Leonardo DiCaprio | Romeo and Juliet Movie Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Romeo and Juliet Movie Wiki Share Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (/dɨˈkæpri.oʊ/; born November 11, 1974)[1] is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times as an actor, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s. He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 (1991) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life (1993).

DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin's Room (1996), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic (1997). Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has been nominated for awards for his work in such films as Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008). His latest films Shutter Island (2010) and Inception (2010) rank among the biggest commercial successes of his career.[2] DiCaprio owns a production company named Appian Way Productions, whose productions include the films Gardener of Eden (2007) and Orphan (2009). A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism.

Contents Biography Early life and family DiCaprio, an only child, was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Irmelin (née Indenbirken), is a former legal secretary; born in Germany; she came to the US as a child with her parents. His father, George DiCaprio, is an underground comic artist and producer/distributor of comic books.[4] DiCaprio's mother moved from Oer-Erkenschwick in the Ruhr, Germany, to the U.S. during the 1950s with her parents, Russian immigrants to Germany. A fourth-generation American, DiCaprio's father is of half Italian (from the Naples area) and half German descent (from Bavaria).[1][5][6] DiCaprio's maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken (1915–2008),[7] was born Yelena Smirnova in Russia.[8].

In a 2010 conversation with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, DiCaprio said that two of his grandparents were Russian.[9] DiCaprio's parents met while attending college and subsequently moved to Los Angeles.[1] He was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.[10] DiCaprio was raised Catholic.[11][12] His parents divorced when he was a year old and he lived mostly with his mother. The two lived in several Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Echo Park, and at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district (which was later converted into a local public library), while his mother worked several jobs to support them.[1] She remarried. He attended Seeds Elementary School and graduated from John Marshall High School a few blocks away, after attending the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies for four years. Career Early career DiCaprio's career began with his appearance in several commercials and educational films.

After being booted off the set of children's television series Romper Room for being disruptive at the age of five,[13] DiCaprio followed his older stepbrother Adam Farrar into television commercials, landing an ad for Matchbox cars at 14.[13] In 1990, he got his break on television when he was cast in the short-lived series based on the movie Parenthood. After Parenthood, DiCaprio had bit parts on several shows, including The New Lassie and Roseanne, as well as a brief stint on the soap opera Santa Barbara, playing the young Mason Capwell. His involvement in Parenthood and the daily soap earned him a nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor each.

1991–95 His debut film role was in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3, in which he played the stepson of an evil landlord, a role that DiCaprio described as "your average, no-depth, standard kid with blond hair."[14] Released in 1991, the movie went direct-to-video.[14] Soon after, he became a recurring cast member on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains, playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family. DiCaprio made his big screen breakthrough in 1992, when he was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in This Boy's Life, co-starring Ellen Barkin and De Niro himself.[13] Later in 1993, DiCaprio co-starred as the mentally handicapped brother to Johnny Depp in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, a comic-tragic odyssey of a dysfunctional Iowa family.

Director Lasse Hallström admitted he was initially looking for a less good-looking actor but finally settled on DiCaprio as he had emerged as "the most observant [actor]" among all auditioners.[14] Budgeted at US$11.0 million,[15] the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a domestic box office total of US$9.1 million and various accolades for DiCaprio, who was awarded the National Board of Review Award and nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his portrayal. New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing "the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch. The performance has a sharp, desperate intensity from beginning to end."[16] DiCaprio's first effort of 1995 was Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, a western film in which he appeared alongside Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe, playing the role of Hackman's alleged son named Kid.

Sony Pictures was dubious over DiCaprio's casting, and as a result, Stone decided to pay for the actor's salary herself.[17] The film was released to a dismal box office performance, barely grossing US$18.5 million in the United States, and received mixed reviews from critics.[18] Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader observed that "Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though The Quick and the Dead is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn't come across as very convincing."[19] Next DiCaprio starred in Total Eclipse, a fictionalized account of the homosexual relationship between Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, played by David Thewlis. He replaced River Phoenix, who had died during pre-production on the project.[20] A minor arthouse success, the film grossed US$0.34 million throughout its domestic theatrical run.[21] DiCaprio appeared alongside friends Kevin Connolly and Tobey Maguire in the mostly improvised short film called Don's Plum, as a favor to aspiring director R.D.

Robb.[13] When Robb decided to expand the black-and-white film to feature length, however, DiCaprio and Maguire had its release blocked by court order, arguing that they never intended to make it a theatrical release, as it would have commercial value thanks to their stardom.[13] The film eventually premiered at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was well received by critics, with Time Out New York writer Mike D'Angelo calling it "the best film [I saw] in Berlin." DiCaprio's last film of the year 1995 was The Basketball Diaries, a biopic about Jim Carroll. 1996–2001 In 1996, DiCaprio appeared opposite Claire Danes in Baz Luhrmann's film Romeo + Juliet, an abridged modernization of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name which retained the original Shakespearean dialogue.

The project was one of the first films to cash in on DiCaprio's future star-status, with a worldwide box office take of $147 million.[22] Later that year, he starred in Jerry Zaks' family drama Marvin's Room, reuniting with Robert De Niro. Based on Scott McPherson's screenplay adaptation of his own 1991 stage play of the same name, the film revolves around two sisters, played by Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, who are reunited through tragedy after 17 years of estrangement.[23] DiCaprio portrayed the character of Hank, Streep's troubled son, who has been committed to a mental asylum for setting fire to his mother's house.[24] On his Chlotrudis Award-winning performance, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly commented: "The deeply gifted DiCaprio [..] keeps right up with these older pros [Keaton and Streep].

The three are so full-bodied and so powerfully affecting that you're carried along on the pleasure of being in the presence of their extraordinary talent."[24] In 1997, DiCaprio starred in James Cameron's Titanic (1997), alongside Kate Winslet. Cast as twenty-year-old Jack Dawson, a penniless Wisconsin man who wins two tickets for the third-class on the ill-fated RMS Titanic, DiCaprio initially refused to portray the character but was eventually encouraged to pursue the role by Cameron who strongly believed in his acting ability.[25] Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date (it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar), grossing more than US$1.843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide,[26] and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as "Leo-Mania."[27] He was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, including a second Golden Globe nomination.

Upon the success of Titanic, DiCaprio stated in 2000: "I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world [...] I'll never reach that state of popularity again, and I don't expect to. It's not something I'm going to try to achieve either."[28] The following year, DiCaprio made a self-mocking cameo appearance in Woody Allen's caustic satire of the fame industry, Celebrity (1998). That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film.

Despite receiving a rather mixed to negative response,[29] the film became a box office success, grossing US$180 million internationally.[30] Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that "the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel,"[31] he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year. DiCaprio's next project was the drama film The Beach (2000), an adaption of Alex Garland's same-titled 1996 novel. Starring alongside Tilda Swinton and Virginie Ledoyen, he played an American backpacking tourist looking for the perfect way of life in a secret island commune in the Gulf of Thailand.

