In the movie they used guns instead of swords, daggers or other Renaissance era weaponry. At the very beginning of the movie a reporter on television said the prologue instead of a person just saying it. Instead of sending servants to get or send information, in the movie they had the news. In the movie they used cars instead of horses. In the movie the Capulets had a surveillance instead of having watchmen outside their house. At the beginning when the servants fight they met at a gas station instead of on the streets, and Tybalt and Benvolio fight. The whole setting of the movie seemed like the bad parts of California and mafia related, and instead of two different families in a fight it seemed like it was two different gangs. At the party
