For Year 11 students wanting a version to help with their GCSE, this is the one I would choose every time.īy contrast, this Di Caprio version is a kind of West Side Story (which does at least have the bonus of Bernstein's music) with the original Shakespeare text. The acting is high quality, and the soundtrack is good. If we take a glance first at the celebrated Zeffirelli film of 1968 (Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting), all the important dialogue is retained, and wherever the action was filmed, it did look passably like Verona, which is where it is supposed to be. I do realise that this play is a matter of interpretation, for the simple reason that no two performances can be identical.
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The one plus point I can find is that it does stick to the original text, on the whole, and the editing down to two hours of what is a three hour play works reasonably well. The younger generation seems to approve, broadly-speaking, but how far this is down to the Shakespeare make-over and how far down to dishy Di Caprio (for the girls) or Claire Danes (for the lads) I cannot say.
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