Romeo And Juliet: Movie Analysis

Shakespeare is known for his famous play Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy love story. Romeo and Juliet have been dated in 1951, so almost four decade since the story came out. This play was recreate in a couple of movies and have been popular ever since. There are many authors that got inspired by his play and the themes of “love at first sight.” Authors who try to recreate or make a similar vision of Romeo and Juliet have not make it as good as the original. Is the recreate story of Romeo and Juliet better than the original?

Romeo and Juliet is a story of two lovers with a great tragedy. The two lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, are in two different families and have been in a feud for a while. Juliet was engaged to married Paris. In Juliet’s

13th birthday Romeo and Juliet have fall mad in love at first sight, after that day they both got married. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, found out that Romeo was at the party and got mad. So Tybalt challenge Romeo for a duel, but Romeo don’t want fight his cousin-in law. Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, wanted to fight for Romeo because Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt. When Mercutio and Tybalt was fighting Romeo try to stop the fight, but Mercutio got killed by Tybalt.
When the Prince, who rule the city, heard this new he do not want to kill Romeo so he banned Romeo from enter the city again. Juliet was miserable after she heard that Romeo is banned from enter the city and Tybalt’s death. Friar Laurence, who help Romeo and Juliet get married, have a plan in mind. His plan was to put Juliet in a coma and sending a messenger to tell Romeo about the plan. On that day when Juliet drank the potion, Romeo do not got the message from Friar Laurence but instead from Romeo’s servant that Juliet is dead. After Romeo heard that new he hurry went back to the city to see his beloved love, Juliet. On his way he met Paris who challenge Romeo for a duel, and as a result Paris die making Romeo the winner of the duel. Romeo went into the church and saw Juliet’s “dead” body and say his last farewell. He drank the poison that he was planned to die himself with and at that time Juliet woke up and saw he lay on the floor. Juliet was sad that happen and killed herself with a knife. This story do not have a happy-ever for the two protagonist.
Tori Wilson was inspired by the story of Romeo and Juliet and made a book called Unmasking Juliet.

This book was published in May 27, 2014 so around two years ago that this book was out for the public. Unmasking Juliet is a modern version of Romeo and Juliet with two different families the Arabellas and the Mezzanottes that have been a bitter feud for a while. Tori use different name for the characters from the original story like Romeo was a guy name Leo Mezzanottes. One of major different between the two story is that one have a happy ending and the other is a tragedy. Tori Wilson’s story was popular but was not as popular as Romeo and Juliet.

In conclusion there will not be a better recreate of Romeo and Juliet than the original. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers that fall in love at first sight, and have a great tragedy that happened. Tori Wilson’s story Unmasking Juliet was successful book, but it was not as popular as the original. The two story was pretty similar to each other but with a different twisted plot. In Romeo and Juliet is a story that show that people’s choice have make a big problem. There are other recreate of Romeo and Juliet That i have never seen before so that are other

option.