No matter how the play is interpreted, however, the themes of the play remain intact. ... Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate tale of love that is too great to bear. ... Just about every type of genre has a film version of Romeo and Juliet. Some film versions, such as Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation entitled Romeo and Juliet, are just a basic interpretation of the Shakespeare original play. ... The lift signifies their isolation from the whole party, as before Romeo was chasing Juliet all over the ballroom trying to get his message across, but Juliet was still walking away. ...

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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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