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Death-Marked Love

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A Star-Crossed Review of Death-Marked Love.

Today I have just finished watching the movie Romeo and Juliet, and I’d like to give my personal opinion of the movie. The movie has tons of love scenes and fights. The company Paramount Pictures published the movie in 1968. The director was Franco Zeffirelli. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is relatively simple. Romeo goes to a ball, Juliet is there, Romeo see Juliet, and he falls in love. The same night, Juliet falls in love with Romeo. The movie takes place in Verona, Italy. The main characters are Romeo and Juliet, two young lovers whose families have been feuding. The story is about the two lovers trying to be together, but their families constantly get in the way.
For the most part, the actors did fairly well. I especially enjoyed the performance of Romeo, played by Leonard Whiting. He brought Romeo to life but not in an overly exaggerated way. Juliet, played by Olivia Hussey, also did a decent job. However, when it came to trying scenes, she did that same crying voice and pose. It got repetitive towards the end and killed the moments that were supposed to be heart wrenching. The Nurse and Priest did an excellent job, but I expected that from veteran actors. …show more content…

Not because it’s a bad production, it’s actually fairly good for its age, but because I just don’t have anybody I know who would enjoy watching the movie. The MPAA rating for Romeo and Juliet is PG. I don’t agree with that rating myself. I think it should be PG-13, for a couple of reasons. One, there’s that mild nudity scene that we skipped over, the multiple deaths, and lastly two people commit suicide over each other! That is not a great message to send to kids! With PG-13, at least kids in that age bracket would know that committing suicide over a five day romance is a dumb idea. Also that you don’t actually have to be married and have a kid by the age of

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