In the 1996 film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet, the director has exchanged the original setting of Verona, Italy, for a modern Verona Beach, California backdrop. ... The film's creators chose to stick as close to the storyline as they could while still maintaining the present day urban setting. ... Shakespeare had Romeo fall in a corner, and Juliet did not discover him immediately upon awakening. ...

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The modern movie version of the play, Romeo and Juliet, differs from Shakespeare's play in setting and clothing, how the characters meet, how the lovers take their lives, and how the music as well as the use of color helps to set the mood. ... There are many different settings as well as different scenes in both the play and in the movie. ... In both the movie and the book Romeo sees Juliet lying there and assumes she is dead, so he drinks the poison that Friar Lawrence made for him, he soon sees Juliet awakening and he instantly dies; Juliet then kills herself with a gun in the mo...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlie...

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