Budgeted at $US50 million, the film became a financial success, grossing $US144 million worldwide,[32] but as with DiCaprio's previous project, the film was largely panned by critics.[33] Todd McCarthy of Variety noted that "Richard [DiCaprio's role] is too much the American Everyman and not enough of a well-defined individual to entirely capture one's interest and imagination, and DiCaprio, while perfectly watchable, does not endow him with the quirks or distinguishing marks to make this man from nowhere a dimensional character."[34] The next year, he was nominated for another Razzie Award for his work on the film. 2002–07 DiCaprio's first film of 2002 was the crime-comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, used his charm, confidence, and several different personas, to make millions in the 1960s writing bad checks.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken, the film was shot in 147 different locations in only 52 days, making it "the most adventurous, super-charged movie-making" DiCaprio had experienced yet.[35] Catch Me If You Can received favourable reviews and proved to be an international success, becoming Dicaprio's highest-grossing film since Titanic with a total of US$351.1 million worldwide.[36] Roger Ebert praised his performance, and noted that while "DiCaprio, who in recent films [...] has played dark and troubled characters, is breezy and charming here, playing a boy who discovers what he is good at, and does it."[37] The following year, DiCaprio received his third Golden Globe nomination for his work on the film. Also in 2002, DiCaprio appeared in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, a historical film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City.

Director Scorsese initially struggled selling his idea of realizing the film until DiCaprio became interested in playing protagonist Amsterdam Vallon, a young leader of the Irish faction, and thus, Miramax Films got involved with financing the project.[38] Nonetheless production on the film was plagued by blown-out budgets and producer-director squabbles, resulting in a marathon eight-month shoot and, at US$103 million, the most expensive film Scorsese had ever made.[38] Upon its release, Gangs of New York became a financial and critical success however.[39] DiCaprio's acting was well-received but remained overshadowed by Daniel Day-Lewis' performance among most critics.[38][40] Forging a collaboration with Scorsese, the two paired again for a biopic of the eccentric and obsessive American film director and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004).

Centering on Hughes' life from the late 1920s to 1947, DiCaprio initially developed the project with Michael Mann, who decided against directing it after back-to-back film biographies in Ali and The Insider.[40] The actor eventually pitched John Logan's script to Scorsese, who quickly signed on to direct. Altogether, DiCaprio reportedly spent more than a year and a half in preparation for the film which was not necessarily shot in continuity because of actors and locations schedules.[40] The Aviator became a critical and financial success.[41] DiCaprio received rave reviews for his performance and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, also receiving another Academy Award nomination. In 2006, DiCaprio starred in both Blood Diamond and The Departed. In Edward Zwick's war film Blood Diamond, he co-starred alongside Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou as a diamond smuggler from Rhodesia who is involved in the Sierra Leone Civil War.

The film itself received generally favorable reviews,[42] and DiCaprio was praised for the authenticity of his South African Afrikaner accent, known as a difficult accent to imitate.[43] In Scorsese's The Departed he played the role of Billy Costigan, a state trooper working undercover in an Irish Mob in Boston. Highly anticipated, the film was released to overwhelmingly positive reviews and became one of the highest-rated wide release films of 2006.[44] Budgeted at US$90 million, it also emerged as DiCaprio and Scorsese's highest-grossing collaboration to date, easily beating The Aviator´s previous record of US$213.7 million.[45] DiCaprio's performance in The Departed was applauded by critics and earned him a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor. The same year, both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild nominated DiCaprio twice in the Best Actor category for both of his 2006 features, and in addition, DiCaprio earned his third Academy Award nomination for Blood Diamond.

2008–present In 2008, DiCaprio starred in Body of Lies, a spy film based on the novel of the same name by David Ignatius, set in context of the Middle East and the War on Terror, unfolding the story of three men battling a terrorist organization, and each other.[46] Directed by Ridley Scott and co-starring Russell Crowe and Vince Colosimo, DiCaprio dyed his hair brown and wore brown contacts for the role, which he chose to pursue because he considered it a throwback to political films in the 1970s such as The Parallax View (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975).[46] The film received mixed reviews from critics,[47] and at a budget of US$67.5 million, became a moderate box office success, grossing US$115 million worldwide.[48] The same year, DiCaprio reunited with Kate Winslet to film the drama Revolutionary Road (2008), directed by Winslet's then-husband Sam Mendes.

As both actors had been reluctant to make romantic films similar to Titanic, it was Winslet who suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe, knowing that plot had little in common with the 1997 blockbuster.[49] Once DiCaprio agreed to do the film, it went almost immediately into production.[50] He noted that he saw his character as "unheroic" and "slightly cowardly" and that he was "willing to be just a product of his environment."[51] Portraying a couple in a failing marriage in the 1950s, DiCaprio and Winslet watched period videos promoting life in the suburbs to prepare themselves for Revolutionary Road, which earned them favorable reviews.[52] For his portrayal DiCaprio garnered his seventh nomination from the Golden Globes. DiCaprio continued his run with Scorsese in the 2010 psychological thriller film Shutter Island (2010), based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.

Co-starring Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams in supporting roles, the actor played U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility located on an island and comes to question his own sanity. With US$41 million, the film opened at number-one at the box office, giving both DiCaprio and Scorsese their best box office opening yet.[53] Also in 2010, DiCaprio starred in director Christopher Nolan's science-fiction film Inception.

Inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming and dream incubation,[54] DiCaprio portrays the character of Dom Cobb, an "extractor" who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible.[55] Cobb is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target's mind.[56] DiCaprio, the first actor to be cast in the film,[57] was "intrigued by this concept — this dream-heist notion and how this character's gonna unlock his dreamworld and ultimately affect his real life."[58] Released to critical acclaim, the film grossed over US$21 million on its opening day, with an opening weekend gross of US$62.7 million.[59] In 2011, DiCaprio starred in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, a biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial first director of the FBI.

He was also cast in the title role in Oliver Stone's film Travis McGee, in which he is expected to play a salvage consultant who helps his clients to recover lost property, and is attached to star as a father who kidnaps and tortures the man who kidnapped his daughter in the thriller Prisoners.[60] In addition, DiCaprio is said to be involved in the pre-production of Ridley Scott's projects The Wolf of Wall Street and Brave New World, Marc Forster's The Chancellor Manuscript and the biopic Sinatra, a film about Frank Sinatra to be directed by Martin Scorsese.[60] In July 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio had pulled out of a Viking movie to be directed by Mel Gibson amid controversy over Gibson's rage-fueled rant tapes and domestic violence probe.[61] On November 1, 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio's production company had acquired the rights to the Erik Larson novel, The Devil in the White City.[62] The novel tells the true story of Dr. H. H.

