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Directed by | Baz Luhrmann |
Produced by | Baz Luhrmann Gabriella Martinelli |
Written by | William Shakespeare (Play) Craig Pearce (Screenplay) Baz Luhrmann (Screenplay) |
Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio Claire Danes John Leguizamo Harold Perrineau Pete Postlethwaite Paul Sorvino Brian Dennehy Paul Rudd Vondie Curtis-Hall Miriam Margolyes Jesse Bradford Dash Mihok |
Music by | Nellee Hooper (Composer) Craig Armstrong (Composer) (Orchestrator) (Conductor) Marius De Vries (Composer) |
Cinematography | Donald McAlpine |
Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
November 1, 1996 | |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $14,500,000 (estimated) |
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an Academy Award nominated 1996Americanmovieadaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedyRomeo and Juliet. It was directed by AustralianBaz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the title roles.
The movie is a version of Shakespeare's play designed to appeal to a younger modern audience. It is set in present-day fictional Verona Beach, Florida, but uses the style of language from the original novel. The fighting families (the Montagues and the Capulets) are represented as competing business empires, swords are replaced by guns etc. Despite the adaptation, the movie retains Shakespeare's original dialogue, though edited for modern cinema audiences.
Cast[change | change source]
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo Montague
- Claire Danes as Juliet Capulet
- John Leguizamo as Tybalt Capulet
- Harold Perrineau as Mercutio
- Brian Dennehy as Ted Montague
- Dash Mihok as Benvolio Montague
- Christina Pickles as Caroline Montague
- Paul Sorvino as Fulgencio Capulet
- Diane Venora as Gloria Capulet
- Miriam Margolyes as Nurse Angelica
- Paul Rudd as Dave Paris
- Pete Postlethwaite as Friar Lawrence
- Vondie Curtis-Hall as Captain Escalus Prince
- Jesse Bradford as Balthasar
- M. Emmet Walsh as Apothecary
- Zak Orth as Gregory
- Jamie Kennedy as Sampson
Response[change | change source]
Critics gave the movie good reviews. On the review given by Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of critics gave the movie positive reviews, based on 38 reviews.[1]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times disliked the movie, giving it 2 stars and said 'This production was a very bad idea. I have never seen anything remotely approaching the mess that the new punk version of Romeo & Juliet makes of Shakespeare's tragedy.' Ebert wrote that Pete Postlethwaite and Miriam Margolyes were 'the only actors in the movie who seem completely at home' and said 'In one grand but doomed gesture, writer-director Baz Luhrmann has made a movie that (a) will dismay any lover of Shakespeare, and (b) bore anyone lured into the theater by promise of gang wars, MTV-style.'[2]
The movie won several awards.[3] At the Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio won the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor and director Baz Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer Award. Luhrmann was also nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑'William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet - Rotten Tomatoes'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-10-13.
- ↑Roger Ebert (1996-11-01). ':: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Romeo & Juliet'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ 3.03.1https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/awards Retrieved 2007-10-14
Other websites[change | change source]
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- Romeo + Juliet on IMDb
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Synopsis
Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Read +-Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
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