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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss is a fully animated feature fantasy about two star crossed seals from warring families that fall in love against their parents’ wishes. When Juliet’s father gives her hand in marriage to the monstrous elephant seal Prince, Juliet must fake her death in order to be reunited with Romeo. But the plan goes afoul and it’s a desperate race to the end. With the help of their friends Friar Lawrence and Kissy, the kissing fish, the day is saved and the young lovers are reunited. Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss is the ageless tale of love and prejudice set in an undersea world. A film that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
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Please report this problemUpgrade to PremiumTrailer is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona but still retaining its original dialogue.ÂActors: Leonardo DiCaprio,Claire Danes,John Leguizamo,Harold Perrineau,Pete Postlethwaite,Paul Sorvino,Brian Dennehy,Paul Rudd,Vondie Curtis-Hall,Miriam Margolyes,Jesse Bradford,..»Country: United StatesQuality: HDIMDb: 6.8Keywords:- Played by: Leonardo DiCaprioPlayed by: Claire DanesPlayed by: John LeguizamoPlayed by: Harold PerrineauPlayed by: Pete PostlethwaitePlayed by: Paul SorvinoPlayed by: Brian DennehyPlayed by: Paul RuddPlayed by: Vondie Curtis-HallPlayed by: Miriam MargolyesPlayed by: Jesse BradfordPlayed by: M. Emmet WalshPlayed by: Zak OrthPlayed by: Jamie KennedyPlayed by: Dash MihokPlayed by: Vincent LarescaPlayed by: Carlos ManzoPlayed by: Christina PicklesPlayed by: Diane VenoraPlayed by: Pedro Altamirano
- Birthdate: 17 September 1962, New South Wales, Australia
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- A slick blast of 'decadence,' the kind of violent swank-trash music video that may make you feel like reaching for the remote control. Mediafire download gta 5.Doesn't approach the emotional resonance of Franco Zeffirelli's immensely popular 1968 screen version.Luhrmann's gleefully cinematic version of the play is so relentlessly inventive and innovative, it takes 20 minutes to get a grasp on how appropriate is his approach to the material.Where is the audience willing to watch a classic play thrown in the path of a subway train?Puts Shakespeare's greatest romance in a choke-hold and takes it slam-dancing.A monumental disaster.a fantastic introduction to Shakespeare for the novice and the youngPut simply: you're not likely to regard Romeo + Juliet as truly great cinema unless the song 'Lovefool' stirs your soul.Look back on your first love, without it making you wince.One of the liveliest Shakespeare adaps of the past 20 years ..Luhrmann bombards us with startling images, audacious camera tricks and breathtaking action .. [in order to recreate] the overwhelming experience of adolescent love.Luhrmann would use the same techniques with better results in Moulin Rouge! Avatar the last airbender free online.
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Directed by | Baz Luhrmann |
Produced by | Baz Luhrmann Gabriella Martinelli |
Screenplay by | Craig Pearce Baz Luhrmann |
Based on | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare |
Starring | |
Music by | Nellee Hooper Marius de Vries Craig Armstrong |
Cinematography | Donald M. McAlpine |
Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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120 minutes[1] | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $14.5 million |
Box office | $147.5 million[2] |
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (often shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 American romanticcrimetragedy directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann, co-produced by Gabriella Martinelli, and co-written by Craig Pearce. It is an adaptation and modernization of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles of Romeo and Juliet, who instantly fall in love when Romeo crashes a party and meets her, despite being members of feuding families. Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino, and Diane Venora star in supporting roles.
The film was released on November 1, 1996, by 20th Century Fox to commercial success, and was met with generally positive reviews. The film grossed over $147.5 million over a $14.5 million budget. At the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, DiCaprio won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer Prize.[3] Luhrmann was also nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture.[4] At the 69th Academy Awards, Catherine Martin and Brigitte Broch were nominated for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration.[4] In 2005, the film was included on the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.[5]
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Plot[edit]
In Verona Beach, the Capulets and Montagues are rivals. The animosity of the older generation—Fulgencio and Gloria Capulet and Ted and Caroline Montague—is felt by their younger relatives. A gunfight between Montagues led by Benvolio, Romeo's cousin, and Capulets led by Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, creates chaos in the city. The Chief of Police, Captain Prince, reprimands the families, warning them that their lives 'shall pay the forfeit of the peace'.
