The families, finding the bodies, are finally shamed into ending their feud. The film ends with a TV news report closing the story, and a final shot of Romeo and Juliet’s faces fading in the clouds.
The 1996 film , directed by Baz Luhrmann, is a hyper-stylized "Post-Modern" adaptation that sets William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy in the fictional contemporary suburb of Verona Beach . While the visual setting is modern—swapping swords for handguns (branded "Sword" and "Dagger") and horses for muscle cars—the film famously retains Shakespeare's original Early Modern English dialogue. Key Educational & Informative Resources romeo and juliet 1996 google drive