DIFFERENCES OF ROMEO AND JULIET (the book and the film)

Question 1. SETTING:Places Where does the classical play and the new version take place? Example: Verona vs Verona Beach . Where are they? Which century?

In the book Verona (Italy) is an old city, and the film Verona (USA) is a modern city. The book is a real history in 1595 (16th century), but the film is in real life in actuallity (21st century).

Question 2.. IMAGERY: metaphors & images : What do they mean?
WATER (swimming pool, beach, aquarium...): Represents the purity, innocence, unity of the two bodies who are in love.
DAY and NIGHT: The day is the time to be separed, to stay alone, and dreaming with the night, because the night represents when the two lovers finally meet again with the dark of the sky.
Question 3.. LANGUAGE. Which characters speak in verse and which in prose? Who is the narrator?
Question 4. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY.What's the role of the costumes the characters wear?
Question 5. ELEMENTS. To make the new version, basic elements have been changed. Example: swords for gun
Question 6. Other differences of the classical version and the film version

FIRE (petrol station, fights...): Represents de evil and the death.

MOON: Represents the fake love, because the moon is constantly change, but the love of Romeo and Juliet is forever.

In the film, the main characters are Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, And the parents of Romeo and Juliet. The narrator is the news, that we can see in the begining and the end of the film in the TV. 

Romeo: Knight

Juliet: Angel

Mercutio: A woman

Paris: Astronaut

The Prince for a Police man

The horses for cars

In the the end of the film Paris don't fight with Romeo.