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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful classic love story of two star crossed lovers, but it gets tragic.
For about the last month or so, we have been reading the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. We have also watched three different versions of it. We have watched the 1996 one with Leonardo Dicaprio, The original 1968 version, and the 2013 Live Broadway Production version. All three of these movies have a lot in common but they also have many differences.
Let’s talk about what all three of them have in common first. Well first off, they all have the same characters, follow the same religon line, have the same story line and they all talk in the exact same way (in a way nobody can understand). In the end, they all end tragically with Romeo and Juliet killing themselves. Aside from the location differences, here are the differences and the similarities between the three versions of Romeo and Juliet we watched in class.
The biggest difference I noticed was in the 1996 version with Leonardo Dicaprio. In the end, of course Juliet took the potion to put her in a deep sleep and then Romeo runs in and he finds her in the tomb. That did happen in this version. However, right when Romeo drinks the last of the poison, Juliet wakes up and he sees her. Instead of taking a dagger and piercing her abdomen, Juliet shoots herself in the temple of her head. This is by
Just like the 1996 version, this play took a major modern twist on the story. In this version, some of the characters were wearing leather jackets, jeans, combat boots, and other modern clothing items. The also used motorcycles in this version. The Montague family was very modern, while the Capulet family was more olden time. The royal and “important” people were dressed up and jeweled out, but the lower classes, they wore the shapeless, loose, baggy clothing. For weapons in this version, they had guns, whips, knives, and

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