I have forever had a fascination with the Shakespearian play ""Romeo and Juliet"". ... I used my knowledge of the techniques and factors that were relevant during Elizabethan times and which Shakespeare included in ""Romeo and Juliet"" to develop a modern transformation of the play, the film ""Romeo Must Die"". ... However in ""Romeo and Juliet"" violence is played out only as a result of a deep hatred and rage, i.e.: when Romeo kills Tybalt; or in the case of Capulet becoming dominatingly violent with Juliet, it is played out to depict the social authority of man. ... In both these scenes the...

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