Romeo and Juliet review.

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Romeo and Juliet review.

Starring: Clare Danes

Leonardo Di Caprio

Director: Baz Luhrmann

The Plot: Thunder crashing in, lightning flashing wildly, rain pouring, a storm brewing, much like the tension of this crucial yet tragic scene. The perfect opening. Set on the beach, where laughing and joking Mercutio and his friends wait for Romeo. Typical of Mercutio and well portrayed in the movie with him watching the young girls in bikinis. Tybalt comes storming down, causing a real storm to begin.

Verbal abuse is thrown and, although you can see as ever Mercutio is trying to make a joke of it all, he and Tybalt are starting to feel more and more anger for each other, shown by the cameras switching back and forth from them quickly.

By the time Romeo has arrived they are already engrossed in a blazing row and darkness falls as Mercutio gets more furious and as he sees Romeo being beaten to a pulp, he snaps, much like he has before when they are planning to go to the Capulet party and this shows the real feelings and insecurity of Mercutio which he has so often tried