Romeo + Juliet (1996)In a big city named Verona, two konzerns called Montague and Capulet are opposed to each other since long time ago. The young people in the streets are also always fighting because Montague and Caplet. However, Romeo, the son of Montague is not interested in his family’s business because he is falling in love with a beautiful woman when first sees. One night, Romeo and his best friend named Mercutio attended to a costume party to see the woman, but he found a pretty girl who is wearing a pair of angel wings instead. Soon Romeo was attracted to the girl, but he did not realize that the girl’s name is Juliet at that time. Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, also felt same because she really thinks that Romeo is a very special young man and wants to see him again. Later in the day, the two vowed eternal love soulfully. Next day, Juliet headed for a church to tear herself away from her parents to get marry Romeo. Finally they got married and nobody knows that secret wedding but father Laurence and choir. Following day, cousin of Juliet named Tybalt slapped Romeo’s face and defame him viciously. Romeo was bearing Tybalt’s behavior because of Juliet, but Mercutio could not take it anymore. Then Tybalt and Mercutio had fight and Tybalt’s knife cut deep into Mercutio’s flesh. After Mercutio’s death, Romeo went to street and killed Tybalt by a gun as revenge. Because of the bunch of affairs, Romeo had to be displaced from the town. Needless to say, Juliet feels very distress at the displacing. A few days later, father Laurence came up with an idea to make Romeo and Juliet live happily. Here is the idea. First of all, Juliet poisons herself to make his family believe that she is dead, but the poison is not a real one. Second of all, let Romeo knows that Juliet is not really dead and make their elopement after Juliet’s funeral. Father Laurence believed the idea will be going well and Juliet hoped so too. However, Romeo found that Juliet is dead accidentally before father Laurence tell him the truth. The next day, Romeo backed to the town and lay down beside Juliet’s body. He also poisoned himself without knowing that she is still alive. As soon as Romeo drunk all of poison, Juliet woke up and found his husband’s dead body beside her. Soon Juliet killed herself in despair and hopelessness. Following day, city of Verona welcomed a cold morning as usual.
This movie was made in 1996. Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Romeo Montague, was very popular among young girls because of his good looks. However, Claire Danes, who played Juliet Capulet, was not very famous at that time. After she got her fame by appearing in this movie, she became a well-known idol actress. I liked her more in a movie called “U-Turn” which was made in 1997.
By watching this movie, I found that classic English sounds very difficult for me. Sometimes I could not get word from lines. I need study, yes.
