Romeo and Juliet Director Franco Dzefirelli, Italy/United Kingdom, 1968. In the roles of Leonard Whiteing, Olivia Hassie, John McKinery, Michael York, and others.
In fact, Romeo and Juliet became in many ways a revolutionary play: Shakespeare used such techniques as the switch between the tragic and the Comical, brightened his secondary heroes, and carefully designed numerous sidelines. In addition, different heroes have been given different forms of poetry that change as they develop: for example, during the play, the sonnet form in Romeo’s mouth becomes more sophisticated.
The plot is known to all, it is set out in the prologue: Two equally respected families in Verona, where we are met, are fighting in conflict and do not want to bleed out. A friend loves a leader’s children, but their fate is plotted, and their destruction at the tomb door puts an end to an irreconcilable division. (translation of Boris Pasternak)
The only way to add to this is that, with a $850,000 budget, the painting’s worldwide revenue was $38.9 million. The film was nominated for «Oskar» in four nominations and won two of them, as well as 14 prizes and awards.
