Romeo And Juliet Play Vs Movie

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The first thing we watched was a play more of a modern day play version of romeo and juliet, They used different races of people for the movies or play. The play and movies used different weapons ,and wore different costume for the same roles.They all had there own way or version of Romeo and Juliet. They all had similar scenes ,but had there own twist to them to make their version different. Each character was different in all of what we watched but overall the same. The movies were more action packed ,and you could redo thing if you messed up. The play it was live you couldn't do a redo. You just had to go on even though you made that mistake. Juliet died differently in all three but the sane people died in all three may have been different

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