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The intertitles and news headlines emphasise the violent phrases ‘new mutiny’ and the spilling of ‘civil blood’.

The recurring images of a statue of Christ signal a moral tale of love, violence and death. Potent images of office towers bearing the families’ names represent their economic dominance and their rivalry.

The visual signs, images and text used in this clip support Shakespeare’s language to convey the ‘ancient grudge’ between the Montagues and Capulets.

The movie trailer supports the foreshadowing in the prologue by showing future images from the film. In this adaptation, a television newsreader and the narrator of a movie-trailer-style sequence replace the chorus. These kinds of prologues are often in the form of a sonnet (a rhyming poem of 14 lines) and are read by a chorus or narrator.

The prologue of Romeo + Juliet draws the audience into the world of the story by outlining the setting, the characters and the plot to come.Phrases from the prologue appear onscreen as written text as they are spoken, helping the viewer to understand Shakespeare’s language. The cinematography, rapidly edited montage sequence and modern soundtrack produce the cinematic feel of a music video or movie trailer. While retaining Shakespeare’s original text, Luhrmann appeals to a young audience by setting his film version of Romeo + Juliet in a contemporary city, with corporate warring families as the protagonists.The action builds in a dramatically edited montage that includes images of violence and grief, intertitles and an operatic score that reaches a crescendo with the title. A television news broadcaster, reading Shakespeare’s original text, foretells the events that will lead to the tragic deaths of the young lovers. Luhrmann uses the prologue to locate the action in the contemporary fictional city of Verona Beach, USA, and to introduce the feuding families – the Montagues and Capulets. This clip shows the prologue to Romeo + Juliet, director Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s play.