Holmes, a serial killer responsible for the death of hundreds of women during the Chicago World's Fair.[63] It has also been announced that DiCaprio will star in the film, playing the role of serial killer H. H. Holmes.[64] He was also cast in the role of Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's upcoming adaptation of the novel The Great Gatsby.[65] On November 19, 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio will produce and star in the upcoming 2013 movie based on the book Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham.[66] DiCaprio will star as villainous Calvin Candie in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained.[67] Principal photography started in California, Wyoming, and Louisiana in the first few months of 2012.[68][69][70] He will reunite with Scorsese for the fifth time in The Wolf of Wall Street, a true story based on the life of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, who was arrested in the late 1990s for security fraud and money laundering.[71][72] Personal life DiCaprio is a close friend of actor Tobey Maguire, whom he met while auditioning for the Parenthood series in 1990, and is a longtime friend of both fellow actors Kevin Connolly and Lukas Haas,[73] and Titanic and Revolutionary Road co-star Kate Winslet.

He was a childhood friend of Christopher Pettiet.[74 His romantic relationships have been widely covered in the media.[75] DiCaprio dated model Kristen Zang on-and-off for several years, and British model and socialite Emma Miller.[76] In 2001, he met Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen with whom he had an on-and-off relationship until their separation in 2005.

DiCaprio began a relationship with model Bar Refaeli in November 2005 after meeting her at a Las Vegas party thrown for members of U2.[77] In the course of their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon.[78] The relationship was on hold for a period of six months starting in June 2009; in early 2010, the romance was rekindled.[79][80] In May 2011, it was reported that the couple had ended their romantic relationship, although still remaining friends.[81] In August 2011, it was reported that he was in a relationship with actress Blake Lively since mid-May.[82][83] They ended their relationship in October 2011.[84] DiCaprio began dating Erin Heatherton in December 2011.[85] DiCaprio owns a home in Los Angeles and an apartment in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.

In 2009, he bought an island in Belize on which he is planning to create an eco-friendly resort. He also owns an apartment in Riverhouse, an eco-friendly building overlooking the Hudson River in Manhattan.[86] In 2005 DiCaprio's face was seriously injured when Aretha Wilson, a model, hit him over the head with a broken bottle at a Hollywood party.

After pleading guilty in 2010, Wilson was sentenced to prison for two years.[87] Environmental activism and philanthropy A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism.[3] In the past,[88] he has opted to fly on commercial flights instead of chartering private jets, he owns an electric Tesla Roadster,[89] Fisker Karma plug in hybrid,[90][91] and a Toyota Prius.[92] He has also installed solar panels on his house.[3] In an interview with Ukula about his film the 11th Hour, DiCaprio cited global warming as "the number-one environmental challenge."[93] At the 2007 Oscar ceremony, DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore appeared to announce that the Academy Awards had incorporated environmentally intelligent practices throughout the planning and production processes, thus affirming their commitment to the environment, and on July 7, 2007, DiCaprio presented at the American leg of Live Earth. In 2010, his environmental work earned DiCaprio a nomination for the VH1 Do Something Award.

The awards show, produced by VH1, is dedicated to honoring people who do good and is powered by Do Something, an organization that aims to empower and inspire young people.[94] In 1998, DiCaprio and his mother donated $35,000 for a "Leonardo DiCaprio Computer Center" at the Los Feliz branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, the site of his childhood home. It was rebuilt after the 1994 Northridge earthquake and opened in early 1999.[95] During the filming of Blood Diamond, DiCaprio worked with 24 orphaned children from the SOS Children's Village in Maputo, Mozambique, and was said to be extremely touched by his interactions with the children.[96] In 2010, he donated $1,000,000 to relief efforts in Haiti after the earthquake.[97] During the 2004 Presidential election, DiCaprio campaigned and donated to John Kerry's presidential bid. FEC showed DiCaprio gave $2300 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign in the 2008 U.S.

Presidential election, the maximum contribution an individual can give in an election cycle.[98] In November 2010, DiCaprio donated $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit. DiCaprio arrived late after two near-miss flights, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a "muzhik" or "real man".[99][100] In 2011, DiCaprio joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund's campaign to free Tony, a tiger who has spent the last decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.[101] Romeo + Juliet : Leonardo DiCaprio LEONARDO DICAPRIO Photo: © 1996 Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved. Romeo + Juliet July 13, 1996 FROM AGE TO AGE ONE CLASSIC STORY IS AS TIMELESS AS LOVE ITSELF The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach.

The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes), meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their families will not allow them to be together. Director Baz Luhrman’s film is a modern version of Shakespeare’s play. While the Shakespearean dialogue is retained, the Montagues and Capulets are represented as warring business empires and swords are replaced with guns. Read more about the film. Join Us What issue do you care about the most? OCEANS The Revenant 16 . 03 . 2016 On December 25, Leonardo DiCaprio’s new film ‘The Revenant’ opened in a the United States. with a global cinematic release on January 8, 2016. The Wolf of Wall Street 25 . 12 . 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street premiered in New York City on December 17, 2013, and was released theatrically on December 25, 2013. The Great Gatsby 01 . 05 .

2013 From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. The filmmaker will create his own distinctive visual interpretation of the classic story, bringing the period to life in a way that has never been seen before, in a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Django Unchained 25 . 12 . 2012 Set in the antebellum, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django with Leonardo DiCaprio as the villainous Calvin Candie. J. Edgar 12 . 07 . 2011 As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. Shutter Island 12 . 07 . 2010 It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (played by Leonardo) is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.

He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Hubble 3D 12 . 07 . 2010 An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Inception 12 . 07 . 2010 In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief – Dom Cobb – is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception Revolutionary Road 12 . 07 . 2009 Adapted from the landmark novel by Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the yes of Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (Kate Winslet) Wheeler. Yates story of 1950's America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever since: can two people break away from the ordinary without breaking apart?

Body of Lies William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet - Rolling Stone William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet All Stories Leonardo Dicaprio is 21, Claire Danes is 17, and, yes, class, they do get naked in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. You almost laugh watching them put a hip, hotblooded spin on the Bard's star-crossed lovers. No dis intended. The laughter comes from delight and awe at how well DiCaprio and Danes pull off the trick. These babes from the TV woods — he started in Growing Pains; she emerged in My So--Called Life — fill their classic roles with vital passion, speak the Elizabethan verse with unforced grace, find the spirited comedy of the play without losing its tragic fervor and keep their balance when the audacious Australian director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) hurls them into a whirlwind of hardball action, rowdy humor and rapturous romance. More News All Stories It's a good thing that Shakespeare gets his name in the title, or you might mistake the opening scenes for Quentin Tarantino's Romeo and Juliet.

