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Film clip: \"Letters To Juliet\"AP Television Verona, 1 July 20102. Wide of woman looking over from Juliet's balcony3. Close of sign...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003emusic/video/performance rights must be cleared\u003cbr/\u003eSummit Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eNo re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e1. Film clip: \"Letters To Juliet\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eVerona, 1 July 2010\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of woman looking over from Juliet's balcony\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of sign reading (Italian), \"Juliet's house\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of couple kissing and entering house\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various top shots of people entering and pinning notes to the wall\u003cbr/\u003e6. Man pinning note on Juliet's wall and walking off\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of note reading (Spanish) \"I hope you love me forever. I love you Jose.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Man writing note\u003cbr/\u003e9. Girls pinning notes to wall and taking picture of it\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Piero D'Aniello, museum employee and guard\u003cbr/\u003e\"They are all messages written by people who are looking for some help from Juliet and each person writes what they wish for.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of note on the wall\u003cbr/\u003e12. Woman reading notes on the wall\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Millie Hogue, American tourist\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I haven't found anyone in my life yet that I'm in a serious relationship with now, so maybe I'll ask for that, some good luck along the way.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Woman waving from Juliet's balcony\u003cbr/\u003e15. Tourists crowding around Juliet's statue\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up of man posing with Juliet statue\u003cbr/\u003e17. Women posing with Juliet statue\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ms Broderick (no first name given), Canadian tourist\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the movie 'Letters to Juliet', somebody came every night and took the letters down and wrote answers. And I don't know whether they do that. But the most important thing is to get it in writing.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of letters on table of 'Juliet Club'\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of secretaries of Juliet meeting to discuss how to respond to more controversial letters\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eVerona, 30 June 2010\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of Oliviero Porcu writing letter to Juliet\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Oliviero Porcu, resident of Verona\u003cbr/\u003e\"Love is what keeps you going because being alone is not nice. Loneliness is very hard.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of Oliviero posting letter\u003cbr/\u003e24. Establishing shot of Juliet Club member Marinella Fedrigoli \u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of letters on table\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marinella Fedrigoli, Juliet Club member\u003cbr/\u003e\"The majority of the letters talk about loneliness, absence of love and relationships that are not working out. Happy letters are rare, very rare. Sometimes if someone is getting married, but generally women complain about the difficulty of having a relationship.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Tilt up of items sold at Juliet Club shop\u003cbr/\u003e28. Close up of heart \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of employee Claudio Franchetto working at sewing machine\u003cbr/\u003e30. Tilt up of Claudio sewing at a sewing machine\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Claudio Franchetto, employee at tailor shop near Juliet's house\u003cbr/\u003e\"I didn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. And, obviously, all the anger that a person can suffer, or withstand, all the worse things a person can feel for another person, I have felt all of them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of Juliet tomb sign\u003cbr/\u003e33. Interior of Juliet tomb\u003cbr/\u003e34. Wide of William Shakespeare statue\u003cbr/\u003e35. Close up of statue\u003cbr/\u003e36. Inscription near statue taken from Shakespeare's play, 'Romeo and Juliet'\u003cbr/\u003e37. Close up of inscription reading, 'Romeo and Juliet'\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eRome, 8 July 2010\u003cbr/\u003e38. Tilt up psychologist Maria Pichi at her desk\u003cbr/\u003e39. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maria Pichi, psychologist, psychotherapist and online agony aunt \u003cbr/\u003e\"Writing to a famous character and then receiving a letter, possibly even from the other side of the world, this somehow leads to the gratification of this narcissism. Likewise, narcissism is gratified when one sees oneself represented in a magazine, with a signed letter, or on forums where, sometimes with a nickname or sometimes with a real name, everyone joins in, so that means more people involved in the story.