I enjoyed Baz Luhrmann's version of Romeo and Juliet so much. The movie was so touching and got into great detail about love. I haven't done much study of Shakespeare before this, but I had a lot of background information on Romeo and Juliet. I hadn't been very interested and I thought it was really boring. When I actually started to study Shakespeare I started understanding the language and his ideas.
I think people are very stereotypical about love life. To a lot of people love comes to their minds as pink hearts, kisses, hugs and just as plain perfect. But that's not what love really is. Shakespeare made it so clear that love is fate and fate is real life. Nobody thinks as love as fights, and different types of love. Shakespeare showed the connection between Paris and Juliet and Romeo and Rosaline. He showed that love can be complicated and people can move on. He showed that it's possible for two people in love, to die. He showed that parents can get violent and be prepared to beg for their girl to be with the man they want her to be with. Love can be so hurtful, but no one wants to believe it.
Talking about stereotypes, I think people are stereotypical about Romeo and Juliet as well. In a lot of movies I've seen, the children usually know Romeo and Juliet as standing on a balcony with their hands reaching toward each other. They usually know more about Romeo and Juliet's love life more than they know anything about the fight scene between the Capulet's and the Montague's. There is so much to know about the history of Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet and it's so important. Shakespeare's messages convey so much that I think it's very confusing why there are so many stereotypes.
