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.
And yet Romeo, his face not quite yet integrated, and Juliet, with a special lady quality of lust, work absolutely rightas do Natasha Parry, as the classic beauty, Lady Capulet, or Robert Stephens, as the wise, liberal Prince of Verona. Milo O'Shea plays Friar Laurence, rather as a modern, radical-understanding dean.