Movie Review 3

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare’s Romeo ＋ Juliet is romance and tragedy movie. It was directed by Baz Luhrman in 1996. Leonard DiCaprio played Romeo and Claire Danes played Juliet. This Romeo and Juliet is a modernization of the original one. The original Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. This movie won some awards. For example, at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, Leonardo DiCaprio won the Silver Best Award for Best Actor and director Baz Luhrman won the Alfred Bauer Award. Thank for this movie, many actors were nominated for movie awards. I tell about this story.
Romeo’s family Montagues and Juliet’s family Capulets were mutual enemies.
One day, Juliet’s father gave a party at his house. The Montagues were not invited, but Romeo stole into the party. There they met and fell in love each other. However, their families hated each other, so they shouldn’t make love. After that party, they decided to marry.
The very next day, they could marry. They became real couple, but the problem happened. Romeo’s friend was killed by Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, so Romeo killed Tybalt. That is why Romeo had to leave Juliet. Before his leaving, Romeo spent all night with Juliet. They slept together and he went far away. Juliet father did not know his daughter’s marriage, so he had Juliet marry to Paris who was a rich man. She did not want to marry him, so she went to Friar Laurence who was Romeo’s friend and helped their marriage.
He told her that she should drink a special poison before her marriage. Because of that poison, she became in suspended animation. Many people thought she died and held her funeral. Romeo heard about her death before he knew their plan. He bought a poison, which could kill him and went to see Juliet. He kissed her a lot. When she woke up, he drank that poison. He died in front of her slowly. There was a gun near her. She also killed herself with gun. The families were sad and decided not to fight again.
I have seen this movie for a few times, so I know about the story a little. I think it is nice story, but it is too fantastic. Romeo and Juliet are too early to fall in love. I sometimes think that they can make love easily, but separate easily, too. Considering the stage of this movie is modern, their words are strange. Sometimes I can’t understand their words. Those words fit drama, but doesn’t movie. Speaking of DiCaprio, I am not a big fan of him, but I have seen his several movies. I think that he looks cool in this movie and Taitanic. Anyway, I only know this modern version Romeo and Juliet, so I want to have a chance to see the original version Romeo and Juliet.