How do Baz Luhrmann and Shakespeare engage the audience and set up the themes of "Romeo and Juliet" in the opening scenes?

"Romeo and Juliet" is one of the most romantic tragedies ever written. Inspired by Arthur Brooke's narrative poem "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet", which was published in 1562 just fewer than thirty years before Shakespeare transformed this famous story into a dramatic piece of theatre. Two star-crossed lovers, in love but against the ethics of both their rivalling families. Shakespeare's play is set in around the 1300's in Verona, Italy, Adhering to the concept …

…of this tragedy grip us. This keeps us, as the audience, involved and also entertained by the events. Both of these directors use all of the resources they have at hand, whether it be candles and wood or cameras and sound effects, to attract us and make us want to read/watch on. Finally they arise to their expectations and we learn what the tagline "My only love sprung from my only hate" really means.