Baz Luhrmann’s film Romeo & Juliet (1996) is a modern day re-telling of Shakespeare’s play of the same name. However, Luhrmann choses to re-tell the tale in a modern day context, setting the tale over 400 years after its original published date. Although, Luhrmann decided to keep the language and dialogue style of the original tale. This modern/vintage fusion used by Luhrmann was met with positive to mixed reviews. Mrs Maslin of the New York Times found the style of language to be inconsistent with the post-modern setting of the film. “The biggest inconsistency to Mr. Luhrmann's approach involves the language of the play, which is treated as sacrosanct when everything else about the film reflects radical revisionism” (Maslin. J, 1996). Her
