Written by Leigh Kolb. The opening scene of Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet is an intense display of masculinity. While in the original text the Capulet and Montague men draw swords and taunt one another, Luhrmann’s rivals pull guns, rev car engines, smoke, shoot, and light fire to gasoline. Luhrmann’s 1996 film takes Shakespeare’s … Continue reading The Tragedy of Masculinity in ‘Romeo + Juliet’