Re: Dromio and Juliet
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:47:28 -0800 (PST)
---Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
>
Matt, At last I agree with you but I don't think that I could stand to
watch the movie again. Maybe it's because when I saw it I was
surrounded by a crowd of teeny boppers who really could care less
about the quality of the movie but were just there to swoon over
Leonardo. Also, the wedding seen when the choir sang a Prince song
made me cringe.
-Liz Friedman
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