{"id":99522,"date":"2026-11-14T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99522"},"modified":"2026-11-14T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T11:38:23","slug":"how-baz-luhrmanns-ultra-stylised-romeo-juliet-film-made-shakespeare-cool-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=99522","title":{"rendered":"How Baz Luhrmann\u2019s ultra-stylised Romeo + Juliet film made Shakespeare cool 30 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/11\/3da37e62-8ad4-4c08-b82f-64cd7ebfc558_5fa01d8d.jpg?itok=s3pGfvRI&amp;v=1794382105\" \/><br \/>William Shakespeare\u2019s star-crossed romance Romeo and Juliet has been adapted for the screen innumerable times, perhaps most famously by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. While every version reflects the era of its creation, none speaks quite as loudly as Baz Luhrmann\u2019s ultra-stylised, fiercely 1990s take, which turns 30 this month.<br \/>\nThe second \u2013 and best \u2013 of Luhrmann\u2019s much-loved \u201cRed Curtain\u201d trilogy, which includes 1992\u2019s Strictly Ballroom and 2001\u2019s Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet (1996) is blessed&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3374016\/how-baz-luhrmanns-ultra-stylised-romeo-juliet-film-made-shakespeare-cool-30-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shakespeare\u2019s star-crossed romance Romeo and Juliet has been adapted for the screen innumerable times, perhaps most famously by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. While every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32672,1622,1900,32675,32673,9282,2724,32674,59],"class_list":["post-99522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-baz","tag-cool","tag-film","tag-juliet","tag-luhrmanns","tag-romeo","tag-shakespeare","tag-ultrastylised","tag-years","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}