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Why should we or should we not consider Baz Luhrmann’s film Romeo and Juliet “modern”?

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is modern

1) modern transport/technologies

-tvs, helicopters, cars (in verona it was common to have a horse and carriage)

2) the way certain people dressed

-frair lawrence (dressed in casual clothing and not of aa pope)

3) equipment

-use of guns and not swords/rapier (rapier was the most common to use in the elizabethan/shakespearean era)

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