Benvolio and Romeo learn of a Capulet party that evening which they decide to gate-crash. Romeo agrees on hearing that Rosaline, with whom he is in love, is attending. They meet their friend, Mercutio, who has tickets to the party, and Romeo takes ecstasy as they proceed to the Capulet mansion. The effects of the drug and the party overwhelm Romeo, who goes to the restroom. While admiring an aquarium, he sees Juliet on the other side, and the two instantly fall in love, both unaware who the other is. Tybalt spots Romeo and vows to kill him for invading his family's home.
After Romeo leaves the party, he and Juliet each learn that they belong to feuding families, but Romeo sneaks back to see her. Juliet tells him that if he sends word by the following day, they will be betrothed. The next day, Romeo asks Father Laurence to marry them, and he agrees, hoping their marriage will end the feud. Romeo passes the word on via Juliet's nurse and the lovers are married.
Tybalt encounters Mercutio and Romeo at the beach. Romeo attempts to make peace, but Tybalt assaults him. Mercutio intervenes and is about to kill Tybalt when Romeo stops him. Tybalt uses the opportunity to inflict a deadly wound on Mercutio, who curses both houses before dying. Enraged, Romeo chases after a fleeing Tybalt and guns him down.
Captain Prince banishes Romeo from the city, and he goes into hiding with Father Laurence. The nurse arrives and tells him that Juliet is waiting for him. Romeo climbs over Juliet's balcony, and they consummate their marriage. Meanwhile, Fulgencio decides Juliet will marry Dave Paris, the governor's son.
The next morning, Gloria tells Juliet that she is to marry Paris. She refuses and Fulgencio threatens to disown her. Juliet runs away and seeks out Father Laurence, imploring him to help her and threatening to commit suicide. Father Laurence gives her a potion that will let her fake her own death and be put in the Capulet vault to awaken 24 hours later. Romeo will be informed of the plot, sneak into the vault, and once reunited the two can escape to Mantua. But Romeo learns of Juliet's apparent death from Balthasar and leaves for Verona before the message from Father Laurence arrives.
Romeo enters the church where Juliet lies and bids her goodbye, and, thinking her dead, drinks a vial of poison. Juliet awakens just in time for them to share a final kiss before Romeo dies. A distraught Juliet picks up Romeo's gun and shoots herself in the head. The two lovers are soon discovered in each other's arms. Captain Prince condemns both families whose feuding led to such tragedy, while coroners quickly transport the two bodies to the morgue.
Cast[edit]
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Natalie Portman had been cast as Juliet but, during rehearsals, it was felt that the footage looked as though DiCaprio was 'molesting' her.[7] Baz Luhrmann has also stated that Portman was too young at the time, and made DiCaprio look older than intended. He was 21 at the time of filming and Portman was only 14.[8]
After Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down the role due to scheduling conflicts, DiCaprio proclaimed that Danes should be cast, as he felt she was genuine in her line delivery and did not try to impress him by acting flirtatious.[9]
Differences with the movie and the original play[edit]
While it retains the original Shakespearean dialogue, the film represents the Montagues and the Capulets as warring mafia empires (with legitimate business fronts) during contemporary America, and swords are replaced with guns (with brand names such as 'Dagger' and 'Sword'). Some characters' names are also changed. Lord and Lady Montague and Lord and Lady Capulet are given first names (in the original, their first names are never mentioned); Friar Laurence becomes Father Laurence, and Prince Escalus is rewritten as the police chief of Verona Beach, being renamed Captain Prince. The adaptation eliminates the character of Friar John, and some characters change families: in the original, Gregory and Sampson are Capulets, but in the film, they are Montagues (Abram, as Abra, and Petruchio, conversely, are shifted from the Montague to the Capulet family). In addition, a few plot details are shifted, most notably toward the ending.
