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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
The story - the movie

The story "Romeo & Juliet" goes on in the Italian city Verona for about 400 years ago (of course - Baz Luhrmann's version goes on in our time). Two rival families, The Montesches and The Capellets (The Montagues and The Capulets), rule the town. In the middle of the warzone something happens, that is not allowed to happen: Two young people, one from each family, fall in love with each other. Their names are Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Their love is secret and not accepted, but anyway they marry each other with help from the priest friar Laurence. Their romance gets more and more dangerous, when Romeo gets banished for a lethal act of avenge and Juliet gets a man of her own family as fiancée. Romeo moves to Mantua. Juliet drinks a poison to make her look dead-alike in 24 hours, and that's how she fools everybody to believe that she actually is dead, including her family and Romeo's servant, Balthasar. Only friar laurence knows about her secret plan. Romeo in Mantua gets a message from Balthasar, a message who says that Juliet is dead. Romeo goes to Verona to commit suicide by Juliet's side. At the crypt, where Juliet lies, Romeo finds Paris, Juliet's fiancée (original version). They get into a fight, and Paris gets killed. Romeo drinks a poison by Juliet's side, and in the original version he dies, before Juliet wakes up. In Baz Luhrmann's version he actually drinks the poison while she's awake, but she is to "dozy" after her 24-hour sleep. Well, he drinks the poison and dies. In Baz Luhrmann's version he dies while she's watching, and they get to say goodbye to each other with a kiss. She kills herself with his gun. In the original version, she wakes up, sees him dead and stabs herself. The ending of this story is, that the Montagues and the Capulets make peace with each other.

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