No dialogue, just gunshots, as two gang families — the Montagues and the Capulets (each has its name in lights on the roof of a high-rise) — go to war. Welcome to mythical Verona Beach, where the gangs fire on each other, and soldiers in choppers fire on them. Shot in Mexico in a style that might be called retrofuturistic, since it encompasses castles and armor, as well as bulletproof vests and boomboxes, the film reworks Shakespeare in a frenzy of jump cuts that makes most rock videos look like MTV on Midol. Juliet's papa Capulet is robustly played by Paul Sorvino as a John Gotti-like godfather. Her mother, Gloria (Diane Venora), is a Southern belle out to marry off her daughter to Paris (Paul Rudd, from Clueless), a wealthy square who comes dressed as an astronaut to a costume ball. Juliet's bawdy nurse is played by the British actress Miriam Margolyes with a broad Hispanic accent (she calls her mistress Wholiette).

The excellent John Leguizamo is Juliet's cousin Tybalt, a volatile Latino who's in a gang that likes to dude up and then accessorize with pearl-handle guns and silver boot heels. Romeo's clan is led by Dad (Brian Dennehy) and Mom (Christina Pickles) Montague. Their gang favors shorts and Hawaiian shirts, though Romeo's best bud, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau, from Smoke), is a black cross-dresser whose murder by Tybalt sparks Romeo to take lethal vengeance. If your head isn't spinning yet, it will. The rabid flamboyance of Luhrmann's vision, remarkably accented by Kym Barrett's costumes and Catherine Martin's production design, is meant to make Romeo and Juliet accessible to the elusive Gen X audience without leaving the play bowdlerized and broken. Luhrmann, known as a wizard in his native Oz, where he stages plays and operas, relishes knocking cobwebs off classics. Of course, messing with Romeo and Juliet is nothing new.

It's been made over as a ballet, as a Broadway musical and Oscarwinning movie (West Side Story), and as a 1987 Abel Ferrara gang film (China Girl). But all those productions threw out Shakespeare's language. Luhrmann and his Aussie co-writer, Craig Pearce, stick with the Bard's funny way of talking. Iambic pentameter in this pulp context may throw you at first, but hang on. rector Franco Zeffirelli stuck to the language and the period in his 1968 film Romeo and Juliet but livened things up by casting young leads — Olivia Hussey, 15, and Leonard Whiting, 17 — and showcasing enough codpieces and cleavage to have censors crying kiddie porn. The film was a smash, though Zeffirelli cut the text severely to make up for the inadequacies of his otherwise-appealing actors. Luhrmann cuts the text as well, though not as damagingly. His point is not to distract you from the words, as Zeffirelli did, but to lead you to them.

And in DiCaprio and Danes, who give magnetic performances, he has found two actors with the youth to play the roles and the talent to do them justice. They speak the verse so naturally that the meaning registers. DiCaprio is dynamite in a role that builds on the rare talent he showed in This Boy's Life, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and The Basketball Diaries. As Romeo, he doesn't round his vowels (tonight becomes tanight) or enunciate in dulcet tones, but when he speaks, you believe him. Whether Romeo is lovesick ("Did my heart love till now?"), violent ("Tempt not a desperate man") or drugged ("A dateless bargain to engrossing death"), DiCaprio lets the Bard's words flow with an ardor that you can't buy in acting class. As his co-star Leguizamo has said in jest: "It came so easy to that little, blond, happy, golden-boy motherfucker." Danes, with poise beyond her years, as My So-Called Life made clear, is DiCaprio's equal.

Juliet can be played as a ninny, a role Danes has been saddled with in other films (Little Women, How to Make an American Quilt). She wisely chooses to emphasize Juliet's melting loveliness and bristling wit. When the lusty Romeo, on their first date, complains of being left unsatisfied with only a kiss, Juliet turns on him. "What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?" she asks. The fire in Danes' eyes is unmistakable: Juliet is interested, but for now, Romeo should keep his dick in his pants. For all the tumult that Luhrmann stirs up in the film, he shoots the scenes between the two lovers with elegant simplicity. When Romeo first sees Juliet at the costume ball, his "bright angel" is wearing wings. He is dressed in a knight's shining armor. These children of enemies steal looks at each other on opposite sides of a fish tank and later steal a kiss. Says Romeo, "Oh, trespass sweetly urged." The actors don't rush past the language to get to the sex, as Zeffirelli had Whiting and Hussey do. DiCaprio and Danes make the bandying of words a sly, erotic game.

Shakespeare has never been this sexy onscreen. Without the right actors, puppy love could never become the grand passion that tragedy requires after Romeo and Juliet are secretly married by Father Laurence (a splendid Pete Postlethwaite) in defiance of their families. DiCaprio delivers the line "I am fortune's fool" with wrenching power as violence seals his fate. Luhrmann goes hog wild for the climactic double suicide on a flower-strewn altar lit by 2,000 candles, with Romeo swallowing a lethal drug picked up from a seedy dealer (M. Emmet Walsh) and Juliet holding a semiautomatic to her head. Amid the clamor from outraged purists and Shakespeare spinning in his Stratford-on-Avon, England, grave, you should notice that Luhrmann and his two bright angels have shaken up a 400-year-old play without losing its touching, poetic innocence. Don’t Miss a Story Sign up for our newsletter to receive breaking news directly in your inbox. We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners.

For more information please read our Privacy Policy How we use your email address Trending Ranked on a scale from 1 to 10, the trending score reflects the number of users reading a story in real time. What is this? "Romeo + Juliet" - Leonardo DiCaprio - Pictures - CBS News Leonardo DiCaprio Next Leonardo DiCaprio The former child star who grew from a teen heartthrob in one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, to one of the most talented and bankable actors of his generation, has been nominated for five Academy Awards as an actor and producer, and won his third Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the 2015 drama, "The Revenant." By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from the 2015 film "The Revenant," directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It is based on Michael Punke's novel inspired by a true-life tale of a frontiersman's fight to survive in the early 19th century American wilderness.

DiCaprio told CBS News' Charlie Rose it was one of the toughest films he's ever made. "There for nine months in sub-zero temperatures in Calgary, real locations, far-off locations, we looked at this as a grand sort of artistic experiment," DiCaprio said. "We rehearsed meticulously all day long with (cinematographer) Chivo Lubezki and Alejandro to pull off some very crucial and hard-to-do shots.

