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Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. The film adaptation of a Shakespeare play was a financial success during its time of release. It became popular among teenagers because it was the first adaptation to cast actors close to the age of the characters from the original play. Many critics also praised the film.

Additionally, it was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture , making it the last Shakespearean film to be nominated for the latter category. One summer morning in Verona , a longstanding feud between the Montague and the Capulet clans breaks out in a street brawl. The brawl is broken up by the Prince , who warns both families that any future violence between them will result in harsh consequences.

That night, two teenagers of the two families— Romeo and Juliet —meet at a Capulet masked ball and fall in love. Later, Romeo stumbles into the secluded garden under Juliet's bedroom balcony and the two exchange impassioned pledges. They are secretly married the next day by Romeo's confessor and father figure, Friar Laurence , with the assistance of Juliet's nurse.

That afternoon, Juliet's cousin Tybalt , furious that Romeo had attended his family's ball, insults him and challenges him to a brawl. Romeo now regards Tybalt as family and he refuses to fight him, which leads Romeo's best friend, Mercutio , to fight Tybalt instead. Despite Romeo's efforts to stop the fight, Tybalt mortally wounds Mercutio, who curses both the Montague and Capulet houses before dying.

Enraged over his friend's death, Romeo retaliates by fighting Tybalt and killing him. Romeo is subsequently punished by the Prince with banishment from Verona, with the threat of death if he ever returns. Romeo then secretly spends his wedding night with Juliet, the couple consummate their marriage, and Romeo flees. Juliet's parents, unaware of their daughter's secret marriage, have arranged for Juliet to marry wealthy Count Paris.

Juliet pleads with her parents to postpone the marriage, but they refuse and threaten to disown her. Juliet seeks out Friar Laurence for help, hoping to escape her arranged marriage to Paris and remain faithful to Romeo. At Friar Laurence's behest, she reconciles with her parents and agrees to their wishes. On the night before the wedding, Juliet consumes a potion prepared by Friar Laurence intended to make her appear dead for 42 hours.

Friar Laurence plans to inform Romeo of the hoax so that Romeo can meet Juliet after her burial and escape with her when she recovers from her swoon, so he sends Friar John to give Romeo a letter describing the plan. However, when Balthasar, Romeo's servant, sees Juliet being buried under the impression that she is dead, he goes to tell Romeo and reaches him before Friar John.

In despair, Romeo goes to Juliet's tomb and kills himself by drinking poison. Soon afterwards, Friar Laurence arrives as Juliet awakens. Despite his attempts to persuade her to flee from the crypt, Juliet refuses to leave Romeo, and once the Friar flees, she kills herself by plunging his dagger into her chest. Later, the two families, having ended their feud, attend their joint funeral and are condemned by the Prince.

Although Zeffirelli does not mention it in his autobiography, McCartney provided details on this account including meeting with Olivia Hussey and exchanging telegrams with her in his co-written autobiography. Zeffirelli engaged in a worldwide search for unknown teenage actors to play the parts of the two lovers. Musician Phil Collins was in the running for Romeo, while his then-girlfriend Lavinia Lang herself a great friend to Hussey was in the running for Juliet, [ 4 ] as was actress Anjelica Huston , but the latter's father, director John Huston , withdrew her from consideration when he decided to cast her in his film A Walk with Love and Death.

However, both stars had aged a year by the time filming began in the summer of We just hope to have the right chemistry — a melancholy Romeo who rebels like all the youth of today and a pure, determined Juliet. If we fail, it will be ridiculous. Laurence Olivier 's involvement in the production was by happenstance. He asked Zeffirelli if there was anything he could do, and was given the Prologue to read, then ended up dubbing the voice of Lord Montague as well as other assorted minor roles.

The film is set in 14th century Renaissance Italy. During post-production, several scenes were trimmed or cut. Act 5, Scene 3, in which Romeo fights and eventually kills Paris outside Juliet's crypt, was filmed but deleted from the final print. The Motion Picture Association of America initially gave the film a G rating in the United States when it was first released, although they re-rated it to a PG rating in its re-release.

The lawsuit was later dismissed on 25 May , by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie, who stated that the case did not meet the requirements for suspending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. Mackenzie also criticized the plaintiffs for "cherry picking" which statutes applied to their case. Fujie, in which Hussey and Whiting claimed that the Criterion physical media release triggered a new statute of limitations.

The new lawsuit was filed under state and federal laws intended to combat "revenge pornography", which prohibit non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Judge Fujie stated in full, "A comparison of the release with the prior versions shows no significant visible improvement in the film, particularly in the bedroom scene, to the naked eye.

Even in the absence of express consent, however, Plaintiffs' subsequent conduct in the decades that followed since the film's original release speaks to Plaintiffs' implied ratification and approval of the film, including the bedroom scene. This includes, among others, appearances and statements made by Plaintiffs during interviews and attendance at film festivals, during which Plaintiffs did not object to the continuing release and distribution of the successive releases of the film.

Two releases of the score of the film, composed by Nino Rota , have been made. In addition, various versions of the theme have been recorded and released, including a highly successful one by Henry Mancini , whose instrumental rendition was a success in the United States during June A third version called "Ai Giochi Addio", featuring lyrics by Elsa Morante and sung in the Italian version by Bruno Filippini, who plays the minstrel in the film, has been performed by opera singers such as Luciano Pavarotti and Natasha Marsh.

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Lawsuit [ edit ]. Soundtrack [ edit ]. Main article: Romeo and Juliet film soundtrack. References [ edit ]. The Numbers. Archived from the original on 11 June Retrieved 29 January Conversations with McCartney. New York: The Overlook Press. Not Dead Yet. Retrieved 8 May The Romeo and Juliet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 4 January Retrieved 4 January Turner Classic Movies.

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