Dromio and Juliet
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:22:35 -0500
Pasha Paterson wrote:
> I can't believe anyone could be so incensed about the recent movie
> rendition of Romeo and Juliet, going so far as to call it "not
> Shakespeare"!
It does depart significantly from Shakespeare--or rather, by adhering
impossibly to Shakespeare, it manages to stray considerably. Somehow.
Never before was a movie compelled to explain why a gun was refered to
as a "sword."
> A fellow student and I followed the movie through
> Shakespeare's script and found that the only differences were caused
> by the time limit imposed by modern movie convention. The morph from
> 16th to 21st century was absolutely inspired.
Time enough for a six minute gas-station-exploding gunfight to open the
project, but not for Juliet to say a full 1/3 of her lines? Ah, well;
maybe it was worth it. My most consistent complaint is that very few of
the actors seemed to have taken the time to figure out what their lines
meant.
Oddly enough, I enjoyed the film a great deal and have showed it to two
lit./comp classes.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu