MOULIN ROUGE!

GENRE:  Music/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  2001
CAST:  Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo
DIRECTOR:  Baz Luhrmann
WRITER:  Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

PLOT:  A romantic poet falls for a beautiful but dying performer.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Rome + Juliet, Across the Universe, Big Fish

SCORE:

ROMEO + JULIET

GENRE:  Remake/ Drama/ Romance
MADE:  1996
CAST:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Sorvino
DIRECTOR:  Baz Luhrmann
WRITER:  William Shakespeare, Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann

PLOT:  A modern day version of "Romeo And Juliet" with original script.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Shakespeare In Love, Titus, Gladiator

ACTING:

NOTES:  Remember how in high-school they would make you read Shakespeare's "Romeo And Juliet" and you were, quite frankly, a little bored?  Baz Lurhmann's modern day take on this play jazzes things up with gun fights instead of sword fights, he opts to keep the original script word for word but an urban setting with hot young actors and a bangin' soundtrack makes a big difference.