The film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet differs from the play in several key ways: the narrator is a TV instead of an objective narrator, the prince of Verona is now the police boss, and while the family names are the same they are no longer medieval but modern. Additionally, swords are replaced with guns, the family feud starts at a gas station instead of the streets, Mantua represents a desert instead of a city, Juliet kills herself with a gun instead of a dagger, and the police explain the deaths instead of Friar Laurence.
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1. Differences between the film and the play. In the film the narrator is the TV but the play is the objective narrator. In the film director also has changed the prince of Verona because now it is the boss police. Another point observation is that the families aren't medieval but they names are still same.
2. One more observation is that in the film the swords are changed in the guns.
3. Also in the film the fight with the friends of the two families, begins in the gas station.
5. When Juliet is sleep in the cathedral too, Romeo doesn't find Paris and so he doesn't kill him.
6. Another point observation is that Juliet doesn't kill him with a dagger, he kill her self with a gun.
7. Finally when the families find the dead bodies of there children, there isn't the gave us a lecture the Friar Laurence but the police explained because his sons are dead