And then we'd have an hour-and-a-half of natural light and it became like live theater at the end of the day, this frenetic pace and intensity that we needed to keep up with." The actor described it as a "chapter of my life" rather than a "film commitment." Credit: 20th Century Fox "This Boy's Life" As a child actor growing up Los Angeles, Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in the TV series "The New Lassie," "The Outsiders," "Rosanne" and the soap opera "Santa Barbara." He also played Garry Buckman in the 1990 series, "Parenthood." Credit: Warner Brothers "Critters 3" He made his film debut in the direct-to-video sci-fi flick "Critters 3" (1991), about hungry, toothsome creatures from outer space. Credit: New Line Cinema "This Boy's Life" Leonardo DiCaprio's first major film role was in "This Boy's Life" (1993), starring Ellen Barkin and Robert De Niro. "I'd never seen a set that serious before," DiCaprio told CBS "Sunday Morning"'s Lee Cowan.

"I'd come from, you know, television shows and commercials. But once De Niro walked onto set, everyone was silent. And I was like, 'What the hell's goin' on?' It was like a ghost came into the room! But I realized the concentration that he put into this. "Michael Caton-Jones, who was the director, laid some foundation for me: basically, 'Shut up, kid, when we're trying to be serious!'" DiCaprio laughed. "And, you know, 'Don't complain. Pain is temporary. Film is forever. Concentrate on the work. Prepare.' [That] really gave me the fundamentals of what it was to do a film like that." Credit: Warner Brothers "This Boy's Life" DiCaprio said, "It was really watching De Niro prepare, and the chances that he would take with each scene, that it wasn't just about reading the dialogue, that it was about creating something out of thin air and embodying that character, and committing to it.

That made a huge impression on me." Credit: Warner Brothers "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" DiCaprio said he prepared for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993), in which he plays the autistic brother of Johnny Depp (left) by spending time at a home in Austin, Texas, for children with mental disabilities. "I remember coming to Lasse Hallstrom [the director] with a checklist of, like, 300 different attributes that I noticed while I was there. And I said, 'I'm thinking of doing this one, this one, this one. And I can kind of show you.' And he looked at me and he said, 'Yeah. Go ahead. Do that,'" he laughed. Credit: Paramount Pictures "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" DiCaprio said he learned the difference between his contributions to the film and those of Johnny Depp, the central character: "It was a lot less pressure [for me]. He had to carry the story. He had to structure the story. And I was sort of allowed to do whatever the hell I wanted at any given moment, because that was the nature of the character - he was impulsive.

Oftentimes, probably, I should have allowed the scene to carry on the way it should have! But I just had a big plate of spaghetti and, you know, I did what my character was going to do with a big plate of spaghetti, you know?" DiCaprio received his first Oscar nomination, as Best Supporting Actor, for "Gilbert Grape": "It was a shock to me. I remember really being terrified of the possibility of ever winning something like that when I heard the fact that there were billions of people, or a billion people that watch this; that just terrified the hell out of me." Credit: Paramount Pictures "The Basketball Diaries" Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1995 film version of Jim Carroll's "The Basketball Diaries," about a young athlete falling into drug addiction. Credit: MGM "The Quick and the Dead" Leonardo DiCaprio as young gunslinger Fee "The Kid" Herod in Sam Raimi's 1995 western, "The Quick and the Dead. Credit: TriStar Pictures "The Quick and the Dead" Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe in "The Quick and the Dead" (1995).

Credit: TriStar Pictures "Total Eclipse" Following his very early success, DiCaprio turned down offers for some traditional Hollywood films. He told Cowan, "My father was a huge catalyst in pushing me towards more interesting films at an early age, things like 'Total Eclipse' (left, with David Thewlis), which not many people have seen, which is about the great poet Arthur Rimbaud. "He kind of put it into a modern-day perspective for me in saying, 'Look, this guy was kind of the James Dean of his time. He was a great poet, he was a radical, he was a rebel. He sort of revolutionized that art form.' And, so, therefore my taste kind of shifted." Credit: New Line Cinema "Marvin's Room" Leonardo DiCaprio played the troubled young son of Meryl Streep in the 1996 drama, "Marvin's Room," which co-starred Diane Keaton. Credit: Miramax "Romeo + Juliet" Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge") directed "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), a pop-infused contemporary take on Shakespeare's doomed lovers.

Leonardo DiCaprio starred as Romeo Montague opposite Claire Danes as Juliet Capulet. Credit: 20th Century Fox These Montagues are packing serious heat: Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" (1996). Credit: 20th Century Fox "Titanic" Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as the doomed lovers in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster, "Titanic." Winner of 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, it became the highest-grossing film of all time (later supplanted by Cameron's "Avatar"). Credit: 20th Century Fox "Titanic" Looking back on "Titanic," DiCaprio told Cowan that, "We did this monumental film and I got to work with Kate, who was great, and Jim. And it was insane. We were there for eight months of our life. It was just, like, a huge part of my younger youth. "But then, the movie comes out and it's incredibly successful. And people are saying, 'You know, this movie is huge.' And I'm like, 'Great. Cool.

Isn't that what it's supposed to be?' (laughs) They're like, 'No. No. You don't understand. I mean, it's making billions of dollars.' I'm like, 'So, that's good, right? Billions of dollars are good?' (laughs) I just didn't understand, I really didn't." Credit: 20th Century Fox Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kathy Bates in "Titanic." Credit: 20th Century Fox "Celebrity" Leonardo DiCaprio and Kenneth Branagh in Woody Allen's rueful comedy-drama of fame, debauchery and celebrity journalism, "Celebrity" (1998).

Credit: Miramax "The Man in the Iron Mask" Leonardo DiCaprio played the dual roles of King Louis XIV and Philippe, the king's identical twin brother, in the 1998 film adaptation - one of over a dozen - of the Alexander Dumas adventure, "The Man in the Iron Mask." Credit: United Artists "The Man in the Iron Mask" Leonardo DiCaprio and Judith Godreche in the 1998 film of Alexander Dumas' "The Man in the Iron Mask." Credit: United Artists "The Beach" Leonardo DiCaprio starred as a college student on a journey to a mythical island paradise in "The Beach" (2000). Directed by Danny Boyle ("Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire"), the film costarred Tilda Swinton and Virginie Ledoyen. Credit: 20th Century Fox "Catch Me If You Can" Leonardo DiCaprio starred in Steven Spileberg's sprightly caper "Catch Me if You Can" (2002), based on the true story of con artist Frank Abagnale, whose impersonations included a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and D.A.

Credit: Dreamworks "Catch Me If You Can" Director Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of "Catch Me If You Can." Credit: Dreamworks "Gangs of New York" Leonardo DiCaprio first worked with Martin Scorsese on "Gangs of New York" (2002), about the violence that immigrants found upon stepping off in the New World. "My whole generation of friends - ever since I became an actor - we admired the films from the '70s, the era when the director was God and they had artistic control. And at the top of that list was Marty's work with Bob [De Niro]. It's the greatest cinematic relationship ever. "And as soon as I got 'This Boy's Life' with De Niro, I obsessively watched all of their films together. That's a very impressionable age. And when you watch films like that, the threshold of what they accomplished - the bar is set so high (laughs) that you sort of gotta say, 'Okay.

