Thursday, September 4, 2008

There is a scene in the Romeo and Juliet movie that I kept thinking about in class when we were discussing the film adaptation of Leonardo and Claire. The scene, with Leonardo, showed all three things we talked about, facial expression, body language, and voice, very well. The scene was when Romeo finds out Juliet is dead. (I think in the book it is act 5 scene 1.) Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead and first his facial expression is the look of shock, and then his face scrunches up and he begins to cry. As he begins to cry he falls to his knees in a very dramatic way. Finally, when he first finds this news out his voice begins quietly and when he falls to the ground he faces the sky and screams his lines in anger. This scene is a great example of film adaptation for me. (At least after I got past the fact that Leonardo looked like his character in the movie What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.)

1 comment:

Duluoz said...

Good work, Angela. How does Leonardo's acting affect the audience's response to his character? Paul