Romeo_And_Juliet

Romeo And Juliet Romeo and Juliet 1968:1996 Romeo and Juliet is a timeless, classic love story written by William Shakespeare in 1594. This play tells the love story of “two star—crossed lovers” in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. The title characters are Romeo and Juliet who happen to be the only children of two feuding families. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. There have been different ways of portraying Romeo and Juliet, but the two most popular film versions portray two very different styles. Franco Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet was made in 1968, and is the film version most commonly shown in classrooms. The newest film version of this play is Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet. He sets the classic story in a modern day setting. Both of these films are very similar, but also differ in many aspects. I will look at how both of these movies tell the same story, but how one director was able to change it to fit modern times. Zeferelli’s film is the older and more classical version of Romeo and Juliet. He uses the setting of Verona, and the costumes that romeo, juliet, version, play, story, love, luhrmann, film, two, scene, poison, modern, different, written, updated, time, setting, made, classic, characters, both, while, versions, times, swords, shakespeare, sees, romantic, out, one, language, dialogue, dead