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Claire Danes

Jesse Bradford

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Brian Dennehy

John Leguizamo

Miriam Margolyes

Harold Perrineau

Christina Pickles

Pete Postlethwaite

Paul Rudd

Paul Sorvino

Diane Venora

M. Emmet Walsh

Edwina Moore

Zak Orth

Jamie Kennedy

Dash Mihok

Lupita Ochoa

Gloria Silva

Vincent Laresca

Carlos Manzo

Carolyn Valero

Paco Morayta

Rodrigo Escandon

Margarita Wynne

Harriet Sansom Harris

Michael Corbett

Pedro Altamirano

Mario Cimarro

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Ismael Eguiarte

Ricardo Barona

Fausto Barona

Quindon Tarver

Alex Newman

Cory Newman

Jorge Abraham

John Sterlini

Farnesio de Bernal

Catalina Botello

Donald McAlpine

Baz Luhrmann

Doug Hardwick

Craig Pearce

David Rubin

Gabriella Martinelli

Kym Barrett

Brigitte Broch

William Shakespeare

Nellee Hooper

Catherine Martin

Jill Bilcock

Ronna Kress

Everardo Gout

Craig Armstrong

Harry Jarvis

Efren del Moral

Michael Nelson

John O'Connell

Martin Brown

Monica Castellanos

Miguel Lima

Héctor López Lechuga

Miguel Gil

Martin Walters

Grant Lucibello

Brent Woolsey

Guy Bews

Jason Glass

Ken Kirzinger

Tom Eirikson

Maurizio Silvi

Patrick McArdle

David Jacox

Alex Green

Alisarine Ducolomb

Ernie Jackson

Corry Glass

Tom Glass

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Jacob Rupp

Rebecca Marie

Rob Young

Steven R. Mathis

Ligia Ornelas

Guillermo Rosas

Ernesto Serrano

Gary Rizzo

Merrick Morton

Javier Gunther

Gareth Vanderhope

Rachel Aberly

Mario Vaccaro

Geoff Foster

Craig Carter

Steve Burgess

Gerry Long

Michael Semanick

Tristan M. Brighty

Livia Ruzic

Dennis McNeill

Hugh Waddell

Tony Sereno

Laurencio Cordero

Carlos Ponce de León

Charles Taylor

Roger Savage

Marc Corriveau

Lily Flaschner

Sydney Gilner

Jonathan Null

Ken Fischer

Jorge Guerrero

Robin Alan Knight

Tim Holland

Gary Burritt

Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz

Eugenio Caballero

Adolfo Ramírez

Mario Davignon

Melissa R. Stubbs

Jonny Greenwood

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Philip Selway

Colin Greenwood

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Part 2 of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy: <em>'Romeo + Juliet'</em>.

I remember watching a little bit of this years and years back at high school and I seem to recall enjoying it a lot. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I might've on this viewing, but it is still a film I'd recommend for sure - it's very good.

I'm yet to see a bad - heck, even a just mildly good - film from Leonardo DiCaprio, which remains the case after this. It's probably the weakest performance I've seen from DiCaprio so far, though that's just through process of elimination as he's still impressive here as Romeo. Claire Danes (Juliet) merits props, also.

John Leguizamo (Tybalt) is the pick of the rest of the cast, which also includes the likes of Paul Sorvino, Miriam Margolyes and Paul Rudd. Speaking of the casting, apparently 14-year-old Natalie Portman was originally cast to star alongside DiCaprio (then 21... dodgy!).

I love the modern day set up and how they bring this famous tale to life in it, though I do think the choice to use Shakespearean dialogue was perhaps the wrong call. It's not like I didn't appreciate it, but it does feel a bit forced and unnatural at times - still cool that they did it, mind.

Shakespeare is still getting work in Hollywood, and probably always will...

... but I like updated modern Shakespeare when it comes in the form of West Side Story, She's all That, Overboard (all the other million or so Rom-Coms based off of The Taming of the Shrew) and not when the film is modern day with Shakespearean English and... yeah.

Too much of a Juxtaposition for me.

The kind of WWII update of Richard III wasn't bad, but it wasn't really taking Richard II, putting it in a different time, and keeping almost everything else intact.

I guess what I am saying is that it didn't mesh well for me.

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Baz Luhrmann has relocated this classic to modern day Verona Beach and introduced a contemporary sound track to complement much of the original dialogue from the bard's story of true love, revenge and, quite possibly, the greatest tragedy ever written in the English language. The families "Montague" and "Capulet" have been feuding since God was a boy. The uneasy truce between them is to be severely tested when "Romeo" (Leonardo DiCaprio) and "Juliet" (Clare Danes) fall in love. Being from each of these warring tribes, they must keep their love clandestine in order to avoid conflict. As their affection grows, that secret proves harder and harder to keep - especially as "Juliet" has been betrothed and her father is determined that she shall be in the church on Tuesday next! I'm sure you all know the story of the "star-crossed lovers" and I rather enjoyed this adaptation. Unlike "Carmen Jones" (1954) which I did not think worked well being relocated, this does. The eclectic contrast between the motor cars, the revolvers and the original old English text is quite effective. The effort from DiCaprio gets better as the film progresses and by the denouement neither he nor Danes are half bad. Harold Perrineau is also competent as the brave "Mercutio" and the conniving "Tybalt" is well covered by John Leguizamo. Purists may well not admire the abridging of this lengthy story though. It is quite heavily condensed and at times that does rob the film of much of the original nuance - not that Luhrmann ever really concentrates on nuance anyway - but I'd rather look on this as an evolution of the story for modern times rather than a straight retelling. For me it worked, and is watchable still.

Why Leonardo DiCaprio was the perfect Romeo | A Life In Pictures | BAFTA

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Written by r96sk on Tue May 04 2021

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