Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) is a Czech film about a Jewish woman who is hidden from the Gestapo by her student lover.
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Butterfly Lovers gets called a Romeo+Juliet story despite being decided about a rich family and a poor one. It's about class difference.
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Torn Apart (1990) is apparently about an Israeli Jewish man falls in love with a Palestinian woman.
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The anime Romeo x Juliet, set in Neo Verona after Capulets won & Juliet is a masked vigilante rebelling against oppressive Capulet rule
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Malorie Blackman's excellent Noughts & Crosses was once described to me as a Romeo&Juliet story, despite power differences in their status.
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This isn't even to say any of these stories/retellings are themselves bad (though some of them indeed are awful).
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But we need to stop using Romeo&Juliet as shorthand for oppression and racial hatred and segregation and inequality.
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Or at least if we are drawing on R&J for motifs and inspiration, remember the source material's hatred is decidedly not about oppression.
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West Side Story is an interesting take on this. Its argument is that both groups are underprivileged, and essentially fighting over scraps.
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You could argue with that, since the Jets are white and the Sharks are Puerto-rican. But within the play both are portrayed as subaltern.
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Yeah there's the tense moment when Officer Krupke tried to claim he and the Jets are on the same side and they reject him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jeannette_ng
I think the main difference is that the Jets already have the option to get out, whereas the Sharks don't, or at least not yet.
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