What's the Difference between Romeo and Juliet the Book and Romeo + Juliet the Movie?
Romeo + Juliet Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
The Capulets and the Montagues are warring families in Italy. |
The two are family run corporations that are against each other. |
Romeo goes to the Capulet crypt to find Juliet's body and encounters Paris there. Romeo kills him. |
Romeo doesn't encounter anyone at the crypt and Paris is not killed.
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Romeo kills Paris at the Capulet tomb. |
This does not happen. |
in the book romeo cant sneak Into juliets home because she has sucurity |
romeo sneaks everyday at night time
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However, back in Shakespeare times the costuming he may have intended would have been Elizabethan style. |
Lurmann’s costumes are highly modernized. The opening scene finds the Montague boys wearing Hawaiian shirts and having unnaturally colored hair, while the Capulet’s have leather jackets and metal boots. |