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zerocool84
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there's only one "romeo + juliet"... different than the numerous "romeo and juliet"s.
it's the one with claire danes, leonardo dicaprio, john leguizamo, paul rudd, paul sorvino, etc.
ProfJohn
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What I like about that version is all the bits of it that hint at other Shakespear works or the movies/tv shows of Leo or Claire.
Some pretty amazing things:
Billboard for Prospero liquor with "Such stuff as dreams are made on" as the ad line.
References to Leo's part in Basketball Diaries and Claire's in My So-Called Life etc etc
I wrote a paper comparing this to the classic 1968 version and learned all kinds of neat stuff.
Some pretty amazing things:
Billboard for Prospero liquor with "Such stuff as dreams are made on" as the ad line.
References to Leo's part in Basketball Diaries and Claire's in My So-Called Life etc etc
I wrote a paper comparing this to the classic 1968 version and learned all kinds of neat stuff.
man, everyone's so young in this movie... it's crazy to see. paul rudd looks like he's 20 and claire danes and leo dicaprio look about 16.
AreaCode707
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Haven't seen that, should probably pick it up. I <3 Kenneth Brannaugh's (sp) version of Much Ado About Nothing. Best Shakespeare movie I've seen.
i didn't ever pick up on that. pretty awesome. you sure it wasn't lots of coincidence and you reading too much into it?
you seen the kenneth branaugh version of 'hamlet'? pretty awesome. his version and mel gibson's.
i haven't seen ethan hawke's version yet, but i heard it's pretty good.
I thought it was one of the silliest things I'd ever seen. The modern images and classic dialogue were horrible bedfellows and the whole thing felt forced for the sake of getting DiCaprio a love story vehicle when every 12 to 18 year old female on the planet was digging his pubescent surfer hairdo.
Anyway, enjoy.
Edit: And yeah, Kenneth Branaugh is a badass with his Shakespeare stuff. But then he goes and does something like Wild Wild West. But hey, at least he was an interesting/kind of funny racist villian.
i love how, in this version, each character absolutely lives up to their name (benvolio is really optomistic, mercutio has an extremely bipolar/volatile personality, etc.). also, the timing is perfect in the dialogue in showing you how relevant shakespeare's dialogues can still apply today and how they were ahead of their time... so many play on words and so many continuations of sentences to completely change the intended original dialogue.
ProfJohn
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Nope, there are to many allusions for it to be coincidence.
I don't have paper on this computer but a few things I remember:
Leo sitting on the beach matches a scene from Basketball Diaries
Claire sitting in her room matches many scenes from So Called Life
There are TONS of references to other Shakespeare works. A club called the Globe. Posters and references containing quotes from other Shakespeare works.
The list is pretty extensive.
i know about the various shakespeare allusions, but not about how every scene with leo and claire has some kind of allusion involving their previous popular works.
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