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Romeo and Juliet movie

Act 1, Scene 1

– The play is sets in Verona in Italy

– Two Capulet servants sees a Montague and were laughing at the montage ( the montage and Capulet were enemies)

– The Capulets and Montague were fighting in the streets

-They stopped fighting till the Prince arrived. He told them to stop fighting and threatened to banish them if they didn’t.

– Romeo’s parents were finding Romeo

– Romeo’s cousin, Tybalt told them Romeo was always walking by the trees. Tybalt also told his parents that he would find out what was going on

– Tybalt saw Romeo holding a flower in his hand, and he knew that he was in love with a girl.

Act 1 Scene 2

– Juliet’s dad and Paris were talking in the Capulet’s home

– Paris is asking Juliet’s dad permission if he could take his daughter as his wife and try to convince him

– Juliet’s dad thinks about it and says Juliet is too young and he hasn’t even seen her 14th birthday yet. Instead, he tells Paris to join a ball.

– Juliet’s dad invited a lot of guest to the ball

Act 1 scene 3

– Juliet’s mother wants to talk to Juliet about something serious

– While she talks, Juliet’s nurse ( who took care of her) keeps interrupting the talk and talks about how cute Juliet was when she was young.

– Juliet’s mother finally tells the nurse to be quiet and tells Juliet to think about marrying Paris.

– Her mother even says that she isn’t too young to marry

– The guest arrives and the conversation stops

Act 1 scene 4

– Romeo, Mercutio, (Romeo’s best friend) and his other friends were walking to the ball.

– Romeo doesn’t want to go because he is worry someone will die tonight. ( meaning him)

– Mercutio then teases Romeo by talking about ” Queen Mab”

– At the end Romeo decides to go to the ball

Act 1 scene 5

– Romeo goes to the ball

– The dance starts and from all the girls, Juliet stands out the most to him. He even says she has true beauty.

– Tybalt sees Romeo and tells Romeo’s dad that Romeo is a Montague and Romeo is in the party.

– Romeo’s dad says it’s fine and don’t destroy the party.

– Romeo joins in in the middle of the dance and dances with Juliet

– At the end of the party, they both found out that they were enemies

Act 2 scene 1

– On the way home, Romeo runs away from his friends

– He climbs up a fence and sees Juliet’s window

Act 2 Scene 2

– Juliet talks about Romeo on her balcony

– Romeo heard her and suddenly talked to her

– They talked for a while, kissed and hugged each other.

– They plan to get married tomorrow morning and Juliet will send a messenger at 9 am to Romeo saying where they will marry.

– Juliet’s nurse calls Juliet

– Then they said goodbye

Act 2 Scene 3

– Romeo arrives in his neighborhood

– Finds Friar Laurence.and tells him if he could hold Juliet’s and Romeo’s marriage

– However, Friar Laurence says that a few days ago he was still in love with Roselyn

– Friar Laurence thinks for a moment and says this marriage might end the fight with the Capulet and the Montague

– Friar Laurence says yes

Act 2 Scene 4

– Mercutio was wondering where Romeo was all night

– Romeo’s friends were teasing Romeo about love and they were joking a bit.

– Juliet’s nurse came with a white head cloth on her head

– Romeo and his friends ( especially Mercutio) were laughing at the nurse

– The nurse said to talk to Romeo privately and Romeo’s friends were mocking at her

– The nurse got really angry and started to hit some of Romeo’s friends, Romeo’s friends started to pull the cloth on her head.

– A small fight went on

– Then the nurse finally had her chance to talk to Romeo and told him about the time of the marriage.

– The nurse then started to talk about Juliet and how cute she was when she young.

Act 2 scene 5

– Juliet waits impatiently for the nurse to come

– The nurse takes forever to tell Juliet the news and Juliet becomes more impatient

– The nurse finally tells Juliet that she is getting married tomorrow and she is meeting Friar Lawrence tomorrow

Act 2 scene 6

– Friar Laurence tells Romeo to keep his love for Juliet moderate

– Juliet and Romeo meets and they kiss

– Friar Laurence tells both of them to enter the ceremony and they get married

Act 2 scene 7

– Mercutio was drinking water while Tybalt arrives and ask where’s Romeo

– Romeo comes and Tybalt challenges Romeo

– Romeo doesn’t want to be challenged. Instead, Tybalt challenges Mercutio

Act 3 scene 1

– Mercutio dies and Tybalt runs away

– Romeo becomes extremely angry and chases Tybalt

– Then, Romeo challenges Tybalt in the square

– Tybalt dies and Romeo runs away

Act 3 scene 2

– The prince comes and asks Benvolio what happened

– Benvolio was explaining what had happened, he got interrupted by Lady Capulet

– Lady Capulet says that Romeo should be killed

– The prince decides that Romeo is banished from this place forever

– Romeo is crying on the ground and is mad at himself

-Romeo has a last night with Juliet

– Romeo’s next step is to persuade people why he should be back

Act 3 scene 3

– Juliet keeps crying in her bed

– Lady Capulet thinks that she keeps crying because Romeo’s revenge is not enough and she misses Tybalt

– Juliet pretends to agree with her mom

– Her mom cheers Juliet up by saying that the marriage is arranged on Thursday with Paris

– Juliet doesn’t want it to happen and she says that she won’t

– Juliet’s dad heard about it and was really angry

– Her dad threatens her by saying that if Juliet doesn’t marries Paris he will throw her out of the house

– Juliet asks the nurse for advice, the nurse says to marry Paris and he looks better than Romeo

– Juliet is sad and is going to ask Friar Laurence for advice

Act 4 scene 1

– Juliet runs to find Friar Laurence for advice.

– Juliet sees Paris with Friar Laurence.Paris teases Juliet to see her reaction

– Paris reminds Juliet about the marriage on Thursday

– Juliet enters Friar Lawrence and weeps

– Juliet begs Friar Lawrence to think of a plan or how to prevent it.

– Friar Laurence and Juliet talks and Friar Laurence thinks of a plan

– The plan is that on the wedding day, Juliet will take a potion to make her asleep for 48 hours. It would look like that Juliet is really died. The wedding would be canceled and when Romeo comes back 2 days later, Juliet would wake up and they both could leave

Act 4 scene 2

– Juliet apologises to her father about her bad behaviour

– Juliet tells her father and her mother that she will marry Paris

– Her father is so happy that he would move the wedding to Wednesday ( originally Thursday)

– Juliet then takes a potion and falls asleep.

– Friar Laurence would write a letter to Romeo about the plan

Act 4 scene 3

– The nurse screams in the morning saying that Juliet is dead

– A funeral is held and Romeo’s servant sees that Juliet is dead and gets on a horse to tell Romeo

– Romeo’s servant passes the mail person ( walking really slowly) and he is calling Romeo

Act 5 scene 1

– Romeo hears the news that Juliet is dead