Romeo and Juliet in film continued..

There have however been more modern interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, as film makers have felt that the play could be updated in order to attract a wider audience and to make Shakespeare 'cool' to young people, who perhaps are not attracted to Shakespeare's plays, but could be attracted to a film version of one. The most famous modern interpretation is the 1996 Baz Luhrmann's version, which sees horses swapped for cars, swords swapped for guns and instead of rival patriachal families, it features rival business companies. This film did very well, managing to get $147,554,999 at the box office. Thus proving that Shakespeare can be successfully modernized. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/
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