It’s been the ultimate love story for more than four hundred years. The tragic tale of forbidden love has enchanted countless theater audiences and when film was invented, it made it to the big screen in several versions too. If you want to relive this beautiful tale, you can do it with the Romeo and Juliet new movie coming out in 2013.
William Shakespeare’s play was first published in 1597. It was one of his earlier works, yet it has been one of the most enduring. He based it on an Italian story from earlier in the sixteenth century and kept the setting in Italy.
The play tells the tale of two families in Verona, a city in northern Italy. The Montagues and Capulets have been adversaries for years. One night Romeo, a Montague, sneaks into a ball held by the Capulets. There he meets Juliet. It is love at first sight for both. Knowing that their families will never approve of their union, they secretly go to a priest the next day and get married.
Meanwhile Juliet’s cousin Tybalt is outraged at the way Romeo sneaked into the ball and challenges him to a duel. Romeo’s friend Mercutio fights on his behalf and is killed. The grief-stricken hero then kills Tybalt, which leads to him being exiled from Verona.
The Capulet family decides to marry Juliet off to someone else, oblivious of the fact that she’s already married a Montague. Desperate to escape this fate, she asks the priest to help her. He provides her with a drug that will put her into a deep sleep, simulating death for a while. A message is sent to the hero but doesn’t reach him. The hero hears that his wife has ‘died’ and he travels to the crypt where her body is being kept. There he kills himself by drinking poison. His bride wakes up and finds him dead, so she grabs his dagger and kills herself too.
There have been several film versions of the play. The story was also the inspiration for musicals like ‘West Side Story’ and many other films have referred to it in some way in their plot, including the award-winning ‘Shakespeare in Love’. The latest version, to be released in 2013, is directed by the Italian director Carlo Carlei.
Hailee Steinfeld plays the female lead. She is best known for her work in ‘True Grit’, for which she received many accolades. The male lead is played by Douglas Booth, a British actor who is also famous as model. They have big shoes to fill. The last notable film telling this story was the Baz Luhrman version, which starred Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Younger audiences will be drawn to the Romeo and Juliet new movie for Ed Westwick of ‘Gossip Girl’ fame. He plays Tybault. Stellan Skarsgard, Natascha McElhone and Lesley Manville are some of the other big names in the cast. Release is set for early February 2013, making this the perfect occasion for a Valentine’s Day date.
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