Romeo&Juliet same as R&Julie?

I am unsure if this will be the popular opinion, but I cannot seem to make enough connections between Warm Bodies and Romeo & Juliet for it to make sense to compare them. I can see the resemblance in the names, and the two opposing worlds colliding, but other than that I am lost. If someone could help me out with this I would appreciate it. 

I can clearly see the connection between West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet, that seems much more apparent than Warm Bodies and Romeo & Juliet.
So my question is: how do you connect Warm Bodies and Romeo & Juliet other than the name similarities and the opposite worlds coming together via two people?

What makes "Great Art"?

I chose to watch Warm Bodies(2013) along with West Side Story(1961).  I found this version(Warm Bodies) of Romeo and Juliet to be entertaining.  The story was modified to fit pop culture and the intense interest in zombies and the apocalypse.  As I was reading Bourdieu's piece, he included a quote by Suzanne Langer that said, "But now that everyone can read, go to museums, listen to great music, at least on the radio, the judgement of the masses about these things has become a reality and through this it has become clear that great art is not a direct sensuous pleasure.  Otherwise, like cookies or cocktails, it would flatter uneducated taste as much as cultured taste." As I read this quote, I understood it to mean that great art is not something that can just be consumed, you have to be educated to understand the deeper meanings behind it.  Is Romeo and Juliet still a product of high culture?  Especially in the Warm Bodies adaption of the story, I feel like the story has been adapted to fit popular culture and has created new ideas that did not exist in the original story.  Besides R, the zombie, Romeo and Julie being the human, Juliet they were not really star cross lovers and there was less of a focus on the other characters except for the role of Nora as the best friend/advisor.  The major theme seemed to be that love and understanding can change even the toughest of hearts.  That seems to be quite different from the original Romeo and Juliet.

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The Art of Love and Zombies

"A work of art has meaning and interest only for someone who possess the cultural competence...the code into which it is encoded."

My experience with rewatching and finally finishing West Side Story then to jump into Warm Bodies was strange to say the least. The variations of the love of Romeo and Juliet, the remixing of the nurse and the two "houses" at odds with each other, even death is switched up a bit to accommodate to the remixed plot. I find it hilarious that these directors and writers can create the same premise but make it fit into the current times, especially in a zombie apocalypse.

The quote above I disagree with completely. A work of art can have meaning and interest for many people. You can show a random person who isn't fully culturally aware Warm Bodies, they'll still understand that it's clearly a zombie movie that wanted to jump on the zombie hype train of the time but make it a love story. Sure, they won't delve any deeper than that meaning for them but this quote seems to have a narrow view on what makes culture culture.

Reboots and Deviation

In comparing West Side Story and Warm Bodies to the original text of Romeo and Juliet. I caught myself wondering if, outside of context, I would have recognized the films as remixes of the play.  Of course there are the subtle (and not so subtle) nods to the play; the balcony scenes, names of characters, and perhaps even lines or phrases from the original text, but I’m not certain that a love story between two members of opposing parties makes a work recognizable as a Romeo and Juliet remix.  Sure, the folks who wrote Warm Bodies modeled their story heavily off of Shakespeare’s play, but deviations from the source material may lead readers to claim that a reboot does not do the original work justice.  I was dissatisfied with the “happily ever after” ending of Warm Bodies, but perhaps that is simply because it didn’t go in the direction I was expecting.  Had I been unaware that the film was a remix, maybe I would have been relieved, rather than annoyed, that nobody died.