![]() Even the music contributes to the Western feel, with the “eerie whistlings Ennio Morricone’s trademark western scores” (Loehlin 126). There is a close-up of Tybalt’s cowboy boot stamping out a lit match in the style of Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and Once Upon a Time in the West. Mercutio urges Romeo to draw his sword The Reality of Fight ScenesĪfter the prologue, Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet starts off with a brawl between the Montague and Capulet boys at a gas station, an amalgamation of the spaghetti Western and the Hong Kong action movie. While the Montague and Capulet “boys” seem like ordinary obnoxious punks (with the pink hair and the convertibles blaring punk music), they also come off as menacing and dangerous. Luhrmann even cheekily inserts “Shakespearean language and ideas into his squalid late capitalist world: the gangs wield flashy handguns with brand names like ‘Rapier’ and ‘Sword 9 mm’” (Loehlin 125). Boys and girls in Romeo + Juliet carry handguns the way real-life kids carry cell phones and iPods. The setting is also “explicitly millennial,” as the pop-culture world of drugs and gang violence is not make-believe (Loehlin 121). The audience can suspend their disbelief when they see teenagers in Hawaiian shirts toting guns and spouting Shakespeare because Verona Beach is so colorful and fantastic. Part of the reason that the postmodern setting of Romeo + Juliet works is that it is different from the real world but frighteningly believable at the same time. Luhrmann explained how he thinks Shakespeare might have made a movie if he were around today.The Montague boys These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends Leonardo DiCaprio, Baz Luhrmann and Claire Danes in between scenes during filming. Shakespeare had to play to both high and low audiences,” Luhrmann noted. “I think probably my inspiration was that I as a kid found Shakespeare impossible to grapple with. Luhrmann’s fascination with the 16th century English playwright led to his inspiration for writing, directing and producing one of Shakespeare’s most recognizable plays. Like, he just made words up,” said Luhrmann. ![]() “Shakespeare, you know, he invented one quarter of the English language. While talking to TODAY, Luhrmann shared how he has always been fascinated by William Shakespeare. It sounds funny, but we were terrified.” Jamie Kennedy, Zak Orth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dash Mihok and Harold Perrineau in "Romeo + Juliet" 20th Century Fox / Courtesy Everett Collection And guys are getting out of the car and he's on top of the car with a gun going like this. ![]() Dash Mihok had to run out and run up the road like shooting, and he ran up the wrong road and the traffic's standing like that, he ran up the wrong road. “We’d blocked off traffic, and it was the fumes and you can imagine middle of Mexico City, guns and all of that. ![]()
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