... Ginn Welcome to Verona Beach, a sexy, violent other-world, neither future nor past, ruled by two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets... So begins Baz Luhrmann's production of Shakespeare's beloved play, "Romeo and Juliet," from the famous opening line of "Two Households both alike in dignity.." to the tragic end, the viewer is whisked away into thedepths?of heightened realism in ... of Verona Beach. Casting includes Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Juliet as well as great performances by John Leguizamo (Tybalt) and, Harold Perrineau (Mercutio). Danes brings life...

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... , love within the two families and love between friends. In Act 1 scene 1, Romeo even says here's much to do with hate, but more with love, showing great insight in describing the feud between the families as a form of love, after all there is a fine line between love and hate. Obviously, the most important type of love is between Romeo and Juliet but without the other types would ... it seem as real? Sampson and Gregory speak of the first form of love we meet in extremely crude ways ... talking adds a great amount of playful excitement to the scene, especially on stage. The audience wi...

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... -invented again with the younger generation through Romeo and Juliet, taking away the perception of Shakespeare as being a boring English class siting and reading through plays, and the idea of a musical film was re-invented in Moulin Rouge. All of these factors draw the audience further into the films allowing them to connect on a more personal level and relate to each one in a specific way. The three films ... the ending to be visualised on screen, as they already know it is going to happen but are more interested in how it will be portrayed. This factor is highly relevant in Moulin Ro...

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... in a play, due to the fact that language is the reader's personal link to the play's story line. Through the use of good language, the author is able to maintain a firm grasp on the reader's attention. Another powerful part of the play is the scenery. The scenery involved throughout the ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. The most powerful aspect of any Shakespearean play is the dialect contained throughout the literary ...

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