Over time, personal perspectives have heavily influenced films that are based on literature. The 1996 adaptation of Romeo & Juliet is a prime example of this. The contrasts between the original Shakespeare play and the film are clearly evident in regards to the visual perspectives and the time frame the film takes on. Amidst all these differences, the film still seems to maintain some of the factors that made the Shakespeare play so attractive to the audience.

The change to the time frame of the plot is one of the easier comparisons since it is apparent that the parts of the plot have been rearranged. An example of

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