I gotta dig deep - and I wanna do something close to this good in my lifetime.' And that thirst never goes away." Credit: Miramax "Gangs of New York" Daniel Day Lewis as "Bill the Butcher" Cutting and Leonardo DiCaprio as Amsterdam Vallon in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" (2002). Credit: Miramax "The Aviator" DiCaprio's second collaboration with Martin Scorsese was a passion project: "The Aviator" (2004), the epic story of Hollywood producer, aviation pioneer and business tycoon Howard Hughes. Credit: Warner Brothers "The Aviator" DiCaprio says a film like "The Aviator" would be even more difficult to get funding for today, if it doesn't have the elements of a typical Hollywood blockbuster wanna-be (one reason why "The Wolf of Wall Street" obtained funding from beyond the typical film studios). "I understand," DiCaprio told Lee Cowan. "I mean, they've been monumentally successful with those types of films, and it's an industry that is driven by profit and they have to be accountable to their shareholders.

But for me, it's kind of been about, where can I find financing outside of that? Or people that understand that audiences don't always wanna see epics or big movies coming from Hollywood that have those elements in 'em? I think that there's an audience out there that craves different types of storylines. And thank God there are people out there that have run into some wealth or have financial backing that also have taste in movies as well and say, 'Look. We're willing to take a gamble on this.'" Credit: Warner Brothers "The Aviator" "The Aviator" earned 11 Academy Award nominations (including Best Actor for DiCaprio), and won five Oscars, including Cate Blanchett as Best Supporting Actress.

Credit: Warner Brothers "Blood Diamond" Leonardo DiCaprio (with Djimon Hounsou) earned his third Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a diamond smuggler in the 2006 thriller, "Blood Diamond." Credit: Warner Brothers "The Departed" DiCaprio's third film with director Martin Scorsese was the 2006 Best Picture winner, "The Departed." A remake of the Hong Kong thriller "Infernal Affairs," "The Departed" told of the cat-and-mouse games between a Boston mob boss and the police, neither of whom know moles had been planted in each other's organizations. DiCaprio played an undercover operative who becomes a trusted ally of the Whitey Bulger-like Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). Credit: Warner Brothers "The 11th Hour" Inspired by Al Gore and "An Inconvenient Truth," DiCaprio (who as a boy said he wanted to become a marine biologist) narrated and produced the documentary "The 11th Hour" (2007), featuring scientists and statesmen discussing such environmental crises as mass extinctions, climate change, deforestation and the loss of habitats and biodiversity.

Since 1998, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has focused on philanthropy and fundraising to support conservation projects and media initiatives on such pressing environmental issues as protecting rain forests, animal habitats and ocean ecosystems; rescuing tigers from extinction: and supporting clean water efforts in distressed areas. Credit: Warner Independent Pictures "Body of Lies" Leonardo DiCaprio played a CIA agent on the trail of a terrorist in Iraq in Ridley Scott's 2008 thriller "Body of Lies." Playing his CIA overseer was Russell Crowe, DiCaprio's costar in "The Quick and the Dead." Credit: Warner Brothers "Revolutionary Road" Leonardo DiCaprio and his "Titanic" co-star Kate Winslet reteamed for Sam Mendes' 2008 drama, "Revolutionary Road," based on Richard Yates' novel of couple struggling to overcome dissatisfaction in their careers, their relationship, and their life in 1940s suburban Connecticut.

Credit: Paramount Vantage "Inception" In Christopher Nolan's "Inception" (2010), Leonardo DiCaprio played a corporate spy who enters his targets' unconscious state to steal secrets - and, in one dangerous assignment, to implant a false memory. Credit: Warner Brothers "Shutter Island" Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" (2010), the moody thriller based on Dennis Lehane's novel about the investigation into a missing patient at an isolated hospital for the criminally insane. Credit: Paramount Pictures Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley in "Shutter Island." Credit: Paramount Pictures "J. Edgar" In Clint Eastwood's biopic "J. Edgar" (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio played the storied G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, recounting his decades-long leadership of the FBI and his personal relationships, including his alleged homosexuality. Also starring was Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson. Credit: Warner Brothers Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI head J. Edgar Hoover in "J.

Edgar." Credit: Warner Brothers "Django Unchained" Blood on his hands: Leonardo DiCaprio played plantation owner Calvin Candie in Quentin Tarantino's violent tale of the Antebellum South, "Django Unchained" (2012). Credit: Weinstein Company Leonardo DiCaprio during location filming of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained." Credit: Weinstein Company "The Great Gatsby" Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan as Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Credit: Warner Brothers "The Great Gatsby" DiCaprio admits to a similarity between the characters of Jordan Belfort (of "Wolf of Wall Street") and Gatsby - both tales of hedonism, set in different eras. He said F. Scott Fitzgerald's tale "was supposed to be the 'Wolf of Wall Street' of its time ... and that's what's sort of in the undercurrent of it, is the fact that he went into the underworld to make his fortune, to belong to the aristocracy of the wealth of America.

I mean, they're both about characters that wanted to belong and wanted to have an identity. "Certainly Gatsby was one of the most interesting characters I've gotten to play, and works on so many different levels simultaneously." Credit: Warner Brothers "The Wolf of Wall Street" DiCaprio told CBS News' Lee Cowan that he was obsessed with bringing to the screen Jordan Belfort's memoir, "The Wolf of Wall Street," about a fraudulent stock trader who elicited millions from his victims and lived a flagrantly outlandish, drug-fueled lifestyle (until the feds finally caught up with him). DiCaprio said that the economic recession and blatant corruption on Wall Street, in addition to "this incessant need for more" as part of the culture, drove his obsession to make the film. When Hollywood studios balked, outside financing had to be obtained. The film, directed by Martin Scorsese, was nominated for five Academy Awards , including Best Picture, Best Actor (DiCaprio), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Best Director (Scorsese), and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Credit: Paramount Pictures "The Wolf of Wall Street" For "The Wolf of Wall Street," DiCaprio said director Martin Scorsese pulled no punches in depicting the outrageous and shameless lives of the characters: "We wanted to put that darker nature of humanity up on screen, warts and all. We were doing a press conference recently and people were talking about the sort of crudeness of the characters in this movie. And Marty said something very pertinent: 'Why should I be polite about my portrayal of these people? They weren't polite, you know. What they were doing wasn't polite. So, I'm not gonna make a movie that's polite about them.'" Credit: Paramount Pictures "The Wolf of Wall Street" "He's actually a likable guy," DiCaprio said of Jordan Belfort, with whom he spent months discussing his book and events beyond the book. "I don't agree with anything that he did. I think a lot of his actions were deplorable. But when somebody's such an open book and is so candid about what they did, and unflinching in their accounts of incredibly embarrassing activities, you have to appreciate that as an actor. Because there's not many people that really do that.

