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Romeo & Juliet (1968 film)
Directed by
Franco Zeffirrelli
Produced by
John Brabourne
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Associate Produced by
Richard Goodwin
Screenplay by
Franco Brusati
Masolino D'Amico
Franco Zeffirrelli
Written by
William Shakespeare
Based on
William Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet'
Starring
Leonard Whiting
Olivia Hussey
John McEnery
Milo O'Shea
Pat Heywood
Bruce Robinson
Michael York
Narrated by
Sir Laurence Olivier (uncredited)
Cinematography
Pasqualino De Santis
Studio
Cinecitta Studios (Rome), and on location throughout Italy
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Country
United Kingdom
Italy
Rating
G, later changed to M/GP/PG (USA)
Romeo and Juliet is the 1968 film version of the timeless romantic tragedy play by William Shakespeare.
Directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, the film stars Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia Hussey as Juliet. Laurence Olivier spoke the film's prologue and epilogue and dubs the voice of the actor Antonio Pierfederici, who played Old Montague, but was not credited on-screen. The film also features Michael York, Milo O'Shea, John McEnery, Bruce Robinson, and Robert Stephens.
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Like many victims of the American education system, I had a dislike for Shakespeare years before I got my hands on anything he had written. His name was a password to be profaned by 12-year-olds whose voices had started to change and who therefore had to act tough and cynical and, especially at 12, anti-intellectual.
But part of the problem came later, in the classroom, where we inched through “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth” at a velocity of ten lines an hour. It was impossible to read Shakespeare as slowly as we did and remember anything from the first three acts by the time we got to the murders. “Who’s this Brutus guy?” we whispered. What was needed as an introduction was an approach that caught the spirit and life of Shakespeare and didn’t get bogged down prematurely in the language.
With this in mind, I believe Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” is the most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made. Not because it is greater drama than Olivier’s “Henry V,” because it is not. Nor is it greater cinema than Welles’ “Falstaff.” But it is greater Shakespeare than either because it has the passion, the sweat, the violence, the poetry, the love and the tragedy in the most immed