MR4: Romeo + Juliet

I introduce the movie Romeo and Juliet. This movie was made in the United States of America in 1996. The model of this movie is the one of the masterpieces of dramatist William Shakespeare. However, this movie is modernized. The lines of the original are used but, castles and swords are not in this movie.

Character: This movie has only two main characters. First, Romeo is the hero in this movie. He is the only son of the Montagues. Next, Juliet is the heroine and she is the only daughter of the Capulets.

Story: The scene of this story is in Fair Verona. The Capulets has been opposed to the Montagues for a long time. When they meet each other, they quarrel and fight. One day, the Capulets held a party. Anyone other than the Montagues were able to take part in the party. Romeo stole into the party with his friends. Romeo met Juliet there accidentally and they fell in love at first sight. However, the party was a plan of Juliet’s parents to let Juliet meet Paris as her future husband. And then, Romeo and Juliet realized that they were the children of rival families who fight against each other. But, they love each other. Romeo went to Capulet’s house to meet Juliet secretly. They were attracted to each other so as to think that they might throw away their family names. Next day, they held a wedding ceremony with a monk. The monk always helps Romeo and Juliet. Romeo went to the Verona beach to tell Mercutio, his best friend, about the special news. Then, Mercutio began a fight with Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin. Romeo stopped them, but the fight escalated. Mercutio is hurt with a glass which Tybalt had in his hand, and he died from a serious wound at last. Tybalt ran away, but Romeo was angry and shoots Tybalt dead with a gun. Because of this, Romeo was expelled from Verona, and he had to be separated from Juliet. Juliet was to be married off to Paris immediately afterwards. Because Juliet hated it by all means, she gets some medicine from a monk. On the marriage day, she suffered from a state of apparent death from the medicine. The monk wrote a letter to tell Romeo about the plan. But unluckily, Romeo wasn’t able to read the letter and he didn’t know the fact. A friend of Romeo convinced him that Juliet died and tells the wrong information to Romeo. Romeo heard that Juliet died and went to the place where Juliet was laid in state, after he obtained poison to commit suicide. He took poison next to Juliet who had not yet revived. Then, Juliet woke from medicine. Because she did not think that he was dead, she smiled and touched him. Because the poison was already in Romeo’s body, he dies in front of Juliet. She was full of sadness. So, she shot herself with Romeo’s gun. The police were angry that someone lost their life because of the fight between the Montagues and Capulets. Finally the police said to the parents of Romeo and Juliet that the cause of their death was the hatred of both families and it had produced this result.

My impression: I thought that I was watching the wrong movie at first because, the movie starts that a scene that has many building and men who wear Hawaiian shirts. I was surprised that the characters speak English differently from today’s English and it took some getting used to hearing it in this movie. This movie was a very sad story. Romeo and Juliet didn’t have many times together after they met. I think they are trapped in a quirk of fate.(632words)