Similarities In both versions some scenes were certainly excluded to fit the frame

Similarities- In both versions some scenes were certainly excluded to fit the frame of the films.- Part of the dialogues were modified for the modern audience.- Main actors were really promising and had a huge impact on the film’s success.- They mutually captured the star-crossed lovers’ tragic love story and maintained the meaning of the original play.- In none of them Paris was slayed by Romeo, beside that both versions do not show Romeo’s mother death, probably to lay emphasis on the death of the young lovers.DifferencesThe leading characters in the 1996 version are older, more experienced. Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo) at the time was 21 and Claire Danes (Juliet) was 16 in comparison with 17-year-old Leonard Whiting (Romeo) and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey (Juliet).In the Zeffirelli’s version characters use British- English, meanwhile in the Luhrmann’s one characters speak American – English. Luhrmann explained “When Shakespeare wrote these plays