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Romeo and Juliet - The Movie         The new release of Romeo and Juliet  is fun, fast and exciting to watch. It is a slick cinematic rendition of Shakespeares work brought to the screen for modern movie-goers.  There is something for everyone in this movie.  A timeless story, a dynamic cast, a hip soundtrack, large sets and costumes and plenty of action.  From the beginning the audience is told, buckle up, this Romeo and Juliet  ride is waiver to be like no other Shakespeare youve ever ridden.  This movie supports the notion that the stage is an actors medium and the cinema is the directors.  Romeo and Juliet  is a feast for the eyes and does a great job of engaging the audience with the story at all times through various cinematic techniques and tricks which make understanding Shakespeare fun, interesting, fresh and easy.        Visually dynamic, and edited with a sense of urgency, most movi e-goers will get caught up in the story and forget that they are listening to the Bard.  It is Shakespeares words and text, however, the sights and sounds are as clearly, peradventure overshadowing, telling the same parallel story.  One could say that there are visually emotional subtitles throughout the movie directing the audience to understand and put away in the most famous love story in an entirely new way.  One can argue that this version of Romeo and Juliet  would be understood eventide without spoken words.  The camera-work tells the story as clearly as the text.  There are very few moments in this movie when the camera stops moving.  Like Oliver Stones immanent Born Killers  the editing is fierce and in your face.  There is little time to think as the perpetual images flash across the screen.  And it works.  You become entranced and cannot time lag to see what happens next even if you are already familiar with the s tory.  It feels new.         Like many contemporary Shakespeare productions, the text has been slightly edited but this does nothing to hack the story.  The dialogue, for the most part, is not delivered by master thespians, rather, we hear contemporary film actors delivering the Bards words as though this were present day English in crude York or Los Angeles.