Romeo and Juliet The Movie

When I first saw Romeo and Juliet I was amazed by the effects and the story surrounding it. This version of Romeo and Juliet is a wildly passionate love story that captures the brightly burning emotions of youth. Baz Luhrmann the director of Romeo and Juliet takes Shakespeare’s famous play and updates it to the hip modern suburb of Verona but still retaining its original dialogue. The gun – toting members of the families wage …

…image gets smaller as the television recedes into a black distance. The music in the scene that reminds us most of these two lost lives swells. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings, The sun for sorrow will not show his head, Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things, Some shall be pardoned, and some punished, For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”