The camera is treated like an audience, with the actors simply marching back and forth on a stage.

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They do not see people simply as individual economic actors, untrammelled by ties, culture or history.

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Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.

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