the poetic cinema of the montague boys all hanging out at an abandoned playhouse by the beach, and when mercutio is stabbed he runs “off stage” trying to escape his fate — but his ending has already been written
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What’s up Baaler nation (smiles at camera normal)
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R + J (1996) RANT
This is gonna focus mainly on Tybalt lmao
TYBALT AND MERCUTIO AREN’T OPPOSITES, THEY’RE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
THEY ARE INHERENTLY THE SAME BUT ONE IS SEEN AS VIOLENT AND THE OTHER IS SEEN AS IMPULSIVE
THEY ARE ENEMIES FIGHTING THE SAME CAUSE
TYBALT WAS NOT SIMPLY A VOLATILE CHARACTER FOR NO REASON, HE WAS RAISED INTO THAT LINE OF THINKING BY HIS UNCLE AND AUNT (possibly his parents?) AND JULIET IS THE POLER OPPOSITE OF HIM, SHE IS NOT VIOLENT
SHE IS IMMATURE BECAUSE SHE IS A CHILD, HE IS MATURE BECAUSE HE WAS EXPOSED TO AND DESENSITIZED TO THAT SORT OF VIOLENCE
THEY ARE YIN AND YANG
SHE STARTS AND ENDS THE ACTION HE IS THE ACTION
SO WHEN HE DIES SHE DIES AS WELL, THEY ARE INTERCONNECTED
Idk why I wrote this
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anyway. Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann. you agree. reblog.
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romeo + juliet
o romeo, romeo, wherefore art thou romeo? deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and i'll no longer be a capulet.
these violent delights have violent ends,
and in their triumph die,
like fire and powder,
which as they kiss consume.
"but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun."
- Romeo (act 2, scene 2)
"give me my romeo, and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
- Juliet (act 3, scene 2)
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watching romeo + juliet and was initially dubious about them keeping the original lines, however, half-an-hour in i have been converted. awkward mexican stand-offs, the queen mab monologue as drugs, mad fireworks and near-constant bawdy jokes: in no other adaptation have i seen the level of unhinged match the over-the-top writing if the play. this is what shakespeare would've wanted.
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