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 * My one-page essay after watching the balcony scene from //Romeo and Juliet:

The movie //Romeo and Juliet// was such a surprise to me in the ways they acted out the scene. They took one more level above the written play and really added in emotion and characteristic of both characters. It was completely different from the way I put the scene together. The motions were more dramatic and romantic and there were certainly more changes in many aspects of the plays compared to my promptbook.

There were several cuts that I did not expect in the actual play. There were a couple of cuts between the scene when Romeo and Juliet started to kiss. This part was a surprise to everyone because there were absolutely no part in the play itself where they kiss. From this part, we knew that the directors put that in so that it can be more romantic and fascinating. Other than those parts, there were several cuts in both movies when Romeo was sneaking inside Juliet’s backyard and staring at her.

From many parts of the scene, the directors really made each character’s characterization clear and bold. Just from the way Juliet talks, we can definitely tell that Juliet likes to talk and chit-chat like a teenage girl. She is very excited and hyper unlike when she was at the party. From that we can just tell how much she is excited to love Romeo and to see him in her balcony. In addition, we can take a good look Romeo’s personality just from the scene. He is very fit and athletic from the way he just hops over the huge orchard walls and climb over to the trees inside Juliet’s garden. He is also very brace and courageous for taking the risk to go over into the territory of the enemy in search of his love. Romeo is also so romantic in the manner he speaks but also very tempted in the actions he do and the words he says. He is desperate for love and also a playboy: kissing Juliet after a couple of minutes of conversation with her. Through the scene, although it was comical in one version and very romantic in the other version, we had glimpses of each character’s personality to better understand the lovers.

The tone of their voices were very similar in both the movies and my promptbook. They all sounded excited with love, hyper, crying out in nights, or speaking softer in the fear of getting caught. But overall, their tones were blind in love, saying romantic things about love. My promptbook didn’t have much tone or clarified the tone as the movies did, but I did emphasize romantic and excited tone and voice.

Their pace in the scene was fairly normal. Their pace did get faster in the end when they were in a bit hurry. Sometimes the pace did get slower when they were talking about romantic stuffs. Compared to my promptbook, it was about the same.

Their blocking in the scene was absolutely great compared to my promptbook because it had more motions between the two characters. Romeo certainly moved from the end of the field to under the nose of Juliet. Juliet also moved from the front of her balcony to the end, back and forth, several times, making the scene more realistic. Romeo and Juliet also had kissing scenes while there were none in the my promptbook. Also in the second movie, Romeo and Juliet actually had a cool scene in the swimming pool. On the other hand, my promptbook was actually quite boring in actions compared to the actual movies because all I had was actually small movements of their gestures.

Overall, the movies taught me a lot in blocking and different aspects of the play. Watching the movies was a fun experience where I can look at the different ways the authors analyzed the written play.