William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Baz Luhrmann's dazzling and unconventional adaptation of William Shakespear's classic love story is spellbinding. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes portray Romeo and Juliet, the youthful star-crossed lovers of the past. But the setting has been moved from it's Elizabethan origins to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.
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Run Time
120 mins.
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, John Leguizamo, Paul Sorvino, Pete Postlethwaite
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Blu-ray
Product DetailsAudio: English: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio / Spanish: 5.1 Dolby Digital / French: 51DTS Language: Dubbed: English, French & Spanish / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1
**Shaking Up Shakespeare Picture-in-Picture Mode with Audio Commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald M. McAlpine and Craig Pearce and featuring Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Stills
**Uncut Footage from the Bazmark Vault
**Romeo + Juliet: The Music
**Filmmaker and Interview Galleries
**BD-LIVE: Live Lookup™ powered by IMDb®
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Product DetailsAudio: English 5.1 DTS, English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1
**Theatrical Feature
**MUSIC MACHINE Feature Lets the Viewer Jump to Individual Songs Throughout the Film
**3 AUDIO COMMENTARIES With Director Baz Luhrmann, Co-Composer Craig Armstrong and Co-Composer Marius De Vries
**ROMEO + JULIET: THE MUSIC With Director Baz Luhrmann, Co-Composer Craig Armstrong and Co-Composer Marius De Vries
**THE LONDON MUSIC MIX Featurette
**JOURNEY OF THE SONG Featurettes “Young Hearts Run Free,” “Everybody’s Free,” and Temp Music
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Original classification rating: M. This clip chosen to be PG
Clip description
A TV news reporter describes a bitter rivalry in the city of Verona Beach. Engaged in the deadly feud are Romeo’s Montague family and the Capulet family of Juliet.
Curator’s notes
The opening of Romeo + Juliet is a bold statement of intent. This is not 'straight’ Shakespeare. The play’s prologue is read by a TV news reporter and the rapidly edited images that follow are used to identify key members of the Montague and Capulet families. The arresting introduction gives audiences a visually seductive snapshot of what’s to follow.
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This clip shows the prologue to Romeo + Juliet, director Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s play. Luhrmann uses the prologue to locate the action in the contemporary fictional city of Verona Beach, USA, and to introduce the feuding families – the Montagues and Capulets. A television news broadcaster, reading Shakespeare’s original text, foretells the events that will lead to the tragic deaths of the young lovers. The action builds in a dramatically edited montage that includes images of violence and grief, intertitles and an operatic score that reaches a crescendo with the title.
Educational value points
- While retaining Shakespeare’s original text, Luhrmann appeals to a young audience by setting his film version of Romeo + Juliet in a contemporary city, with corporate warring families as the protagonists. The cinematography, rapidly edited montage sequence and modern soundtrack produce the cinematic feel of a music video or movie trailer. Phrases from the prologue appear onscreen as written text as they are spoken, helping the viewer to understand Shakespeare’s language.
- The prologue of Romeo + Juliet draws the audience into the world of the story by outlining the setting, the characters and the plot to come. These kinds of prologues are often in the form of a sonnet (a rhyming poem of 14 lines) and are read by a chorus or narrator. In this adaptation, a television newsreader and the narrator of a movie-trailer-style sequence replace the chorus. The movie trailer supports the foreshadowing in the prologue by showing future images from the film.
- The visual signs, images and text used in this clip support Shakespeare’s language to convey the ‘ancient grudge’ between the Montagues and Capulets. Potent images of office towers bearing the families’ names represent their economic dominance and their rivalry. The recurring images of a statue of Christ signal a moral tale of love, violence and death. The intertitles and news headlines emphasise the violent phrases ‘new mutiny’ and the spilling of ‘civil blood’.
- This clip illustrates Luhrmann’s integration of contemporary film styles with Shakespeare’s poetic language. The first shot of the pinpointed television screen is a cue to the viewer that this will be a modern interpretation. The zoom shots and camera angles of the narrated trailer sequence provide visual sweeps of the metropolis of Verona Beach and intimate close-ups of death and loss.
- The clip introduces the warring families that are central to the tragedy. In Shakespeare’s play the families are wealthy merchants, and similarly in Luhrmann’s adaptation Ted Montague (Brian Dennehy) and Fulgencio Capulet (Paul Sorvino) are rival heads of corporate conglomerates. Headshots of the protagonists, except Romeo and Juliet, are intercut with images of the aftermath of a violent street war, suggestive of a major crime scene.
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