"And certainly, if we wanted to put this era up on screen, we needed somebody with that attitude. He came in there with the attitude of wanting to have the American dream, and this movie is about the corruption of that dream. And of course, that compounded with the drug use made it all the more insane." Credit: Paramount Pictures "The Wolf of Wall Street" DiCaprio (pictured with Jonah Hill, whose characters are both under the influence of excessive quaalude intake) said Scorsese fostered improvisation among the cast, and that the attitude on set of "anything goes" reflected the general ethos of the characters. "That's the environment that he wanted to create. It was almost like organized chaos, you know? There was a lot of improvisation beforehand. Then, we rewrote the script according to that improvisation. But then, when we'd get on set, we'd re-improvise that improvisation. It became this sort of insanely loose, insanely free improvisational atmosphere." Credit: Paramount Pictures "The Wolf of Wall Street" Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio attend the U.K.

premiere of "The Wolf of Wall Street," at London's Leicester Square, January 9, 2014 in London. Credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images Eddie Awards Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks (costars from "Catch Me If You Can") pose in the green room at the 64th Annual ACE Eddie Awards at Paramount Studios on February 7, 2014 in Hollywood, Calif. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images "The Wolf of Wall Street" Actors Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio speak at the 2014 Variety Screening Series of 'The Wolf of Wall Street' at ArcLight Hollywood on February 10, 2014 in Hollywood, Calif.

Credit: Angela Weiss/Getty Images Golden Globes Actor Leonardo DiCaprio won the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Comedy/Musical) for "The Wolf of Wall Street." Credit: Valerine Macon/AFP/Getty Images Leonardo DiCaprio as frontiersman Hugh Glass in a scene from "The Revenant." Credit: Twentieth Century Fox/AP Golden Globes Director Alejandro González Iñárritu poses with awards for Best Director and Best Motion Picture (Drama), and Leonardo DiCaprio poses with the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for TThe Revenant," in the press room at the 73nd annual Golden Globe Awards, January 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. For more info: Romeo & Juliet vs. the 1996 Film Essay - 953 Words Romeo & Juliet The Movie vs. William Shakespeare's Play Scene Comparison By: Ben Carleton If you are wondering whether you should watch the new Romeo & Juliet movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio after you have read the play by William Shakespeare than you must read this! All you need to know regarding the difference in the main scenes is right here.

The biggest differences in scenes were the death scene of Mercutio and Tybalt and the death scene of Romeo and Juliet. Another big difference in scenes is the Capulet party. Just as in the play, Romeo and Juliet both die in the Capulet tomb. Although they both die in the Capulet tomb the Capulet tomb is not in the same area in the movie. In the movie the Capulet tomb is a giant tomb positioned in the middle of the city where as in the play it was a somewhat small tomb that is positioned in a cemetery. The biggest difference in the death scenes is that in the movie when Romeo enters the tomb Paris is not there. Because he is not there Romeo does not kill Paris in the tomb as in the play. Unlike in the play, in the movie when Juliet wakes up the Friar Lawrence is not there. Like in the play, Romeo and Juliet both die beside each other. But when Romeo kills himself he does not notice that Juliet is actually awake, in the movie. Also, after Juliet gains the strength to move she kills herself with Romeo's gun, not his knife.

These two star-crossed lovers killed themselves over the love they had for each other, which only began a few days before at the Capulets party. Unlike in the play, where it seems that Romeo had been intoxicated, he instead takes a tablet of ecstasy. When entering the party in the movie Romeo says " Thy drugs are quick". He is referring to the ecstasy tablet that was given to him by Mercuto. In the play he states this after he drinks the lethal potion in the tomb. Before going to the party Mercutio tells Romeo and friends the Queen Mab speech. He changes it in the movie by... Essay about Romeo & Juliet ...Romeo & Juliet Author William Shakespeare was born in Statford-upon-Avon on April 23 1564. He went to free grammar school in Stratford. It was a good school where he learned even Greek and Latin. But he didn’t go to college that’s so people thought he didn’t write his work, because apparently in that time if you didn’t go to college you weren’t smart enough to write such good books and plays. He started getting famous in 1592 when he showed in his talent...

1150 Words | 3 Pages Romeo and Juliet film comparison Research Paper ...﻿Romeo and Juliet- Film Comparison Baz Luhrman and Franco Zeffirelli’s interpretations of Romeo and Juliet are both excellent films. They both capture the moments between the two star-crossed lovers of enemy houses quite well. Although both are very different films. The main difference between them is their setting. Franco Zeffirelli’s is set in the 16th century in Italy which was based in the... 556 Words | 2 Pages romeo and juliet Essay ...according voice’ he is saying that Paris has his approval but it is up to Juliet to make the final decision. The way Capulet handles the situation with Paris shows the love and kindness he feels for his daughter. Capulet allows Juliet to decide if she wants to marry this man. This wouldn’t have happened very often in Elizabethan times as the richer families often married for wealth not love and here Capulet is asking, not telling, Juliet to marry this... 1698 Words | 5 Pages Essay on Romeo and Juliet 1968 vs. 1996 Films ...essential visual differences in the film prove to be complete opposites.

The 1968 version by Franco Zeffirelli, depicts a traditional Romeo and Juliet. There was nothing visually stunning about the accustomed Renaissance setting that was doused in neutral colors. Costuming was accurate and conventional for the time. In general this adaptation stays truer to the way Shakespeare had intended. In the 1996 version by Baz Luhrmann, the... 284 Words | 1 Pages Essay about Romeo and Juliet ...ENG2D3 21 May 2013 Romeo and Juliet: Text vs. Films Comparison From their representation of characters to their use of language, Zefirelli and Luhrmann take two very different approaches to Shakespeare’s second most famous theatrical work. The 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is set to a more traditional idea. The historical architecture of these towns provides a somewhat... 620 Words | 2 Pages Romeo and Juliet Film Review Essay ...Philosophy Philosophy Can Make A Movie Film: Romeo and Juliet Director: Baz Luhrmann Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes Plot: Two lovers of rival, disputing families take their lives.

Rating: Reviewer: Claire Ginn Welcome to Verona Beach, a sexy, violent other-world, neither future nor past, ruled by two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets... So begins Baz Luhrmann's production of Shakespeare's beloved play,... 691 Words | 3 Pages Romeo and Juliet Film Comparison Essay ...Comparisons of Films From watching the older and more modern version of the killing of Mercutio and Tybalt there are obvious differences, as well as hidden ones. The comparison is between the Zeffirelli version and the more modern version. Watching these movies, paying close attention is important because it is not just the scenery and which characters are played by whom, but what the director was trying to portray in this scene. Both these versions were very different and...

