In the garish ball scene, on the balcony (and in the pool), but particularly in the hardship scenes, Danes is a formidable talent with breathtaking good looks. Both are ultragorgeous in the Latin-flavored decor and costumes, but more importantly they pull off the film’s tricky maneuver of using Elizabethan stage dialogue in a world of guns and cars and overnight delivery services.ĭanes is so strong as Juliet there’s a chance she’ll be remembered come awards time.
With this film and Moulin Rouge, Luhrman really does know how to push the envelope in making a movie quirky, sensual, futuristic, exciting, and still hold a decent storyline.Racing through much of the family-rivalry material in chaotic montages of ”fair Verona,” the film delivers memorable renderings of the central story’s most famous moments, while leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are superb. If you are familiar with director Baz Luhrmann then the styling of this movie will be no great surprise. ClearPlay does a great job at shortening some of the more intense fighting scenes, but this film still has a LOT of violence and explicit drug scenes, it may be a teen romance and rated for teens but it’s a movie for adults! Will You Bite your thumb.at this the story of Juliet + Romeo?.
And though I don’t think it was Shakespeare’s intention, I feel like this film took teen suicide and glamorized it. However, in the end it still really bothered me that almost every scene has a gun waving around or being shot. In my mind I tried to justify all the guns by paralleling this version with the original and how the characters must have been with their swords, being an extension to their hands. So you don’t need to worry about the language but be ready to see lots of drug use, alcohol use, fist fighting, and guns. Though this version of Romeo + Juliet has the classic dialogue and storyline, it’s still modernized and extremely eccentric and narcissistic. In this modernized Shakespearean legacy you’ll see a new flare on the same classic story and dialogue. Romeo + Juliet, star-crossed lovers in a world of tumult, fight for their right to be together despite their family’s on-going rivalry.