William Shakespeare is considered the best playwright of all time. One of Shakespeare's most famous plays is "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet". Nearly 400 years later, a director named Baz Luhrmann recreated the play "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" into a modernized version. Despite the fact that the director of the film version of "Romeo and Juliet" and Shakespeare used the same script, there were some similarities and differences between them. Although both the …showed first 75 words of 850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 850 total…and Juliet, it supports the original characters, plot, and themes of the original play. The purpose of this movie was to capture present-day viewer. With all of the changes that the directors have made, the story still remains passionate and romantic. No one knows what the original version of Romeo and Juliet was really like. All that is for sure is that no one will ever recreate what Shakespeare has done in his astonishing play.