Sunday, May 14, 2017
"Romeo, Gnomeo, And Juliet?"
After reading Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, what connections or satirized elements do you see employed within the brief clips we viewed in Gnomeo and Juliet?
Please be specific regarding play's characters and plot elements:
Capulets, Montagues, balcony scene, Nurse, etc... This blog response is
due by Wed., May 17th at 2:30p.m.
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One difference is that they are gnomes. All the characters are the same. The interactions between the characters the same. It is the same how there are two families that hate each other. The lawn mower racing is like racing. There is no fight in the plaza saying if anyone decided to fight they will be killed.
The connections I see with the play and the movie are the separations between the Montague's and the capulets. The differences in personalities between the two sides are also identical to the characters in the play. The one thing that I noticed a lot was how the were able to change the appearance and setting of the play but still capture the true characters.
To start, the Montagues and Capulets are neighbors which in the book there is no proof that they live next door to each other.Instead of using the lat names of both families they refer to each other as the "red" and the "blues". Right off the bat Juliet does not get along with her father which is accurate to the play. Both families hate one another so the rivalry is also very similar.
A difference is that the characters physical forms are diffrent. How the charaters act is the same as in the book. The ineratctions with diffrent characters are the same as the book. Although the scene and how each character tests their skills by racing with a lawn mower.
There are many simmilarities in regards to character roles, and there is conflict between 2 households. Instead of calling eachother "Capulets" or "Montagues", they call eachother "Reds" and "Blues", identifies by their hat color. The characters are also not human; most are gnomes while others are different garden decorations that can come to life. One of the Biggest differences between the two is that Romeo and Juliet never die in "Gnomeo and Juliet", they live a 'hapily ever after', and the fued between Reds and Blues ends.
elements from the book and movie are similar because they have the households, Verona, and most of the main charters form the original text. also Romeo and Juliet fall in love
The movie and the play have a lot of similarities such as the location. Both of the plays take place in Verona. In the opening scene, you see two mailboxes, one saying 2B and the other on having 2B crossed out. This refers to Shakespeare’s other play, Hamlet, which has the line, “To be, or not to be.” Another similarity is the rivalry between the two houses. The names of the houses in the movie is the blues vs. the reds. They also both have Tybalt and the nurse and other corresponding characters. A difference was that there was no Rosaline. Also, Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight like in the play.
The movie makes fun of the long prologue, there was allusion to other Shakespearean works as “to be or not to be” from Hamlet, Gnomeo’s father is dead and Juliet’s mother is dead in the movie and not in the book, the fights are with lawnmowers, the masks are exchanged for disguises, the balcony scene is on a greenhouse, and other puns and jokes made from the fact the characters are gnomes in a human’s garden. The details in the movie are a bit different, but the general plot is still the same.
I think the biggest difference was that Romeo's friends weren't as present here, and the way Gnomeo and Juliet met was a total divergence from the original; Juliet wanted the orchid to somehow spite the other garden's gnomes, which doesn't really correlate to anything in the original play.
In the book the family feud is very clearly shown and is also represented through the first part of the movie. The Montague and Capulet house are right next to each other and the owners of the houses did not seem fond of each other when starting out in the movie. There is also the feud between the family gnomes where there is the red and blue representing the two families. The clips of the movie show both sides trying to make their gardens more impressive and completing in a lawn mower race to symbolise the fighting between the Capulets and Montagues.
The houses are shown directly next to each other. There is already more dialogue between the two families so far. The nurse is shown as a frog symbolising that she is with the Capulets but is not related to them. They are not very familiar during the balcony scene and it was also accidental like the book. The rivalry is exaggerated from them living so close together.
The book and the movie are the same by the name Verona, Montages and Capulet's, the feud. The difference are the way they meet, Gnomeo fakes death,this story is told with gnomes, and the revenge with the bulldozer.
There are a lot of similarities between the book and the movie, the most prominent similarity to me is how their is a feud between the red gnomes (Capulet) and blue gnomes (Montague). There are a few similarities in other aspects of the book and movie. For example the lawn mower race between Romeo and Tybalt, this symbolizes the fight in the opening scene. Another thing was the balcony scene was sort of nonexistent, but there was a similar theme to the scene.
The Book and the Movie have a lot of similarities. First off in both they live in a place called Verona and they both are families of Montague and Capulet. Other similarities have to do with the characters. The main characters in the story are all adapted to the gnomes, like the nurse is the frog, and everyone else is a gnome. The lawnmower races also represent the duels that the Montagues and Capulets would have.
The movie and the play are fairly different when one looks at the characters and the setting but the plot of the movie is similar. Gnomeo and Juliet are from different gardens just like how in the play Romeo and Juliet are from opposite families that hate each other.
Tybalt and Romeo have a dual type activity to start off except it isn’t about Juliet and neither of them die. The nurse (frog) still stays by Juliet when she does something outside of her father’s permission. After Gnomeo attacks the blue garden he sees Juliet trying to retrieve a flower. They are both in disguise just like i the masquerade in the book. They touch hands and fall in love.
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