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eRome, 4 July 2010\u003cbr/\u003e40. Mid 'Terme di Caracalla' venue stage where ballet production of 'Romeo and Juliet' is being performed\u003cbr/\u003e41. Various of Juliet on balcony\u003cbr/\u003e42. Romeo and Juliet secretly getting married\u003cbr/\u003e43. Various of performance\u003cbr/\u003e44. Various of Juliet being carried off presumed dead\u003cbr/\u003e45. Romeo drinking poison\u003cbr/\u003e46. Cutaway musicians\u003cbr/\u003e47. Various of Juliet stabbing herself and dying in Romeo's arms\u003cbr/\u003eThe Italian city of Verona is forever linked to love and broken hearts after Shakespeare's tale of two star crossed lovers, 'Romeo and Juliet'.\u003cbr/\u003eToday people of all races and ages flock to what is known as Juliet's house, many pinning love notes to the walls of the fictional character's courtyard. \u003cbr/\u003eWhat they don't know is that there's a secret group dedicated to answering everyone of them. \u003cbr/\u003eThe romantic comedy,  'Letters To Juliet'  tells the story of an American girl who, on holiday in Verona, finds and answers a letter to Juliet that had been lost for 50 years. \u003cbr/\u003eVerona is the setting for William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' and, over the years, the charming city has become a symbol for both lovers and the lovelorn from all over the world. \u003cbr/\u003eTourists flock to what is known as Juliet's house - to stand on her famous balcony, take a picture with her statue in the front patio, or touch the statue's right breast, which is said to bring good luck.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the house is also famous for the messages of love pinned on the walls of the fictional character's courtyard. \u003cbr/\u003e\"They are all messages written by people who are looking for some help from Juliet and each person writes what they wish for,\" says museum employee Piero D'Aniello. \u003cbr/\u003eSome declare love - others ask for it. \u003cbr/\u003eAmerican tourist Milly Hogue has overcome a heartbreak. Now she says she's ready to ask Juliet to help her find the right guy. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I haven't found anyone in my life yet that I'm in a serious relationship with now, so maybe I'll ask for that, some good luck along the way.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMrs. Broderick, a tourist from Canada says she learned about the letters through, 'Letters to Juliet'. \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the movie 'Letters to Juliet', somebody came every night and took the letters down and wrote answers. And I don't know whether they do that,\" she says. \u003cbr/\u003eWhat she doesn't know is that, The Juliet Club, a group of fifteen volunteers composed of both men and women, answers every single one of them. \u003cbr/\u003eOnly a few steps away from her, the club meets regularly to discuss how to answer the hundreds of letters they receive each week. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Juliet Club is a group of volunteers who dedicate their time and energy to give advice and support to the heartbroken people from all over the world that write to Juliet. \u003cbr/\u003eKnown as the 'fifteen secretaries of Juliet', they receive an average of 5000 letters a year, many of them simply posted to, 'Juliet, Verona, Italy'.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Love is what keeps you going because being alone is not nice. Loneliness is very hard,\" says Oliviero Porcu a resident of Verona who's decided to post a letter. \u003cbr/\u003eMarinella Fedrigoli is one of 'Juliet's secretaries'. She has been answering letters addressed to Juliet for more than 20 years. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The majority of the letters talk about loneliness, absence of love and relationships that are not working out,\" she explains. \"Happy letters are rare, very rare. Sometimes if someone is getting married, but generally women complain about the difficulty of having a relationship.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut even men suffer broken hearts.\u003cbr/\u003eClaudio Franchetti works in the tailor shop next to Juliet's house selling Romeo and Juliet souvenirs. He was left distraught when his partner left him taking their 5-year old son. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I didn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. And, obviously, all the rage that a person can suffer, or withstand, all the worse things a person can feel for another person, I have felt all of them,\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe first letters to Juliet began to arrive in 1937 at her alleged tomb in the city after the release of George Cukor's film about the star-crossed couple. \u003cbr/\u003eThe caretaker at the time replied to those first letters, but when the number increased the local government of Verona took over until, finally, in the 1980s, the Juliet Club was born. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to Rome based psychologist Maria Pichi, the reason people feel inclined to write to someone they don't know, be it a fictional character such as Juliet Capulet or an agony aunt in a magazine is narcissistic. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Writing to a famous character and then receiving a letter, possibly even from the other side of the world, this somehow leads to the gratification of this narcissism. 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