Movie Review R+J
This is a review about the movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet which is written by William Shakespeare, directed by Baz Luhrmann, and acted by Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo, Claire Danes as Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was born in two generations of feudal family, they meet by chance in the first sight, it is impossible. They turned to Friar Lawrence, and he sympathized and understood them, and secretly held a wedding ceremony for them. But the Capulets want the daughter Juliet to know the young rich man Paris, and forced to marry immediately. Juliet turned to Friar Lawrence again he presented his sleeping pills to her death in the past, in order to avoid this catastrophe. Romeo killed Lady Capulet's nephew Tybalt and got banished from Verona. Romeo got a message of his wife's "death", he return Dutch act of Verona, beside Juliet poison. Juliet woke up from the coma see her husband is dead, also drink poison, suicide death. Their deaths let two families see the heavy price of the feud, so, after the Prince's talk, they become friends. To be honest, the first time I heard that this movie is the modern version of a very classic book, I can barely imagine how the director to film this. Does that mean that Romeo wearing a Hawaii shirt, with a cigarette in his hand, a gun, and a "broken" car can make all the things to be modern? Of course, we had to admit that the film itself provides a unique perspective to re-examine Shakespeare, and question love. At the beginning of the movie Romeo is in a western suit dress and leather shoes at the seaside reading that poetry marks the beginning of a visual subversion. Everything is only in the form, whatever it is the masquerade marked with brand of the times or fighting scene or love. Only in modern times, more specifically belongs to the adolescent restlessness and decadence. "Hate. My only love sprung from my, if not the acquaintance, why! The enemy of yesterday, the lover of today, is afraid of the seeds of love." People always try to seek an ideal love mode in modern complicated social relations. Even if Romeo and Juliet live in the present, there is still a tragedy. "From ancient to modern times many joys and sorrows, but who had seen these sadnesses!" Maybe only death can save everything.
There are actually several beautiful and cute scenes that I like: at a masquerade party, Romeo wearing a silver knight costume met Juliet who is an "angle", two people look across the goldfish translucent trial, they looked at each other, and talk about nothing, the scene is as pretty as a picture, and background music come in at the perfect timing. The beginning of love is this kind of psychedelic hazy feeling, across the goldfish bowl, the director used "water" in the goldfish bowl to highlight the hazy love at first sight of two teenagers who are the most innocent and pure.
Also the scene, Romeo and Juliet secretly married each other in the church, 22 years old Leonardo DiCaprio wearing a delicate suit and holding 17 years old Claire Danes' hands, a serious but happy face toward the Friar, looks really sweet and cute (Shakespeare's original they are only 14 years old, but two actors really acted out the naivete that 14-year-old will have). The last but not least impressive picture of Romeo is that when he got banished from Verona, he looked like a falling angle who had been cut off his wings (he thinks he can never see Juliet again) sitting in the wilderness, smoking, with the Hawaii shirt and his melancholy face was very fit in with the crimson sunset and the silence.
The "interesting" part of this adaptation is that the director added a lot of "missing" and "passed by each other". He made the Fedex guy (who supposed to be Friar John who delivered the letter to Romeo for Friar Lawrence) missed Romeo; he made Juliet saw Romeo at the last moment when they are both still alive, but the point is Romeo had already took the poison, so he can not talk which means he was dying. But, in the original version they never see each other alive. And at the end of the movie adaptation, we never see two families' