Romeo and Juliet on screen choreography by Jerome Robbins. Widely admired, and the winner of ten Oscars, the 1961 film of the show – set among New York gangs – does not aim for a realistic portrayal of New York gang culture: in the opening sequence the Jets and the Sharks trade dance-steps instead of blows. The Jets are a gang of white youths, equivalent to Shakespeare's Montagues; the Sharks, equivalent to the Capulets, are Puerto Rican. Unlike Shakespeare who included relationships between his young lovers and the older generation (the parents, and parent-substitutes such as the Nurse and Friar Laurence) "West Side Story" keeps
Indian Romeo and Juliet Indian Romeo and Juliet Indian Romeo and Juliet is a 1912 American drama film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring Florence Turner and Wallace Reid. The story is an adaption of "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare set in Mohawk and Huron tribes. A critic for "Moving Picture World" wrote, "It will be a good feature picture although the story is not very vital. The photographs are beautiful." A critic for "The Cinema" described it as "quite out of the ordinary, considering that it has strong romantic and poetic tendencies. It is an attempt to translate poetry into cinematography. Both