Romeo and Juliet on screen 1960 "Romeo, Juliet a Tma". As a result of this ubiquity, any film about young love and its challenges will court comparison with "Romeo and Juliet", as "Roseanna McCoy" did in 1949, and two James Dean films – "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause" – did in the 1950s. In 1960, Peter Ustinov's stage parody of "Romeo and Juliet", "Romanoff and Juliet" was filmed – dramatising true love interfering with the cold-war superpowers' attempts to control the fictional state of Concordia. In 1980 an episode of the anime Astro Boy was based on the Romeo and Juliet story.
Romeo and Juliet The religious metaphors of "shrine", "pilgrim", and "saint" were fashionable in the poetry of the time and more likely to be understood as romantic rather than blasphemous, as the concept of sainthood was associated with the Catholicism of an earlier age. Later in the play, Shakespeare removes the more daring allusions to Christ's resurrection in the tomb he found in his source work: Brooke's "Romeus and Juliet". In the later balcony scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy, but in Brooke's version of the story, her declaration is done alone. By bringing Romeo into the scene to eavesdrop, Shakespeare breaks