After watching the first scenes in Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the students are writing an explanation of an aspect of the film that is original – not in the script – but that in some way develops or reflects ideas that are present in the script.
Henry gave the example where Romeo co-incidentally seeing the TV show where the Capulet Party was being discussed was a good interpretation of their encountering the servant with the guest list on the street because it still contained that element of chance that’s important to Shakespeare’s over-all themes.
Your homework is to complete writing up this task.
