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...Save the Last Dance" draws some of its core plot from a thousand other star- crossed-lovers stories (think Romeo and Juliet) and its basic style from a thousand other fast-cutting MTV-influenced films (think "Romeo and Juliet" as directed by Baz Luhrmann). Julia Stiles ("Ten Things I Hate About You") plays Sara, an aspiring dancer who, after a family tragedy, transfers from her comfortable suburban school to a mostly minority school in the inner city. Once there, she encounters Derek (played by Sean Patrick Thomas, previously seen in "Cruel Intentions"), a black student at her new school...
...reshooting scenes and redubbing voice-overs. "I would do a movie for a year if I could, and do as many takes as I can," he says. "I'm indecisive. It isn't my strongest character trait." Even the decision to star in Titanic took a long time. Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo + Juliet, finally convinced him that a big-budget film offered its own kind of acting risk. "The thing he hates most in life is making a decision," says Luhrmann. "It's a great pain to get Leo to commit to anything in life, particularly a role...
CONCEIVED BY: Baz Luhrmann, director of the 1996 film Romeo + Juliet and the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom...
PROVENANCE: A column Schmich wrote in 1997 achieved fame when it got sent out over the Internet, inexplicably and erroneously labeled as a commencement speech by author Kurt Vonnegut. Taken with Schmich's words, Luhrmann added a techno beat...
...many times before. Performing "Shakespeare-in-the-yard" has become so cliched that the Class of 1999 made the phrase itself the title of their Freshman Musical. However, add some modern twists, funky costumes and characters with character, and you've got a hit as big as Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo and Juliet"--or, on a more local scale, last spring's production of "As You Like...