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Since the invention of the motion picture in 1894, Romeo and Juliet has been one of
the most popular stories in films. Numerous movies have been based on Shakespeare’s
famous love story, the earliest dating bacit to 1900. Many directors have taken this
famous play and made it into a film, trying to keep to the themes of the original story.
One of them is Baz Luhrmann. His version of Romeo and Juliet, produced in 1996,
has been described as an original, post-modern version of Shakespeare’s tragic love story.
W ith this extremely successful film, Luhrmann has managed to update the story -
by combining modern-day settings and characters with almost the original language.
The story is set in Miami. The changes in the language, together with dramatic gun
fights and passionate love scenes, make the story more accessible to modern audiences.
In Luhrmann’s version of the film, the main characters, Romeo (Leonardo di Caprio)
and Juliet (Clare Danes), are Miami teenagers of the nineties. Even though the setting
of the film is very unconventional, it contains all the themes of the original version,
because it does not change the story at all.