Did the movie fail to meet Shakespeare's intentions?

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2013)

Romeo and Juliet the modern version was quite interesting. Shakespeare wouldn't like Baz Luhrmann version because the setting doesn't fit with his Elizabethan style of writing. He would like it better if the dialogue was more modern to fit the setting. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare likes to use a more secretive way of showing love of passion instead of just being intimate unlike Luhrmann's version. In the being of the movie of Luhrmann's version I didn't like it because it was too odd for me and I wish that they would just use modern language to complement each other. Later on in the movie I sort of put that thought to the side because the actions Luhrmann was taking in the movie were very unusual and interesting. Some of the actions in the movie seemed to grab my attention more than the play would. I liked seeing the actors' emotions into each scene and it was very intriguing.