... it, with some that date back as early as 1900. Many directors have taken this play and uniquely adapted it into film while still maintaining the themes of the original play. Just about every type of genre has a film version of Romeo and Juliet. Some film versions, such as Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 ... clever of Luhrman because he is trying to modernise the original setting without losing the feeling of an open and busy area. A market square in modern America would be very strange. At the start of the scene in the Luhrman version we see the first of our families, the Montagues. They seem li...

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