Capturing the essence of their ill-fated love story meant relocating the famed balcony scene to a swimming pool.
(It still involved chain mail, though.)
You know its going to end badly, but at that time, its romance.
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[We were] using the water so they can almost be together.
It brought a sensual barrier that wasnt a concrete barrier.
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Really both of them were quite fearless; they tended to do everything themselves, he says.
Once she falls in, its an hour turnaround, Luhrmann says of then-16-year-old Danes.
Remember, shes in school, so we only got very limited time.
You have to get these things really in one go.
Thats why the scene has such a vibrancy, theres not a lot of second chance with it.
