The story of Romeo and Juliet is known everywhere. Two people who fall madly in love but are forbidden to be together because of their families and where they came from. One specific movie where I noticed a reference to Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet is The Titanic. The main story the this movie is the actual ship sinking, and the story of that. But the movie also tells a tale of two people who fall in love, Rose and Jack (first similarity, Rose-Romeo, R's, and Jack-Juliet, J's). Rose is of high class, and engaged to someone else of high class. Jack is poor and gambled his way on the ship at the last second. Jack saves Rose from jumping off the side of the ship, and instantly fall in love. They go through lots of people try to break them up, but none of it works. At the end Rose has to let Jack sink to the bottom of the ocean, and she gets saved. It is a very famous tragic love story, just like Romeo and Juliet's.
(Also, the same actor, Leonardo Dicaprio, plays both Romeo and Jack!)
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