William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly one of the world's greatest ever written plays of all time. It has a great mix of romance, tragedy and humour which fits perfectly within the basis of the story. Thanks to the development of technology and cinematography, there have been as many film variations of Romeo and Juliet as much as there have been of the Bible. Yet much like the Bible, Romeo and Juliet has many variations of the way the story is told. Some people believe that many of the re-told Romeo and Juliet films out there are a total joke and an insult towards William Shakespeare's work. However among the film community, there are two film versions of Romeo and Juliet which are a cut above the rest which are the 1968 Franco Zeffirelli and the 1996 Baz Luhrmann adaptations of Romeo and Juliet.

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