Romeo and Juliet

The play Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays of all time. There are lots of movies based on the play and book. One movie based off the book is West Side Story. In West Side Story a young man named Tony falls in love with a Latino girl named Maria. The young couple get intimate with their relationship, but their family and friends strongly disapprove. Another updated version is "Romeo and Giulietta". In this updated version Romeo meets Juliet at the Capulet Mansion costume party. Later that night Romeo sneaks back to the mansion to see her. They have s*x later and both die in the Capulet tomb.

In the 1996 updated movie of Romeo and Juliet Romeo two rival families (Montague's & Capulet's) have years of hate down the line. At a party thrown by the caplets the 2 children meet for the first time and fall quickly in love. They want to get married in secret very quickly, but they both end up getting killed in the Capulet tomb. This movie relates a lot to the play because the scenes in the movie did almost exactly what was written in the play. I liked the movie better because I was able to understand it because the plot was quite better and less confusing than the book. The scene when Romeo was at the party and met Juliet for the first time gave me a better idea what happened at the party.

West Side Story is musical updated version of Romeo and Juliet. In west side story a young America man named Tony falls deeply in love with a young Latino girl named Maria. But Tony's friends disapprove. They told him that he shouldn't go out with "her kind". Maria's friends and her brother especially don't want her to go out with an "American" man. So one night Tony decides to fight Marias brother Bernardo. When Tony's gang shows up a fight breaks out and Bernardo and someone else get killed. After Maria hears the news about her brother she breaks down, just then Tony comes to the window telling Maria they should get married in secret and run away. She accepts. He tells her to meet him in the park. Maria is waiting in the park just then Tony shows up and gets shot. I thought that the way the movie ended was kind of lame. In the movie and the book they both end up dying. In west side story only Tony ends up dying. I thought it was nothing like the book.