I do wish the boy who plays Romeo wasn't such a pouty male model type though.
Before I even clicked through, I hoped it was Pip from the recent Great Expectations (because no one is poutier), and it was!
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
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Jesse - Aug 02, 2013 8:59:38 am PDT #25086 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Burrell - Aug 02, 2013 12:07:28 pm PDT #25087 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Romeo and Juliet just isn't that high on my list of Shakespeare plays I'd like to see performed or filmed. I'm clearly in the minority however.
megan walker - Aug 02, 2013 12:39:40 pm PDT #25088 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Well, I agree with you Burrell.
I think that's because the last act is more stupidity than tragedy.
JZ - Aug 02, 2013 1:26:10 pm PDT #25089 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Has there been a big-screen As You Like It in, like, ever?
Huh. IMDB says yes, and only 7 years ago, but I swear I had never, ever heard a whisper of it. Possibly I was too busy lying flat and trying not to bust up my placenta or something to keep up with In Theaters Now. But, still, I can't believe I didn't even know it existed.
Polter-Cow - Aug 02, 2013 1:32:48 pm PDT #25090 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Impact Theater did As You Like It in the spring. It was fun!
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2013 1:39:59 pm PDT #25091 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do any filmed R&J's make them look properly stupid?
Amy - Aug 02, 2013 1:45:12 pm PDT #25092 of 30000
Because books.
I remember seeing Franco Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet in high school, and thinking it was very tragically romantic, but I was, you know, fifteen. The thing about the story is that it almost seems like it could have been written by a melodramatic tween fan-ficcer.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2013 1:57:48 pm PDT #25093 of 30000
brillig
a melodramatic tween fan-ficcer.
There so needs to be a Shakespeare bio-pic done where that line gets thrown in.
Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2013 3:49:40 pm PDT #25094 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
IMDB says yes, and only 7 years ago, but I swear I had never, ever heard a whisper of it.
Oh, right. That's the one set in Meiji era Japan, I think? I remember being intrigued because they race-bent Orlando (David Oyelowo played him) but the reviews were quite bad, if I recall and it never came to the big screen in my neighborhood.
My cross dressing Shakespeare of choice is Twelfth Night -- I have a good deal of fondness for the Trevor Nunn version but that was almost 20 years ago. I keep hoping someone would do another adaptation of it.
Burrell - Aug 02, 2013 3:57:36 pm PDT #25095 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I love Twelfth Night too, Vonnie.
The thing about the story is that it almost seems like it could have been written by a melodramatic tween fan-ficcer.
Yes. And every step of the plot hinges on someone making a stupid choice.