Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare Legend, Baz luhrmann movie

                                      Two households, both alike in dignity,
                                         In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
                                      From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
                                   Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
                                       From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
                                        A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
                                    Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
                                Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
                                   The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
                                      And the continuance of their parents' rage,
                            Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
                                Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
                                     The which if you with patient ears attend,
                                What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.


   I've been told by many people including my older sister that Romeo and Juliet is the worst of Shakespeare. That it's un-realistic and ridiculous. But, maybe it's not Romeo and Juliet mybe it's the fact that they are so young or maybe teh time period. Would they think differenly if Romeo and Juliet were in their 20's? Maybe, But they made me think that romeo and juliet was awful, when it wasn't.
   Besides the fact that they are young the plot was amazing,the scenery, the setting, phenomenal.
 I liked the whole movie but the most details was the prologue with the sonnet, it was so intense and detailed, it was hard to believe that it was romeo and Juliet. I liked that Baz used Shakespeare play and that he didn't change it up too much, but I also like that he made it to a modern Romeo and Juliet. Did I like it better because of its modern-like structure? or because Leonardo DiCaprio played in it? Haahaa, no but really I never saw Romeo and Juliet as this amazing movie,
   I'm not the kid of student or kid that goes crazy like "Oh my god, it's inspirational and blah blah blah, but for this movie I might not sound like myself, I'm mostly into intense and scary movies, so watching this, (from before I realized it was amazing) I wasn't really into it. Afterwards I didn't mind watching it, usually I watch movies in school to just get it over with, but with this movie because of the setting and scenery I actually enjoyed watching it. <3

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