York took it down a note or two and played him like a bully. You don't get more passionate than Basil Rathbone did in the Howard-Shearer version.
This film also gave a first big break for Michael York as Tybalt, a part that requires a lot of passion. And being British they're trained in the classics at an early age. What Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey didn't have in experience they make up for in charisma. You have to have extraordinarily good actors and charismatic at that for the big screen. As good as MGM's version back in the studio system days with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, they now look arcane when viewing it today, taking nothing away from them as players. When Franco Zeffirelli got around to doing it as such it put all previous versions to shame. It took about five centuries for Shakespeare's signature play about young love to be filmed with teen lovers as Shakespeare wrote it. Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10 Juveniles playing juveniles Are Romeo and Juliet destined to be together?-Nick Riganas But now, before the grim machinations of fate, man stands powerless. Once, the star-crossed lovers exchanged vows of everlasting devotion despite their perilous plight. And as youth's insolence arms charming young Romeo Montague with dauntless courage to come uninvited to the Capulets' scintillating masked ball, a brief but thrilling encounter with delicate dark-haired Juliet Capulet paves the way for ardent passions and cruel romantic tragedy.
A venomous blood feud divides the powerful clans of the Montagues and the Capulets in the medieval city of Verona, unfolding William Shakespeare's eternal story of teenage love.
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