Re: Dromio and Juliet
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 21:27:08 -0500
At 17:31 11/02/98 -0500, Jim wrote:
>...
>I have to Totally disagree with your belief that the actors didn't
>understand their lines. I thought they pretty generally nailed it. The
>delivery seemed pretty natural to me.
>...
Pete Postlethwaite was divinely inspired in that film; he put on the
best performance of anyone in the movie. Everyone else, I agree, was
almost universally convincing except for one: pretty boy diCaprio. I
understand why some "teeny-boppers" (as Emily Freidman correctly nails
them) would go crazy over him, but out of all the actors in this movie,
I felt like he was the only one whose acting seemed unnatural, forced.
ESCPECIALLY in his mad raving scene in the beginning with Benvolio, when
he's spouting off everything he scribbles in his notes. In that scene
in particular, he begins to sound like a whiny 14 yr old schoolgirl.
(No offense to any possible 14 yr old females reading this list.)
Besides, though he looks about 16, he's still way too old for the part;
R+J are supposed to be barely teenagers, around 13 or 14. If they're
going to make the characters older (they seem to aim for a sexy 18 or 19)
they need to sound and act that way. You can't have it both ways.
Aside from picking on Leonardo, I thought the acting was superb. Some
people unavoidably take offense to such wide-ranging tampering with the
Bard, but I thought the adaptation was ingenious, clever, and mostly
faithful.
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