The 1994 film The Punk uses both the rough plot outline of Romeo and Juliet and names many of the characters in ways that reflect the characters in the play.

One of the most famous uses of a balcony is in traditional stagings of the scene that has come to be known as the " balcony scene " in William Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet ( though in fact the scene makes no mention of a balcony, but only of a window at which Juliet appears ).

Alfa Romeo uses Torsen C twin differential in Alfa Romeo 156 Crosswagon Q4 and then in 159, Brera and Spider Q4 models.

West Side Story uses themes from Romeo and Juliet ( such as forbidden love and a tragic ending ) to create a new, original story.

Ferrari prepared, and successfully raced, various drivers in Alfa Romeo cars until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department.

In this year, Nuvolari scored his most impressive victory, thought by many to be the greatest victory in car racing of all times, when at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, driving an old Alfa Romeo P3 ( 3167 cc, compressor, 265 hp ) versus the dominant, all conquering home team's cars of five Mercedes-Benz W25 ( 3990 cm³, 8C, compressor,, driven by Caracciola, Fagioli, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Geyer ) and four Auto Union Tipo B ( 4950 cc, 16C, compressor,, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer, Varzi, Hans Stuck and Paul Pietsch ).

Caliri designed the M184, the team's prototype Formula One car ( intended as a dual purpose design for the new Formula 3000 ) around Alfa Romeo's V8 turbocharged engine but when engineer Carlo Chiti left Alfa Romeo to found Motori Moderni, Minardi became the only customer for his new V6 engine design.

Zeffirelli's major breakthrough came the year after when he presented two teenagers as Romeo and Juliet, the perfect venue for 1968.

He goes to invite everyone, but he is sidetracked when he meets a boy named Romeo — nicknamed Lampwick because he is so tall and skinny.

Indeed, Sir Toby in Twelfth Night is seen saying, in reference to Sir Andrew's hair, that " it hangs like flax on a distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off ;" the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that " Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face?

Abbott and Portillo have known each other since school, when they appeared in joint school productions of Romeo and Juliet ( although not in the title roles ), and of Macbeth as Lady Macduff and Macduff respectively.

He replicated this achievement on the television programme Top Gear ( Series 10 Episode 6 ) when he raced James May who drove a Alfa Romeo 159 around the inland part of the estuary without using the Humber Bridge.

He also played some Shakespearean roles which he never essayed on stage, such as Iago in a 1932 broadcast of Othello opposite Henry Ainley as the Moor, Buckingham ( 1954 ) and Cranmer ( 1977 ) in Henry VIII, and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet for the first time when he was eighty-nine.

The Alfa Romeo team dominated the 1950 Formula One season, winning all eleven events it entered ( six World Championship events and five non-Championship races ), but Ferrari broke their streak in 1951 when rotund driver José Froilán González took first place at the 1951 British Grand Prix.

Due to the Great Depression annual auto races were not resumed until 1931, when Caracciola again won in a Mercedes-Benz SSK, succeeded by Manfred von Brauchitsch in the next year, after Caracciola had switched to Alfa Romeo.

He suggested that Shakespeare had been influenced by the feud between the Danvers and Long families in Wiltshire, when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

However, she was able to figure out that Helga was in love with Arnold during the play of Romeo & Juliet, where she noticed Helga desperately wanted to play Juliet when Arnold was selected to play Romeo.

In 1980, de Cesaris was then picked up by Alfa Romeo for the final events of the 1980 World Championship, replacing Vittorio Brambilla who had, in turn, replaced Patrick Depailler when he was killed testing at Hockenheim.

His reputation began to improve in 1983, when his Alfa Romeo now used a turbo engine.

French cars continued to dominate ( led by Bugatti, but also including Delage and Delahaye ) until the late 1920s, when the Italians ( Alfa Romeo and Maserati ) began to beat the French cars regularly.

As with the companies that they bought, some of the labels were created exclusively for specific stores: Challenge and Conqueror ( Sears, Roebuck ), Oriole ( McCrory ), Romeo ( Kress ) and when the contracts ended, the labels ended too.

