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 story takes place in Verona, Italy. |
The location is Verona Beach, Florida, in the United States. |
The story takes place when it was written in the late 1500's. |
It is the 1990's.
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Fighting between the Montagues and the Capulets involves swords and fencing. |
They use hand guns. |
This doesn't happen. |
Romeo takes Ecstasy before going to the party at the Capulet house.
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Romeo finds Juliet in the crypt and believing that she is dead, drinks poison and dies. Juliet wakes up after he has died. |
Juliet wakes up after Romeo has taken the poison but before he has died. They share a last kiss. |