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Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet Of 1996

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“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love, it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.” Therefore, in Romeo and Juliet of 1996, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet, Juliet falls in love with her enemy and she did not know that he was her enemy. The screenplay for the 1996 movie was written by Craig Pearce, based on the play by William Shakespeare. The director, Baz Luhrmann, had scenes where they were expeditiously fast. Baz did this because they were fight scenes and this was effectively done to get to the scenes that need more time. The characters’ emotions are shown very well through the movie. A possible theme for Romeo and Juliet could be “don’t let your family get in the way of your love”.
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The part where Juliet puts the gun to her head in front of the Friar shows how she really wants to die because it shows on her face and in her eyes. The film shows more emotions when Romeo drops his gun after he kills Tybalt and a tear drops from his eye.
A theme of this story is “don’t let your family get in the way of your love”. In Romeo and Juliet, they get married behind their parents back and it ends badly. When they got married, it was all happy and joyful. Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin) gets involved when Romeo is at the party. Tybalt wants to fight Romeo so that is one way that the family gets in the way of their love. Another way the family got involved was when Capulet was trying to marry Juliet to Paris.
The Romeo and Juliet story emotions have been shown very well throughout the film. The actors showed their emotions better in this 1996 film, than they did in the older film. Baz was able to effectively show scenes even when they were fast moving and with the theme as “don’t let family get in the way,” it was an amazing

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