Baz Luhrmann

The creative process, underlying all parts of the artistic career of Baz Luhrmann, worldly renowned Australian director, has roots in various creative theories, but can be found most similar to the one recognized by the theorist and artist David Usher. For the last two decades, the few works produced by Baz Luhrmann have shocked and at the same time captured audiences with their pure, different and untypical view of the cinema (from Strictly Ballroom (1992) to Great Gatsby (2013)), therefore raising questions about the processes that the director undertakes in order to achieve this level of creativity (IMDb). In his book Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything, David Usher talks about different fundamentals of creative…

Baz Luhrmann was born in Sydney in the year 1962. His father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station and a movie theatre while his mother, Barbara Carmel, was a ballroom dance teacher and dress shop owner. Luhrmann was a ballroom dancer as a child and this along with his mother being a ballroom dancing teacher gave him the inspiration for the film Strictly Ballroom. He was raised in Herons Creek, a tiny rural settlement, in northern New South Wales and attended St Paul 's College. During college…

Baz Luhrmann has shown straight away that this is a modern adaptation of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and this film heavily involves religion, only within the introduction. Compared to the Zefirelli film, it is almost the opposite. Luhrmanns prologue leaves and impact that it is going to be a dramatic movie. Zefirellis is very traditional and calm, set out like a fairytale. It also goes straight into the first scene, while Luhrmanns introduces and names the characters. As soon as the Zefirelli…

Symbolism and characterization are used as key tools in Baz Luhrmann's films, The Great Gatsby and Strictly Ballroom, to enhance the films' intention, plot line and character development. Luhrmann's evolution as a director is clearly illustrated through the increasingly advanced integration and execution of filmic elements when comparing these two films. In Strictly Ballroom Luhrmann uses costume and props to symbolise Fran's character and her role in the plot. Fran approaches Scott in the dance…

The Rebellion The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, and the film Strictly Ballroom by Baz Luhrmann are two examples of storytelling in which the main protagonist struggles in expressing their own spice of individuality in their society. The boy in The Ocean at the End of the Lane is an odd character as he is placed into almost two different planes of existance and is forced to find his personal strengths and weaknesses, while Scott Hastings in Strictly Ballroom is a…

Australian films: analytical Essay The films that we are using are shine and strictly Ballroom. They are both Australian films. The question that was chosen to relate to the film is 'many Australian films explore the concept of 'overcoming adversity' common to films from many countries but they explore it in a manner unique to Australia and embrace the 'Aussie battler' or 'Aussie hero' icon.' Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 rom-com directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and is the first in his…

William Shakespeare. I call quite the attention of the clip directed by Baz Luhrmann in 1996 and that is why I will go with that one. The theme of Romeo and Juliet is simple to handle because you can say that it handles three issues in my opinion. The hatred is in the confrontation maintained by Capulets and Montescos that frames the extraordinaire relationship between Romeo and Juliet. Love, the passion that lovers drive is overflowing and frenetic, can be observed in the short period of six…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

In the film, Australia, Baz luhrman focuses on the power of belonging. This is shown through Nullah, Lady Sarah Ashley and Drover as the film progresses each character finds their belonging and identity. Baz Luhrman uses different camera techniques, such as different camera angles and music to intensify different scenes and represent different points of the film. Through these three characters Baz Luhrman explores the idea of belonging in Australia and how each person’s identity is important and…

Director Baz Luhrmann of The Great Gatsby aimed to bring to life F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic to life. Throughout the film Luhrmann shows the drama, sadness, and you get to see the party atmosphere. Luhrmann also portrays the characters pretty accurately to Fitzgerald’s novel, and to most of the settings that are mainly touched such as the Valley of Ashes, Gatsby’s house, and the Buchanan's house. As well as, uses mainly all of the appropriate music of a combination of both jazz and…