ROMEO AND JULIET - THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIMES

Since the invention of the motion picture in 1894, Romeo and Juliet has been one of the most popular stories in films. Numerous movies have been based on Shakespeare’s famous love story, the earliest dating back to 1900. Many directors have taken this famous play and made it into a film, trying to keep to the themes of the original story.

One of them is Baz Luhrmann. His version of Romeo and Juliet, produced in 1996, has been described as an original, post-modern version of Shakespeare’s tragic love story.

With this extremely successful film, Luhrmann has managed to update the story - by combining modern-day settings and characters with almost the original language. The story is set in Miami. The changes in the language, together with dramatic gun fights and passionate love scenes, make the story more accessible to modern audiences.

In Luhrmann’s version of the film, the main characters, Romeo (Leonardo di Caprio) and Juliet (Clare Danes), are Miami teenagers of the nineties. Even though the setting of the film is very unconventional, it contains all the themes of the original version, because it does not change the story at all.

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If graffiti is the art of today’s streetwise teenagers, then skateboarding is their sport. Skateboarding has never been more popular. There are an estimated 200,000 skaters in the UK. Most cities and towns have official skate parks. Many are provided by the local council and these are often free. Others are owned by private companies and skaters usually have to pay to use the facilities. Some of these parks, such as the Epic Skate Park in Birmingham and Bones Skate Park in Manchester, are famous throughout the skating world.

Skating has also become big business and there are many companies selling skateboards, skating accessories and fashion items.

Part of the rise of the popularity of skating is because of its inclusion in the extreme sport scene and competitions like the X-games and the urban games offer large money prizes for the winners. Competitors in the events can become very famous in the skating world. Professional skaters like Raphael Brunis from France and Danny Cerezini from Brazil are often sponsored by companies to use their products.

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