Production[edit]
After the success of Strictly Ballroom, Luhrmann took some time over deciding what his next project would be:
Our philosophy has always been that we think up what we need in our life, choose something creative that will make that life fulfilling, and then follow that road. With Romeo and Juliet what I wanted to do was to look at the way in which Shakespeare might make a movie of one of his plays if he was a director. How would he make it? We don't know a lot about Shakespeare, but we do know he would make a 'movie' movie. He was a player. We know about the Elizabethan stage and that he was playing for 3000 drunken punters, from the street sweeper to the Queen of England - and his competition was bear-baiting and prostitution. So he was a relentless entertainer and a user of incredible devices and theatrical tricks to ultimately create something of meaning and convey a story. That was what we wanted to do.[10]
Luhrmann obtained some funds from Fox to do a workshop and shoot some teaser footage in Sydney. Leonardo DiCaprio agreed to pay his own expenses to fly to Sydney and be part of it. Once Fox saw footage of the fight scene, they agreed to support it.[10]
All of the development was done in Australia, with pre-production in Australia and Canada and post-production in Australia. While some parts of the film were shot in Miami, most of the film was shot in Mexico City and Boca del Rio, Veracruz. For instance, the Capulet mansion was set at Chapultepec Castle while the ballroom was built on Stage One of Churubusco Studios; and the church is Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Del Valle neighborhood.[11]
Reception[edit]
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Box office[edit]
The film premiered on November 1, 1996, in the United States and Canada, in 1,276 theaters, and grossed $11.1 million its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office. It went on to gross $46.3 million in the United States and Canada,[12] with a worldwide total of USD$147,554,998.[2]
Critical response[edit]
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes rated the film 'Fresh', with 72% of 64 critics giving positive reviews with an average rating of 6.6/10 with the consensus that says, 'Baz Luhrmann's visual aesthetic is as divisive as it is fresh and inventive'.[13]James Berardinelli gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and wrote, 'Ultimately, no matter how many innovative and unconventional flourishes it applies, the success of any adaptation of a Shakespeare play is determined by two factors: the competence of the director and the ability of the main cast members. Luhrmann, Danes, and DiCaprio place this Romeo and Juliet in capable hands.'[14]
Leonardo DiCaprio won Favorite Actor and Claire Danes won Favorite Actress in a Romance at the 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.[4] At the 1997 MTV Movie Awards, Danes won Best Female Performance. DiCaprio was nominated for Best Male Performance, and DiCaprio and Danes were both nominated for Best Kiss and Best On-Screen Duo.[4] At the 51st BAFTA Film Awards, director Baz Luhrmann won Best Direction, Luhrmann and Mary Haile won the Best Adapted Screenplay, Nellee Hooper won the Best Film Music, and Catherine Martin won the Best Production Design. The film was also nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Sound.[4]
The film won several awards.[4] At the 47th Berlin International Film Festival in 1997, DiCaprio won the Silver Bear for Best Actor and Luhrmann won the Alfred Bauer Prize.[3] Luhrmann was also nominated for the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture.[4] At the 69th Academy Awards, Catherine Martin and Brigitte Broch were nominated for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration.[4]
Conversely, Roger Ebert gave the film a mixed review of only 2 stars out of 4, saying, 'I've seen King Lear as a samurai drama and Macbeth as a Mafia story, and two different Romeo and Juliets about ethnic difficulties in Manhattan (West Side Story and China Girl), but I have never seen anything remotely approaching the mess that the new punk version of Romeo & Juliet makes of Shakespeare's tragedy.'[15]
The film was nominated to appear on the American Film Institute's 100 Years .. 100 Passions list in 2002.[16]
Home media[edit]
The film was originally released on VHS and DVD in 1997. A 10th anniversary special edition DVD containing extra features and commentary was released on February 6, 2007, while a Blu-ray edition was released on October 19, 2010.
Soundtrack[edit]
- '#1 Crush' – Garbage
- 'Local God' – Everclear
- 'Angel' – Gavin Friday
- 'Pretty Piece of Flesh' – One Inch Punch
- 'Kissing You (Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet)' – Des'ree
- 'Whatever (I Had a Dream)' – Butthole Surfers
- 'Lovefool' – The Cardigans
- 'Young Hearts Run Free' – Kym Mazelle
- 'Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)' – Quindon Tarver
- 'To You I Bestow' – Mundy
- 'Talk Show Host' – Radiohead
- 'Little Star' – Stina Nordenstam
- 'You and Me Song' – The Wannadies
References[edit]
- ^'WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (12)'. 20th Century Fox. British Board of Film Classification. December 2, 1996. Retrieved October 10, 2013.
