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Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet The opening of the film uses many things such as genre, sound, text and visuals to change your ideas of what the film will be like from a romantic tragedy to exciting and action filled. There are several genres used in the opening like action, comedy and western. Normally in action movies there are heroes, villains, guns and a big opening stunt to bring you into the action and 'prepare' you. In Romeo and Juliet at the start there is the fight between the Montague boys and the Capulets. Although there are no real heroes or villains I think that the Capulets especially Tybalt come across as the villains for the reason that they wear dark clothes and shoot the most people. There is lots of action centred on the petrol station with people getting shot and the petrol station on fire and finally exploding. It is...

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