1487 Words | 4 Pages Essay on Romeo and Juliet vs Antigone ...Similarities/Differences of Romeo and Juliet/Antigone Rossiter Worthington Raymond once said, “Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” Many themes can be illuminated in this quote, but there are three that stand out and relate to the plot lines of these two tragic plays, in a way that makes the emotions and perception of the characters much more palpable and heartfelt. Shakespeare’s... 1194 Words | 3 Pages See the Cast of Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' Then and Now See the Cast of Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' Then and Now Jeremy Taylor | May 9, 2013 @ 1:30 PM Director Baz Luhrmann's splashy modernization of the William Shakespeare classic 'Romeo and Juliet' was a hit with critics and tweens alike in 1996. Besides being visually stunning, 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet' featured a few of today's brightest stars before they had hit it big.

See what the cast is up to these days below. Leonardo DiCaprio, Romeo 20th Century Fox/Jason Merritt, Getty Images Then: When Leonardo Dicaprio starred in 'Romeo + Juliet' he was well on his way to becoming a superstar thanks to roles in films like 'The Basketball Diaries' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.' But it was wasn't until 1997 that his lead role in ' Titanic ' made him into a one-name, A-list superstar. Now: Dicaprio reunited with Luhrmann for 'The Great Gatsby.' After that it will be 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' Leo's fifth collaboration with Martin Scorsese. Claire Danes, Juliet 20th Century Fox/Alberto E. Rodriguez, Getty Images Then: When shooting for 'Romeo + Juliet' began, Natalie Portman was the female lead. However the consensus was that the seven year age difference between her and DiCaprio was too great, and it looked like he was "molesting" her.

Enter Claire Danes, who was a couple years closer to DiCaprio in age and was coming off her critically-acclaimed turn as Angela Chase on 'My So Called Life.' Now: Danes returned to the small screen to great acclaim, scoring two Golden Globes and an Emmy for her role as Carrie Mathison on 'Homeland.' John Leguizamo, Tybalt 20th Century Fox/Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Then: In 'Romeo + Juliet,' John Leguizamo was Tybalt, the Capulet who most has it in for Romeo. Originally a stand-up comic, Leguizamo's acting career started taking off in the early '90s with movies like 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Carlito's Way.' Now: Leguizamo will star in the upcoming film 'Fugly.' Also a successful stage actor, his latest one-man show, 'Ghetto Klown,' has played in theaters all over America.

Harold Perrineau, Mercutio Then: Harold Perrineau's Mercutio gets caught up in the Montague and Capulet crossfire in 'Romeo + Juliet.' Perrineau had made his acting debut as a dancer on 'Fame' and later became known for his role as Augustus on the HBO prison drama 'Oz' and as Link in the two 'Matrix' sequels. And, of course, he was Michael on 'Lost.' Now: In 2012, Perrineau was in 'Zero Dark Thirty' and did an arc on 'Sons of Anarchy.' More recently, he was a series regular on 'The Wedding Band,' but the show was just cancelled after one season. Pete Postlethwaite, Father Laurence Then: Pete Postlethwaite brought gravity to the role of Father Laurence.

Postlethwaite was best known at the time for his Oscar-nominated turn in 'In The Name of The Father.' The English actor had followed that up with appearances in films like 'The Usual Suspects,' 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' and 'Amistad.' (Steven Spielberg once called Postlethwaite "the best actor in the world.") Now: Sadly Postlethwaite passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2011. He was 64. Among his last films were 'Inception' and 'The Town.' Paul Rudd, Dave Paris Then: Well before he was one of the leading men of comedy, Paul Rudd was Dave Paris, the governor's son whom Juliet was supposed to marry, in 'Romeo + Juliet.' Rudd had gotten his big break the year before as Josh in ' Clueless .' Now: Rudd recently starred in 'This is 40' and 'Admission.' Among his upcoming projects are 'Almost Christmas,' 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues' and 'Freezing People is Easy' with Owen Wilson and Christopher Walken.

Paul Sorvino, Fulgencio Capulet Then: Paul Sorvino was Capulet patriarch Fulgencio. The Brooklyn-born actor was well known for playing mobsters in movies like 'Goodfellas,' ' Dick Tracy ' and ' The Rocketeer ' and for being the father of actress Mira Sorvino. Now: Sorvino has been in no less than eight movies in the past year. (One of them was 'Jersey Shore Shark Attack.') In 2007, he launched Paul Sorvino Foods, which sells pasta sauce, olive oil and other Italian staples. Brian Dennehy, Ted Montague Then: That was Brian Dennehy as Romeo's father and the Montague family head. The veteran character actor, who first got wide notice playing Sheriff Will Teasle in 1982's 'First Blood,' was coming off a more comedic role as Big Tom in 1995's 'Tommy Boy.' Now: Dennehy was recently seen on 'The Good Wife.' In 2012, he starred in the Eugene O'Neill play 'The Iceman Cometh' during its run in Chicago.

Jesse Bradford, Balthasar Then: You probably remember Jesse Bradford as young Montague family member Balthasar. A successful child actor, Bradford's most notable role had been as the star of the 1993 Steven Soderbergh film 'King of the Hill.' Now: Bradford is a regular on the sitcom 'Guys With Kids.' He also appeared in the film 'The Power of Few.' Dash Mihok, Benvolio Then: Dash Mihok played trigger-happy Montague, Benvolio. During that time period he was also starring on the Rhea Perlman sitcom 'Pearl.' Now: Minok was the police officer in the David O. Russell hit 'Silver Linings Playbook.' He will be in the upcoming Showtime series 'Ray Donovan,' and is a spokesman for the anti-bullying foundation Jaylen's Challenge.' Diane Venora, Gloria Capulet Then: Diane Venora played the flamboyant matriarch of the Capulet family.

The actress was on a hot streak at the time, following a role in Michael Mann's 'Heat' and a run on 'Chicago Hope.' Now: Diane's most recent role was in the 2010 Ryan Gosling vehicle 'All Good Things.' Jamie Kennedy, Sampson Then: No, that's not a character from 'Spring Breakers.' It's funnyman Jamie Kennedy as gun-slinging Montague, Sampson. The goofy actor broke through big in 1996 with a memorable role in 'Scream.' Now: Kennedy has had various degrees of success in film ('Malibu's Most Wanted') and TV ('The Jamie Kennedy Project'). In addition to voice acting work on 'The Cleveland Show' and 'Fanboy and Chum Chum,' Kennedy recently hosted quite possibly the most disastrous New Year's Eve show of all time .

Question: Who played 'Juliet' opposite Leonardo Di Caprio in the 1996 film 'Romeo And Juliet'?
Answer: CLARE DANES