- ^ ab'Romeo + Juliet (1996)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
- ^ ab'Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners'. berlinale.de. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
- ^ abcdefgh'Romeo + Juliet (1996): Awards'. IMDb.com. IMDb. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^Packard, Kim. 'CONSIDERING 'THE BFI LIST OF 50 FILMS YOU SHOULD WATCH BY THE AGE OF 14''. MUBI. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
- ^Lahr, John (September 9, 2013). 'Where do Claire Danes' Volcanic Performances Come From?'. New Yorker Magazine. New Yorker Magazine. p. 2. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- ^Ryan, James (February 25, 1996). 'UP AND COMING: Natalie Portman; Natalie Portman (Not Her Real Name)'. The New York Times.
- ^Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca (September 6, 1996). 'Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet: On set with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes'. Entertainment Weekly.
- ^Lahr, John. 'Where do Claire Danes' Volcanic Performances Come From?'. NewYorker.com. The New Yorker. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
- ^ ab'Interview with Baz Luhrmann', Signet, 19 December 1996 accessed 19 November 2012
- ^'Romeo + Juliet - Official Website, Production Notes'.
- ^'Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Weekend Box Office'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
- ^'William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet - Rotten Tomatoes'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
- ^Berardinelli, James (1996). 'Review: Romeo and Juliet (1996)'. ReelReviews.net. Retrieved October 4, 2010.
- ^Ebert, Roger. 'Romeo + Juliet Movie Review & Film Summary (1996) | Roger Ebert'. www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ^'AFI's 100 Years .. 100 Passions Nominees'(PDF). Retrieved August 19, 2016.
- General
- Lehmann, Courtney. 'Strictly Shakespeare? Dead Letters, Ghostly Fathers, and the Cultural Pathology of Authorship in Baz Luhrmann's 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet'.' Shakespeare Quarterly. 52.2 (Summer 2001) pp. 189–221.
- Malone, Toby. Behind the Red Curtain of Verona Beach: Baz Luhrmann's 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet' Shakespeare Survey. 65 (1), 2012. pp 398–412.
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'Romeo and Juliet' has been filmed many times in many ways; Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard starred in the beloved 1936 Hollywood version, and modern transformations include Robert Wise's 'West Side Story' (1961), which applies the plot to Manhattan gang warfare; Abel Ferrara's 'China Girl' (1987), about a forbidden romance between a girl of Chinatown and a boy of Little Italy, and Baz Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' (1996), with California punk gangs on Verona Beach. But the favorite film version is likely to remain, for many years, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 production.
His crucial decision, in a film where almost everything went well, was to cast actors who were about the right age to play the characters (as Howard and Shearer were obviously not). As the play opens, Juliet 'hath not seen the change of 14 years,' and Romeo is little older. This is first love for Juliet, and Romeo's crush on the unseen Rosalind is forgotten the moment he sees Juliet at the masked ball: 'I ne'er saw true beauty until this night.' After a well-publicized international search, Zeffirelli cast Olivia Hussey, a 16-year-old from Argentina, and Leonard Whiting, a British 17-year-old.
They didn't merely look their parts, they embodied them in the freshness of their personalities, and although neither was a trained actor, they were fully equal to Shakespeare's dialogue for them; Anthony Holden's new book William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius contrasts 'the beautiful simplicity with which the lovers speak at their moments of uncomplicated happiness,' with 'the ornate rhetorical flourishes which fuel so much else in the play'--flourishes that Zeffirelli severely pruned, trimming about half the play. He was roundly criticized for his edits, but much that needs describing on the stage can simply be shown onscreen, as when Benvolio is shown witnessing Juliet's funeral and thus does not need to evoke it in a description to the exiled Romeo. Shakespeare, who took such wholesale liberties with his own sources, might have understood.
What is left is what people love the play for--the purity of the young lovers' passion, the earthiness of Juliet's nurse, the well-intentioned plans of Friar Laurence, the hot-blooded feud between the young men of the families, the cruel irony of the double deaths. And there is time, too, for many of the great speeches, including Mercutio's poetic evocation of Mab, the queen of dreams.
