... Set in Miami, this adaptation uses authentic Shakespearean language. This relentlessly paced MTV-style film is an updating of the tale. It uniquely combines modern day setting and characters withtheoriginallanguage. The main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are transformed into young Miami teenagers of the nineties. Even though the presentation of the play ... for a while. As a good friend of Romeo, Mercutio would do what a good friend would do, and stick up for Romeo. Tybalt beats Romeo down before Mercutio intervenes. This shows the audience that this is a good reason for Mercutio to inter...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... of an open and busy area. A market square in modern America would be very strange. In the Zefferelli version, the director has tried to replicate the setting and atmosphere of the original, using a typical market square from the time that the play was written, this might seem to the audience as a more ... , Tybalt doesn't do much in the way of endangering Romeo's life, but Mercutio seems like he wants a fight. In the Luhrman version however, Tybalt beats Romeo down before Mercutio intervenes. This shows the audience that this is a good reason for Mercutio to intervene, but in Zefferelli...

• Word Count: 5983
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: High School