Overview
This film is a transposition of Shakespeare's play into the present day, with swords replaced by guns and castles with skyscrapers, and was directed to a younger, modern audience. However, the film retains Shakespeare's original dialogue for each of the characters. The plot of the film stays true to the play for the most part, with the exception of some minor changes in line locations and, even, giving lines to different people.
Much of the film's story takes place in the fictional "Verona Beach". At the center of the city are two skyscrapers, one topped with "Montague" and the other topped with "Capulet", suggesting that the warring patriarchs are the heads of successful corporations of some sort.
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Instead of swords, the characters wield guns with fictional brand names like "Sword 9mm" or "Dagger"; Lord Montague's "Longsword" is a South African MAG-7 shotgun.
In the initial scene, the lines of the Montague and Capulet servants are swapped, until Tybalt enters the scene.
The prince is renamed "Captain Prince". Instead of being Prince of Verona, he is the Chief of the Verona Beach Police Department, and either drives or flies an armed helicopter. His relationships to Mercutio and to Paris (called "Dave Paris" in the movie) are removed from the film.
Mercutio's "Queen Mab" is an ecstacy-like drug in the form of a pill that Romeo takes before attending the Capulet party.
Although most of the fights are done with guns instead of swords, Mercutio's death comes when he is stabbed by Tybalt with a large shard of glass on the beach.
Instead of chasing Tybalt on foot, Romeo and Tybalt engage in a car chase. Romeo crashes out Tybalt's car by the central fountain of the city, after which they fight to Tybalt's death.
Mantua is depicted as a desert-like hinterland.
The dialogue of death scene of Romeo and Juliet is moved around so that Juliet wakes as Romeo drinks the poison, and he dies in her arms. Juliet's soliloquy is removed completely, and she wordlessly commits suicide with Romeo's gun.
Paris is not killed by Romeo.
Friar Lawrence gives the postal service a letter to mail to Romeo in Mantua telling him of the plan with Juliet. In the play, Friar John is supposed to deliver the letter, but is quarantined.
This film is a transposition of Shakespeare's play into the present day, with swords replaced by guns and castles with skyscrapers, and was directed to a younger, modern audience. However, the film retains Shakespeare's original dialogue for each of the characters. The plot of the film stays true to the play for the most part, with the exception of some minor changes in line locations and, even, giving lines to different people.
Much of the film's story takes place in the fictional "Verona Beach". At the center of the city are two skyscrapers, one topped with "Montague" and the other topped with "Capulet", suggesting that the warring patriarchs are the heads of successful corporations of some sort.
[edit] Noted changes
Instead of swords, the characters wield guns with fictional brand names like "Sword 9mm" or "Dagger"; Lord Montague's "Longsword" is a South African MAG-7 shotgun.
In the initial scene, the lines of the Montague and Capulet servants are swapped, until Tybalt enters the scene.
The prince is renamed "Captain Prince". Instead of being Prince of Verona, he is the Chief of the Verona Beach Police Department, and either drives or flies an armed helicopter. His relationships to Mercutio and to Paris (called "Dave Paris" in the movie) are removed from the film.
Mercutio's "Queen Mab" is an ecstacy-like drug in the form of a pill that Romeo takes before attending the Capulet party.
Although most of the fights are done with guns instead of swords, Mercutio's death comes when he is stabbed by Tybalt with a large shard of glass on the beach.
Instead of chasing Tybalt on foot, Romeo and Tybalt engage in a car chase. Romeo crashes out Tybalt's car by the central fountain of the city, after which they fight to Tybalt's death.
Mantua is depicted as a desert-like hinterland.
The dialogue of death scene of Romeo and Juliet is moved around so that Juliet wakes as Romeo drinks the poison, and he dies in her arms. Juliet's soliloquy is removed completely, and she wordlessly commits suicide with Romeo's gun.
Paris is not killed by Romeo.
Friar Lawrence gives the postal service a letter to mail to Romeo in Mantua telling him of the plan with Juliet. In the play, Friar John is supposed to deliver the letter, but is quarantined.
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