Hussey and Whiting were so good because they didn't know any better. Another year or two of experience, perhaps, and they would have been too intimidated to play the roles. It was my good fortune to visit the film set, in a small hill town an hour or so outside Rome, on the night when the balcony scene was filmed. I remember Hussey and Whiting upstairs in the old hillside villa, waiting for their call, unaffected, uncomplicated. And when the balcony scene was shot, I remember the heedless energy that Hussey threw into it, take after take, hurling herself almost off the balcony for hungry kisses. (Whiting, balanced in a tree, needed to watch his footing.)
Between shots, in the overgrown garden, Zeffirelli strolled with the composer Nino Rota, who had written the music for most of Fellini's films and now simply hummed the film's central theme, as the director nodded. Pasqualino De Santis, who was to win an Oscar for his cinematography, directed his crew quietly, urgently, trying to be ready for the freshness of the actors instead of making them wait for technical quibbles. At dawn, drinking strong coffee as cars pulled around to take his actors back to Rome, Zeffirelli said what was obvious: That the whole movie depended on the balcony and the crypt scenes, and he felt now that his casting decision had proven itself, and that the film would succeed.
It did, beyond any precedent for a film based on Shakespeare, even though Shakespeare is the most filmed writer in history. The movie opened in the tumultuous year of 1968, a time of political upheaval around the world, and somehow the story of the star-crossed lovers caught the mood of rebellious young people who had wearied of their elders' wars. 'This of all works of literature eternizes the ardor of young love and youth's aggressive spirit,' wrote Anthony Burgess.
Zeffirelli, born in Florence in 1923, came early to the English language through prewar experiences hinted at in the loosely autobiographical 'Tea With Mussolini' (1999). His crucial early artistic influence was Laurence Olivier's 'Henry V' (1945), which inspired him to go into the theater; he has had parallel careers directing plays, films and operas. Before the great success of 'Romeo and Juliet,' be first visited Shakespeare for the shaky but high-spirited 'Taming of the Shrew' (1967), with Burton and Taylor. Later he directed Placido Domingo in 'Otello' (1986), Verdi's opera, and directed Mel Gibson in 'Hamlet' (1991).
'Romeo and Juliet' remains the magical high point of his career. To see it again is to luxuriate. It is intriguing that Zeffirelli in 1968 focused on love, while Baz Luhrmann's popular version of 1996 focused on violence; something fundamental has changed in films about and for young people, and recent audiences seem shy of sex and love but eager for conflict and action. I wonder if a modern Friday night audience would snicker at the heart-baring sincerity of the lovers.
Zeffirelli got some criticism from purists by daring to show Romeo and Juliet awakening in her bed, no doubt after experiencing physical love. In the play the same dialogue plays in the Capulets' orchard, where 'enter Romeo and Juliet, aloft' -- on her balcony, that is. I am as sure as I can be they have just left Juliet's bedchamber -- and after all, were they not wed by Friar Laurence (Milo O'Shea), and is it not right they should consummate their love before Romeo is banished into exile?
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The costumes by Danilo Donati won another Oscar for the film (it was also nominated for best picture and director), and they are crucial to its success; they are the avenue for color and richness to enter the frame, which is otherwise filled with gray and ochre stones and the colors of nature. The nurse (Pay Heywood) seems enveloped in a dry goods' sale of heavy fabrics, and Mercutio (John McEnery) comes flying a handkerchief that he uses as a banner, disguise and shroud. Hussey's dresses, with low bodices and simple patterns, set off her creamy skin and long hair; Whiting is able to inhabit his breeches, blouse and codpiece with the conviction that it is everyday clothing, not a costume.
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The costumes and everything else in the film--the photography, the music, above all Shakespeare's language--is so voluptuous, so sensuous. The stagecraft of the twinned death scenes is of course all contrivance; the friar's potion works with timing that is precisely wrong, and yet we forgive the manipulation because Shakespeare has been able to provide us with what is theoretically impossible, the experience of two young lovers each grieving the other's death. When the play was first staged in London, Holden writes, Shakespeare had the satisfaction 'of seeing the groundlings moved to emotions far beyond anything before known in the theater.' Why? Because of craft and art, yes, but also because Romeo and Juliet were not distant and august figures, not Caesars, Othellos or Macbeths, but a couple of kids in love, as everyone in the theater had known, and everyone in the theater had been.