The film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet differs from the play in several key ways: the narrator is a TV instead of an objective narrator, the prince of Verona is now the police boss, and while the family names are the same they are no longer medieval but modern. Additionally, swords are replaced with guns, the family feud starts at a gas station instead of the streets, Mantua represents a desert instead of a city, Juliet kills herself with a gun instead of a dagger, and the police explain the deaths instead of Friar Laurence.