BOOK VS FILM

DIFFERENCES

In the book                                   In the film

The story takes place in Verona, Italy.	The location is Verona Beach, Florida, in the United States.
The story takes place when it was written in the late 1500's.	It is the 1990's.
Fighting between the Montagues and the Capulets involves swords and fencing.	They use hand guns.
This doesn't happen.	Romeo takes Ecstasy before going to the party at the Capulet house.
The Capulets and the Montagues are warring families in Italy. Romeo goes to the Capulet crypt to find Juliet's body and encounters Paris there. Romeo kills him. Romeo kills Paris at the Capulet tomb. In the book romeo cant sneak Into juliets home because she has sucurity. However, back in Shakespeare times the costuming he may have intended would have been Elizabethan style. Romeo finds Juliet in the crypt and believing that she is dead, drinks poison and dies. Juliet wakes up after he has died.	The two are family run corporations that are against each other. Romeo doesn't encounter anyone at the crypt and Paris is not killed. This does not happen. Romeo sneaks everyday at night time Lurmann’s costumes are highly modernized. The opening scene finds the Montague boys wearing Hawaiian shirts and having unnaturally colored hair, while the Capulet’s have leather jackets and metal boots. Juliet wakes up after Romeo has taken the poison but before he has died. They share a last kiss.