[Movie Script]Romeo & Juliet

                          WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S



                             ROMEO & JULIET









                               Adapted by



                      Craig Pearce & Baz Luhrmann










                                                 Shooting script



                                                 October 6, 1995








          EXT. HIGHWAY. AFTERNOON.




          A ribbon of freeway stretching into a blue and pink late

afternoon sky. A huge dark sedan, windows tinted gold,

headlights blazing, powers directly for us.


          CUT TO: A heavy, low-slung, pickup truck traveling toward

the sedan.


          WIDE SHOT: Sky, freeway, the cars closing.


          TIGHT ON: The sedan.


          TIGHT ON: The pickup.



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