The result of finding the gradient of a scalar field is a vector, a quantity that has both magnitude and direction! More specifically, it is a vector function -- a function that gives us back a vector when we give it a position, i.e. a particular \(\langle x, y, z\rangle\) .
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet is a lovely, sensitive, friendly popularization of the playthe lovers, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as young and full of life as they ought to be, Italy of its time there intact, a lot made of the relationship between Romeo and Mercutio, beautifully played by John McEnery.
In 1936, John Barrymore portrayed Mercutio in George Cukor's film Romeo and Juliet opposite Leslie Howard as Romeo. In 1961, Russ Tamblyn played the Mercutio character, Riff Lorton, in the film adaptation of West Side Story, the musical modernised version of Romeo and Juliet. In 1968, John McEnery portrayed Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet.