Haven’t seen it.

How could he give up all the spoilers 370 years earlier? Maybe . . . time travel?

Willie used plots and whole story lines from other people. Lear, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, etc., etc. And it was obvious to me that he did the same thing here. Even the language he used is Zeffirelli’s.

Shameless!

One of these days...

Ironically, I've seen just about every film version of Hamlet multiple times.

i've watched multiple versions of Hamlet but never Romeo and Juliet. I read the play though.

Honestly, it’s hard to make Shakespeare anything but magnificent.

The 60s. When they didn't make movies from comic books.

I loved and still do!

(OMG Leonard Whiting was so gorgeous!!!!)

Just kidding. Kinda. I was 14, she was gorgeous, there was nudity(!!!), however brief, and the SCHOOL took my eighth grade class to see it. Proof there is a God.

Made the film more relevant to high school students.

…when you’re just about the same age as the principal characters as portrayed in the film, and just going through puberty, first relationships or at least first crushes, and so on. It really hit with a pretty heavy emotional blow.

There was an episode of The Wonder Years where Kevin and Paul were going to the movies on a Saturday afternoon, while complaining that the only thing showing in their suburb was some love story by Shakespeare, of all people – then you see them coming out of the theater, barely holding back tears. I’m betting anyone who was that age at that specific time must have gotten a good laugh from that episode, as it was so utterly accurate. (In case you’re wondering, no, nothing ever happened with the girl I had the intense crush on at the time, neither then nor ever. )

Explanation points because: "the whole 7th grade class", "our Catholic nuns", "in the theater", "brief nudity" - everything. I loved it and it was a very memorable experience, especially since my family was poor, and outings like this was very rare.

I had a crush on Leonard Whiting.❤️

I watched it at the Drive In and had the soundtrack album
I was 9 lol

The local theaters wouldn't show it, and we got lectured about it's evils in our High School. (which just made all the kids want to see it)

after we read it. Late 70s. I was too young to be aware of it when it came out. Olivia Hussey wrote a memoir that came out in 2018. Very interesting.

When I showed the film (VCR) I had forgotten that you can see Romeo's naked ass and I got up so fast from my desk and spun the entire TV cart around in the nick of time. Great film in every way.

The looks on the faces of those audience members, having just witnessed the very first performance of "Romeo and Juliet."

Good stuff...

The English Department just threw in the towel on trying to get us to read Shakespeare and just put us on busses and took us to a theater to see the movie.

who said it was the funniest movie he'd ever seen. Wrong. It was this R & J instead and I blubbered so much he had to grab a big wad of napkins from the concession stand before I could leave my seat.

For all of us teens.

it to us.

While I remember a few sniffles from the young women in the class, I’m afraid that all we hormonal boys took away from it was Olivia Hussey topless.