Romeo and Juliet The Movie

When I first saw Romeo and Juliet I was amazed by the effects and the story surrounding it. This version of Romeo and Juliet is a wildly passionate love story that captures the brightly burning emotions of youth.

Baz Luhrmann the director of Romeo and Juliet takes Shakespeare’s famous play and updates it to the hip modern suburb of Verona but still retaining its original dialogue. The gun – toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers, their tragic destiny. It is a rivalry between the Hispanic Montague’s and the punk Capulet’s. Luhrmann wanted a realistic updating of the famous Shakespeare story so he decided to present the Montague and the Capulet family as rich people in a modern world. In the original Shakespeare play the families were wealthy so Luhrmann is trying to stick to the story as much as possible in this tale.

When Baz Luhrmann chose Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as Romeo and Juliet because he was hoping to make a Romeo and Juliet that was accessible to young audiences. He wanted the perfect couple, good looking a

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The world of Verona is violent and cruel while the world of Romeo and Juliet is a perfect, loving atmosphere. She finishes off with these words used in very version of Romeo and Juliet before changing to the next story. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings, The sun for sorrow will not show his head, Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things, Some shall be pardoned, and some punished, For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Harold Perrineau (Mercutio) and John Leguizamo (Tybalt) were chosen because they are the typical type to play that character. nd youthful so his choice of main actors is therefore… one word love. John was able to give this bad boy image for Tybalt while Harold was able to make Mercutio funny and charming yet a perfect fighter when need be. Luhrmann is trying to show by this that she is pure, kind and very beautiful just like an Angel.

The setting I would say is mostly in two worlds, the world of Romeo and Juliet and the world of Verona. Miriam Margolyes tends toward caricature as a Hispanic Nurse, but is always understandable and occasionally funny, while Peter Postlethwaite turns in the films strongest performance as the morally ambiguous “Father Laurence”

For the play Luhrmann gives each actor a different type of style of clothing to suit his or her characters though he makes sure it’s very modern. Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet is really a movie that young audiences can relate to. Romeo is dressed as a knight in shining armour about to rescue the damsel in distress.

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