First of all, Baz Lurhmann version of Romeo and Juliet is more moderlized than the original one. In especial stage property has changed a lot in this film , for example instead of using sword to fight, people use guns to fight. Moreover,costumes are more colorful,which is very close to nowdays fashion. Director wanted to show the differences between two famails,so he decided to use two types of cloth. For Romeo famaily, their clothes are more like a style of Hawii. And Juliet’s famaily has a style of mafia, most of them wear suits. However,the difference in original play is not very visiable,it only tells they are enmey.

Second, Except the apperence, events in film happened in a tight time,which means it happened really fast. In the last two act, it only takes 20 minutes to tell (From Juliet gets a fake posion to they both died). I also find out in this film, it uses many skills that is fast scene, which just basiclly tells what happened, for example when Juliet mom tried to persuade Juliet to marry with Paris, it is going really quick. In my opinion,there are two reasons why director did that. First,it could be his own bias, he thought that is not important so he did not want to put more works there. Second, his main purpose is expressing his idea of Romeo and Juliet, to some extent,he doesn’t like the ending is sad, so he skiped some plots, he hopes he can show a ending that is not very tragic.

In addition, this film has another feeling when I am watching. Like what I said in previous, director changed some plots because he would like to add some comic stuffs in it. However, he brings fully sadness to audiences. In the scene that Romeo drinks the posion and at the same time Juliet wakes up. I feel extremely shame and pity for them.