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* [[Car Fu]]: Romeo vs. Tybalt.
* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Montagues wear Hawaiian shirts while Capulets mostly wear summer suits and bulletproof vests bejazzled with Catholic iconography.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Originally the 14 year old [[Natalie Portman]] was cast as Juliet, but the director thought that the much older [[Leonardo
* [[Death Wail]]: Juliet forgoes her final speech for one of these.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Romeo and Juliet die in the same positions they were in just after they had sex a couple of nights before.
* [[Elevator Going Down]]: During the ball scene.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Water as the overarching motif (the first shot of Juliet is of her face underwater, the lovers meets across an aquarium, the balcony scene is reset in a swimming pool, {{spoiler|Tybalt}} dies after toppling into a fountain, etc), along with ubiquitous Catholic symbols. And even the director is not quite sure what all of it is actually supposed to mean.
* [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]: '''JUST''' [[Driven to Suicide|as Romeo is preparing to drink the poison!]]
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* [[Oh Crap]]: Romeo, in a dramatic moment that doesn't occur in the original play.
* [[Phony Newscast]]: The prologue is reinterpreted this way.
* [[A Plague
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Juliet's suicide.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The Capulets and Montegues are differentiated this way, with the Capulets being angry and sharply dressed, while the Montegues are more clownish and wear casual Hawaiian shirts.
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** "A plague, ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES!" ( {{spoiler|Mercutio}}, right before his death)
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Guess who.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: For [[Leonardo
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Most of the characters use guns, but Tybalt in particular gives this impression.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The setting is twenty minutes into the future of the late 1990s.
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* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Benvolio primarily, but most of the Montague boys can't seem to button their shirts.
* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: Both Juliet (wearing a white dress no less) and Romeo fall into her pool in the balcony scene. Romeo later gets drenched by rain after leaving Juliet's room.
* [[What Happened to
* [[Woman in White]]: Juliet until after losing her virginity. She also dies wearing a white dress as well, and when they first meet, she is wearing a white angel costume.
* [[World of Ham]]: The film is basically Shakespeare reimagined in an overwrought 90s style.
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