Romeo + Juliet (1996) This version of William Shakespeare’s classic play features Mercurio as an African-American drag queen, a CNN-style TV news anchor filling the role of the Shakespearean chorus, and an editing style more suited to music videos than feature films. The film maintains the ...
“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town,” recorded for a BBC session in 2005. But its other non-original was a song from sessions at London’s Abbey Road, when they cut a version of theDire Straitsstaple “Romeo & Juliet,” written of course by Knopfler, and first...
In this famous party scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet, Australian director Baz Luhrmann draws viewers into the decadent upper circles of a “created world” he calls Verona Beach. The gaudy costumes, pulsing neon lights, castles and fast, futuristic cars speak of ostentatious wealth and p...
He charged that Frankie and his mother had burst into his Dallas home wielding pistols, raced into the bedroom where Janet was supposedly staying for the night, and dragged her away as she kicked and screamed. Yet when a Dallas police detective questioned Janet, she said she had not been ...
Romeo + Juliet(1996) Plot summary ★★★☆ (10 votes) Add something Mistakes Quotes Pictures Questions Trivia Corrections Ending Plot More William Shakespeare's tragic tale of love and death goes like this:RomeoMontague andJulietCapulet, of the houses of Montague and Capulet, are sworn enemies...