Baz Luhrmann helped adapt the classic story of Romeo and Juliet in his 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona beach. In this adaptation, the Montagues and Capulets are two rival gangs. Juliet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents, Fulgencio Capulet, and Gloria Capulet. Her father has arranged the marriage of Juliet and Paris, as a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the ball, and meets Juliet. They immediately fell in love. The 1968 version of the film, directed by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, is set in the Italian city of Verona, where the Montague and Capulet families are perpetually feuding. Romeo attends a ball thrown by the Capulets, where he meets and immediately falls in love with Juliet, a Capulet. After a brief courtship, the two fall in love, creating even greater tension between their families. Franco Zeffirelli’s film is considered one of the best screen versions of Shakespeare’s classic love story. Tragedy strikes in the 1996 version, when Juliet takes a ‘’potion’’ that makes her seem dead for 24 hours, and she is taken to the Capulet vault, where Romeo finds her, after being absent when the letter assuring him she wasn’t dead arrived. He then drinks the poison he bought, as Juliet …show more content…
He wants to make peace with Tybalt, as they are now related through Romeos marriage to Juliet, but Tybalt won’t budge. This makes the audience empathise with Romeo, feeling frustrated for him in his predicament. The tragedy in this scene begins when Romeo is put in such a unfair and painful situation, and continues as Mercutio is stabbed, acting like it was nothing, before plaguing both houses and dying. It furthers when Romeo chases down Tybalt, and duels with him, ending with the death of Tybalt, and the banishing of Romeo from