... written in the 1600's and set in Elizabethan England. Baz Luhrmann's version of one of Shakespeare's most loved plays portrays the classic story in a modern day setting. Luhrmann chose Verona Beach as the setting for his adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" "A sexy violent other world neither future or past" (Taken from an interview with Baz from a review website) Verona ... Beach was Luhrmann's own created world, a place based on decaying Miami and Mexico City. The prologue is cleverly updated and modernised by being displayed on television as a news report. As the ... words are said they...

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... enter the film it's almost like the opening of a popular TV show: "last week on Dawson's Creek." Just substitute William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet for the actual television show and Verona Beach for the location. This notion is further enhanced by the presentation of videoclips showing widespread carnage and hostility. What happens next, but the characters are introduced in a sort of 1970s ... -TV show-type format. Baz Luhrmann Tells the greatest love story of all time, in our time. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and...

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... of the film changes. For example in "Romeo and Juliet" the star crossed lovers have just got married and the weather is bright and sunny. Ten minutes later on Verona beach, (a totally made up set of which Luhrmann is very proud), Mercutio and Tybalt get into a fight which ends in death, the sky clouds over and inside the arch to the ... beach the weather is dark and grim with a single ray of light on the deceased Mercutio. Luhrmann also uses comedy to break up serious and intense scenes. In "Moulin Rouge" the ... ...

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... , from which she subsequently dies. Luhrmann makes his films into an almost theatrical experience. In Romeo and Juliet parts of it a re filmed with them on the stage on the beach. In Moulin Rouge commences with the opening of a red theatre curtain. Also people's clothes are exaggerated so much that it is almost as if they are costumes instead of clothes ... ...

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... . Luhrmann not only changes the background of the play, he alters the costumes of each of the cast members to blend in with modern society. He also modifies Verona into a beach, which most youth of today can associate a part of their life with. Associating oneself with a play may appear odd at first; however, it is an important role in any creation ... ...

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