2015년 10월 13일 화요일

Blog Post #4 - Unit 6 (Explanatory essay about the importance of place in a movie or book)

Letters to Juliet – Verona, Italy

Do you know that Verona is the background of the famous love story, ‘Romeo and Juliet’? Maybe we all know the place became well known as a city of love because of the story. Many works based on it have been released. This movie is also the one of them. Lots of parts in the original story are shown in this movie. So, the city is very important thing in the movie because the novel, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is used as a main material.
The first scene of the movie begins in workplace of Sophie. She works as a data inspector in publishing company. But she wants to be a writer. She chose to go to Verona on her honeymoon and has a plan to write a novel there. In Verona, she meets women working under the name of ‘Secretary of Juliet’. They answer letters that women throughout the world left at ‘Juliet’s House’. The letters are mostly about love. She gets along well with them and takes part in the work. Claire received an answer from her and comes to Verona with her grandson to find her first love. She decides to help her find him. So, they travel Verona together. In addition, she starts to write a story based on Claire’s love story and their trip to find her first love. These matters could not happen in other places because she decides to go there for her honeymoon and writing with her inspiration from Verona.
Verona became known for a city of love because of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. And main materials in the movie are based on this novel. The real story begins in the Juliet’s House. And she gets impressed by ‘Secretary of Juliet’. From this event, the movie is progressed. Also, there are some similarities between this movie and the original story, ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Like Juliet, Sophie has a fiance, but she falls in love with another man. The famous scene in the novel that Romeo and Juliet confirm their love in the balcony, it is shown in the movie, too. Sophie and Charlie confess their love in the balcony.

If the city were not Verona, there was nothing in the movie. To bring success in love of the movie, the story is going by the novel based on Verona. And the heroine, Sophie, has her own feeling of love about Verona. Some people can think it is a banal love story, but with full of love, it arouses a desire to leave to Verona right now. Don’t you want to leave to Verona to find your real love?

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