It's been the ultimate love story for more than four hundred years. The tragic tale of forbidden love has enchanted countless theater audiences and when film was invented, it made it to the big screen in several versions too. If you want to relive this beautiful tale, you can do it with the Romeo and Juliet new movie coming out in 2013.
Written at the start of his career, Shakespeare's most enduring play saw its first appearance in print in 1597. A few decades earlier there was a similar story in Italy and The Bard borrowed from this. In fact, there is a balcony in Verona that is said to be the one where the real girls the female title character was based on appeared to her lover.
The plot tells of two young people from opposing families in Italy. The House of Montague and the House of Capulet have been feuding for many years. However, Romeo of the Montague family attends a party at the Capulet house one night by sneaking in uninvited. He encounters Juliet and they fall in love. The two young lovers get married the next day, but do it in secret because their families will never approve.
Meanwhile Juliet's cousin Tybalt is outraged at the way Romeo sneaked into the ball and challenges him to a duel. Romeo's friend Mercutio fights on his behalf and is killed. The grief-stricken hero then kills Tybalt, which leads to him being exiled from Verona.
The Capulet family decides to marry Juliet off to someone else, oblivious of the fact that she's already married a Montague. Desperate to escape this fate, she asks the priest to help her. He provides her with a drug that will put her into a deep sleep, simulating death for a while. A message is sent to the hero but doesn't reach him. The hero hears that his wife has 'died' and he travels to the crypt where her body is being kept. There he kills himself by drinking poison. His bride wakes up and finds him dead, so she grabs his dagger and kills herself too.
Since the earliest years of the film industry, there have been various big-screen adaptations of the tragic story. Several films used it as part of the plot or have been loosely based on it too. A respected director from Italy, Carlo Carlei, directed the latest movie version.
Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld will play the title characters. British model and actor Booth got chosen from three hundred hopefuls to play the role last portrayed in a significant movie by a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Steinfeld, who was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for her performance in 'True Grit', is the latest in a series of actresses of note who played the heroine in film. They include Norma Shearer and Claire Danes.
Younger audiences will be drawn to the Romeo and Juliet new movie for Ed Westwick of 'Gossip Girl' fame. He plays Tybault. Stellan Skarsgard, Natascha McElhone and Lesley Manville are some of the other big names in the cast. Release is set for early February 2013, making this the perfect occasion for a Valentine's Day date.
Written at the start of his career, Shakespeare's most enduring play saw its first appearance in print in 1597. A few decades earlier there was a similar story in Italy and The Bard borrowed from this. In fact, there is a balcony in Verona that is said to be the one where the real girls the female title character was based on appeared to her lover.
The plot tells of two young people from opposing families in Italy. The House of Montague and the House of Capulet have been feuding for many years. However, Romeo of the Montague family attends a party at the Capulet house one night by sneaking in uninvited. He encounters Juliet and they fall in love. The two young lovers get married the next day, but do it in secret because their families will never approve.
Meanwhile Juliet's cousin Tybalt is outraged at the way Romeo sneaked into the ball and challenges him to a duel. Romeo's friend Mercutio fights on his behalf and is killed. The grief-stricken hero then kills Tybalt, which leads to him being exiled from Verona.
The Capulet family decides to marry Juliet off to someone else, oblivious of the fact that she's already married a Montague. Desperate to escape this fate, she asks the priest to help her. He provides her with a drug that will put her into a deep sleep, simulating death for a while. A message is sent to the hero but doesn't reach him. The hero hears that his wife has 'died' and he travels to the crypt where her body is being kept. There he kills himself by drinking poison. His bride wakes up and finds him dead, so she grabs his dagger and kills herself too.
Since the earliest years of the film industry, there have been various big-screen adaptations of the tragic story. Several films used it as part of the plot or have been loosely based on it too. A respected director from Italy, Carlo Carlei, directed the latest movie version.
Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld will play the title characters. British model and actor Booth got chosen from three hundred hopefuls to play the role last portrayed in a significant movie by a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Steinfeld, who was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for her performance in 'True Grit', is the latest in a series of actresses of note who played the heroine in film. They include Norma Shearer and Claire Danes.
Younger audiences will be drawn to the Romeo and Juliet new movie for Ed Westwick of 'Gossip Girl' fame. He plays Tybault. Stellan Skarsgard, Natascha McElhone and Lesley Manville are some of the other big names in the cast. Release is set for early February 2013, making this the perfect occasion for a Valentine's Day date.
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