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1. • • Lurhmann and his longtime production and costume designer Catherine Martin (also his wife) re-envisioned the play’s Verona setting in Mexico City and Veracruz, incorporating real-life locations—like Mexico City’s extravagantly decorated Immaculate Heart of Mary Church—into the story.
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   Did Baz Luhrmann adapt Romeo & Juliet?

   • Twenty-five years later, Baz Luhrmann's adaption of the classic play still resonates. I was in my ninth grade English class when I watched Romeo + Juliet for the first time. It was the early 2000s: the era of flip phones, AIM, and Myspace.

   How Romeo + Juliet Shook Up Shakespeare for a New Generation

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   What is the difference between lurhmann and Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet?

   • Many critics compared the film to Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. While Zeffirelli’s film is visually sumptuous, it still plays it safe with the material, with few changes in tone or historical period. Lurhmann, in contrast, plays fast and loose with every element of his production.

   Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet at 25: is this the best Shakespeare

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   What makes Romeo & Juliet stand the test of time?

   • It is exquisite to behold. What makes Romeo + Juliet stand the test of time is that all of its bold artistic choices are in service of a singular creative vision. Luhrmann does not treat the Shakespeare masterwork as a sacred, inert text.

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   Was Romeo & Juliet a bad idea?

   • It is 25 years since Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann released his gloriously spectacular version of Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed lovers. While some praised the film as “clever and well-executed” and “genuinely inventive”, others labelled it “a very bad idea” and “a monumental disaster”.

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   Oct 28, 2021 · Lurhmann and his longtime production and costume designer Catherine Martin (also his wife) re-envisioned the play’s Verona setting in Mexico City and Veracruz, incorporating real-life...

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   Nov 1, 2021 · Set in a fictional, modern-day Verona Beach (a real-life mash-up of Miami, Mexico City, and Boca del Rio, Veracruz), the movie opens with a news anchor reading the play’s famous prologue and...

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   Feb 10, 2021 · It is 25 years since Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann released his gloriously spectacular version of Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed...

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   Jan 1, 2022 · Lurhmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” not only makes it more accessible through the modern setting and iconography, but through casting choices –– especially reimagining Mercutio’s character as ...

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   Nov 23, 2020 · 2020 has been a strange year for cinema, but its unpredictability has made room for reassessment. The lack of new Shakespeare adaptations hitting U.S. theaters provides us with an opportunity: to revisit Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet,” released 24 years ago this month.

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   Nov 4, 2021 · Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, which turns 25 this month, was a cultural reset before the term was popularised, indelibly printing its stamp on our collective imaginations.

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    Nov 2, 2021 · Juliet’s soliloquy as she waits for Romeo becomes the cinematic voice-over, and Romeo’s romantic choice to die “with a kiss” turns instead into a moment of regret as Juliet awakens and he realizes his mistake. It is easy to see how Luhrmann is indebted to Shakespeare by how much he departs from him.