Maranello has been the location for the Ferrari factory since the early 1940s, when Enzo Ferrari transferred operations from the Scuderia Ferrari Garage and Factory in Modena, which had been his base of operations dating back to Scuderia Ferrari's days as an arm of Alfa Romeo, due to bombing during World War II.

The Glaswegian workforce, who were mainly recruited from the shipbuilding industry were not versed in the intricacies of motor vehicle assembly, and Imp build quality and reliability suffered accordingly ( many years later Alfa Romeo suffered similar problems when they established Alfasud in Naples as a production satellite of Alfa Nord in Milan ).

350 units were planned but production was halted after 252 units when the Zagato factory producing the cars for Alfa Romeo went in to receivership, a further 32 cars were then completed under the control of the receivers before production finished at 284 units, making the RZ the lowest production Alfa Romeo ever produced.

Troilus and Cressida was originally intended to follow Romeo and Juliet, but the typesetting was stopped, probably due to a conflict over the rights to the play ; it was later inserted as the first of the Tragedies, when the rights question was resolved.

" Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.

The conceit of dramatising Shakespeare writing Romeo and Juliet has been used several times, including John Madden's 1998 Shakespeare in Love, in which Shakespeare writes the play against the backdrop of his own doomed love affair.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, for example, shows Romeo attempting to love Rosaline in an almost contrived courtly fashion while Mercutio mocks him for it.

Most famously, the plot of Romeo and Juliet, in which the titular characters, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, fall in love at a party the Capulet family hosts, but they cannot be together because the two families hold " an ancient grudge " ( which the young lovers ' deaths eventually quash ), and because Juliet has been engaged by her parents to a man named Paris.

Edmond Rostand adapted the tale from Romeo and Juliet, making the fathers of the lovers conspire to bring their children together by pretending to forbid their love, in Les Romanesques.

The first of these works was A Village Romeo and Juliet, a music drama which departs from the normal operatic structure of acts and scenes and tells its story of tragic love in a series of tableaux.

" I pray That thou consent to marry us " implies that the marriage means the removal of the social obstacle between the two opposing families, not that marriage is sought by Romeo with Juliet for any other particular reason, as adding to their love or giving it any more meaning.

Some readers admit stories without a happy ending, if the focus of the story is on the romantic love between the two main characters ( e. g. Romeo and Juliet ).

* According to John Madden's 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, the play that became Romeo and Juliet was originally intended as a comedy, but developed into the tragic play we know due to a doomed love affair which Shakespeare himself underwent at the time.

The film borrows elements from both the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys as well as Romeo and Juliet as Porky and Petunia's love for each other is stymied by their respective hillbilly families ' mutual hatred.

She next provided her voice for the character of Laila, the love interest of a street dog named Romeo, in the Yash Raj Films and Walt Disney Pictures animated film Roadside Romeo.

It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet, which was itself said to have been inspired by a Latin version of Layla and Majnun to an extent.

In William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet, epithets are used in the prologue, used in the familiar phrase of " star-cross'd lovers " and " death-mark'd love.

Boys Don't Cry has been regarded academically as a thematically rich love story between two ill-fated lovers, not unlike Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

This emphasizes the tragic aspect of the love story, which led many commentators to compare Brandon and Lana's relationship and subsequent drama to classic and modern romances like Romeo and Juliet, often using the term star-crossed lovers.

Shakespeare's love interest in the film, " Viola " ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), is the daughter of a wealthy merchant who disguises herself as a boy to become an actor ; while Shakespeare, a financially struggling playwright suffering from writer's block is trying to write Romeo and Juliet.

While the original focus was on the Romeo and Juliet style love story of Tyler and Julie, the bulk of the storyline quickly switched to Trey and Sloane whose 1984 wedding was filmed on location at the Jefferson Memorial.

The most famous reference to medlars, often bowdlerized until modern editions accepted it, appears in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when Mercutio laughs at Romeo's unrequited love for his mistress Rosaline ( II, 1, 34-38 ):

Romeo and Juliet, due to their enduring legacy and popularity, are considered an ideal supercouple outline for aspects of forbidden or tragic love, and the relationship between Anthony and Cleopatra has been described as fitting the power-couple trope.