The play takes place in Verona, Italy in the 1500’s while the movie takes place in Verona beach California in the 1990’s. One of the things that makes it more modern is the use of guns instead of swords. It would have been weird for the characters walking down the streets with swords in the modern time of the movie, so I believe this detail fits well. Another difference is that the party at the Capulet house was more of a dress up party rather than the masquerade ball they have in the play. I think that some of these differences make both movie and play look like a joke and not a serious romance like Shakespeare most likely intended it to be. Romeo is one of the two main characters in Romeo and Juliet. The Romeo in the play is portrayed as a dramatic, ambitious teenager in love. The Movie did a great job representing this, but it also brought in an overly crazy side of Romeo. He is a Montague who falls in love with Juliet quickly, and those two are kept the same between the two versions. Romeo also kills himself in both and says, “Thus with a kiss, I die” (V.iii.
The play takes place in Verona, Italy in the 1500’s while the movie takes place in Verona beach California in the 1990’s. One of the things that makes it more modern is the use of guns instead of swords. It would have been weird for the characters walking down the streets with swords in the modern time of the movie, so I believe this detail fits well. Another difference is that the party at the Capulet house was more of a dress up party rather than the masquerade ball they have in the play. I think that some of these differences make both movie and play look like a joke and not a serious romance like Shakespeare most likely intended it to be. Romeo is one of the two main characters in Romeo and Juliet. The Romeo in the play is portrayed as a dramatic, ambitious teenager in love. The Movie did a great job representing this, but it also brought in an overly crazy side of Romeo. He is a Montague who falls in love with Juliet quickly, and those two are kept the same between the two versions. Romeo also kills himself in both and says, “Thus with a kiss, I die” (V.iii.