Romeo's best friend (and I wish I could spell his name but I'd rather not butcher it) dresses up as a women. Juliet wears angel wings and Romeo wears a knight outfit. One great part I absolutely love is the party. In either case each family wears a certain kind of clothing that makes it easy to tell who's who. The Capulets dress more like mobsters or thugs even though both sides could be viewed as thugs in some sort or another. The Montegues always wear a Hawaiian style shirt. If you look at the guns you'll notice that some say sword, some say rapier, and I believe some say dagger. The symbolism is also used very well throughout the movie. The movie follows the original script very accurately. Danes does a great job playing the flirty Juliet. Soon after that we are introduced to Juliet who is played by the beautiful Claire Danes, someone I haven't seen in too many movies. Leo does a great job as Romeo, but that's because Leo is a good actor in this film. The Prince forewarns them that if they ever disturb the peace again their 'lives will pay the forfeit of the peace.' We are then introduced to the character Romeo who is played by Leonardo DeCaprio.
The movie kicks off with a street brawl between the Montegues and Capulets. This one however, kept my attention and seemed to do a great job with modernizing the whole quarreling families thing. I'm a sucker for William Shakespeare even though I like it done better in the theatre.
