[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A couple different generations grew up knowing about this controversy!
Before Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes and The Cardigans, the Romeo and Juliet every 8th grade literature class had to watch was the 1968 version directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
It was a huge hit that was nominated for four Oscars, and for years it was considered the film version of the Shakespeare classic.
It helped that for more verisimilitude, the Italian filmmaker cast actual teens to play the titular star-crossed lovers instead of seasoned adults as one would sometimes see on stage.
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