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WRITE A REVIEW OF BAZ LUHRMAN'S ROMEO AND JULIET AIMED AT TEACHER'S AND SPECIFICALLY COMMENTING ON ITS VALUE AS ANADAPTION OF THE PLAY.

Baz Luhrmann releases his new 20th century adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" which includes drugs, sex and cross-dressing, unlike anything you will have experienced in other productions than it was eighteen years ago. This new adaptation with modernization like new sporty cars, drugs, etc, etc which all youngsters are familiar with and aware of will certainly catch their eye. Its definitely not another boring Romeo And Juliet love story. Modernization like the actors in the film taking drugs was not used in its last production of Romeo And Juliet eighteen years ago. This was used to catch the eye of the teenagers. Neither were war and gang artilleries like a 54 calibre and shot guns were not used either. It's definitely something someone would not want to miss.

The first thing that strikes you is Baz Luhrmann's original use of setting. Compared to the old settings used in the last production, Luhrmann has used a modern type of setting to do its scenes. This made it look different from the cliché scenes which everyone was