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1. #ROMEO AND JULIET LEONARDO DICAPRIO FULL MOVIE 1996 MOVIE#
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#ROMEO AND JULIET LEONARDO DICAPRIO FULL MOVIE 1996 MOVIE#

The tragedy of this movie is not that the lovers might perish from poison, it’s that they’re innocent victims of stylistic overkill. Both astute performers, they put new shine on such over-familiar passages as Romeo’s "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" and Juliet’s "wherefore art thou, Romeo?" In fact, their delicate, romantic exchanges are a balm against the hyperactive subplots screaming in your face. Thanks to their attractive, disarming presence, DiCaprio and Danes provide most of the movie’s genuinely stirring elements. In Luhrmann’s scheme of things, characters’ words become intricately phrased yammerings, well-wrought nothingnesses issuing from gangsters’ mouths as they shoot pool or each other.

The barrage of stylized violence, gymnastic camera shots and other visual effects overpowers the verbal poetry - which used to be the most important aspect of a Shakespeare play. Unfortunately, this encyclopedic display isn’t inspiring, it’s simply oppressive.

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"Romeo & Juliet" is an explosion of appreciative nods to Hollywood musicals, detective TV shows, the films of Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard, Australian cult pictures (this movie could have been called "Montague, Road Warrior"), Hong Kong gangster flicks and the gangland settings of several thousand rap music videos. Luhrmann also pays homage to everything he has loved in the movies and on television.

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But the question is, how far do you take such license before losing relevance to the play?

Shakespeare wrote for the ale-drinking public, not effete, bourgeois snobs. And we’re offered such modernist line-readings as "Farewell, my Cuz." Technically, this aggressively anti-traditional approach is valid. Mercutio is a sassy African American in dreads, who dresses in drag and knows his kung fu. The Capulets are street princes in funereal black, also armed to the teeth. Luhrmann, who wrote the screenplay with Craig Pearce (his writing partner for "Strictly Ballroom"), turns the Montagues into flower-shirted, Miami Beach-like punks, who sport 9mm revolvers rather than swords. With the help of Father Laurence (Peter Postlethwaite), they get secretly married.īut the union draws the ire of Tybalt (John Leguizamo), a stalwart Capulet, who attacks Romeo, then duels with the lover’s best friend, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau). Within minutes, the smitten lovebirds are looking for ways to spoon, away from the interference of Juliet’s parents (Paul Sorvino and an amusing Diane Venora) and her Nurse (Miriam Margolyes). Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio), who knocks around with his fellow Montagues, sees Juliet (Claire Danes) at a dance and falls immediately in love. In modern-day Verona Beach, two gangs - the Capulets and the Montagues - live in a constant state of war.

But more often, it’s so overwhelming, it’ll make you want to watch "Die Hard With a Vengeance" for peace and quiet. The movie, a frenetic, explosive experience full of car crashes and gun battles, is original and exhilarating. But with "William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet," he puts Shakespeare’s greatest romance in a choke-hold and takes it slam-dancing. That ruined theatre proscenium was built just for the film.Īfter the death of Tybalt ( John Leguizamo), Romeo’s banishment sees him holed up in a trailer in the barren badlands of Texcoco, northeast of Mexico : This 'Romeo' Is Bleedingīaz Luhrmanntripped the light funtastic with "Strictly Ballroom," a fluid, freewheeling Australian comedy about ballroom dancing. ‘Sycamore Grove’, the beachfront resort where the younger members of the rival families hang out, and where the killing of Mercutio ( Harold Perrineau) triggers off the tragedy, is Boca del Rio, Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico, about 200 miles east of Mexico City.

It now houses the National History Museum. Built over the period 1780 to 1840, this was the summer house of Mexican presidents until 1940. The Capulet’s family mansion, where Romeo ( Leonardo DiCaprio) first glimpses Juliet ( Claire Danes) is Castillo de Chapultepec ( Chapultepec Palace) in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. On the opposite corner, the Banorte Bank tower became the 'Montague' HQ. The Ángel de la Independencia monument towering above the roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma is digitally replaced with that enormous statue of Christ.Ĭheekily, the Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel, Paseo de la Reforma 325, is rebranded as the 'Capulet' HQ tower block. The aerial shot of ‘Verona’ is the Zona Rosa business and shopping district of Mexico City. Baz Luhrmann’s brashly imaginative and hugely successful reinvention of the Shakespeare play sets the action in ‘Verona Beach’, seemingly in ‘Miami, but was made at the famous Churubusco Studios in Mexico City.