not any or very much emotion kind of showing how the play has became more recognizable and common over time.
It makes the play move VERY fast, and instead of talking to each other face-to-face, Romeo and Juliet talk in single scetances 1-5ish words long, giving no time for any relationship or character development, not to mention that it all takes place in one scene...
It speeds up the play because they have the modernized version of technological communication. It is satirical because he says "kids" at the end because they are so stricken with love.
It made fun by making everything go fast. Instead of a really long movie explaining it it was just a 30 second ad summing it up. It had a lot of things that tied into the book like Tybalt facing Romeo, Juliet taking the potion, Romeo fight Paris and drinking the Poison and Juliet waking up and stabbing herself.
Despite the amount of communication that was shown in the commercial, it showed that there is only so many things that you can communicate people whether its from the fourteenth century or from the 2000's
It's the basic plot of Romeo and Juliet, but they use phones to communicate and makes the plot quicker. The commercial summed up the whole play. Juliet tell Romeo that she loves him and Romeo quickly responds, “Ditto.” It showed the deaths in the play and showed Juliet drinking the fake poison. When she woke up she said, "all better." This all take place in less then a minute.
The commercial makes fun of the fact that Romeo and Juliet was a play about miscommunication by advertising a product that is meant to make communication easier. They simplified the plot a lot, with quick one or two word remarks like “die!” and “ditto”. It made the whole act very rushed, similar to the play, but more exaggerated. It makes you think about the time frame of the play, the conflict and how it could have easily been resolved, and how unrealistic it is that something like Romeo and Juliet would happen in modern times.
The advertisement jabs at the lack of communication in Romeo and Juliet (which was the perpetrator of their untimely demise) and shows that it could have possibly been made better by a fast cellphone network...or not.
The flip phone was a very slow representing the slow communication causing things to be misinterpreted by other characters throughout the Play. Slow communication lead to problems snd false interpretation. This commercial did a good job of showing how timing and communication played a major role in the events occurring throughout the play Romeo and Juliet.
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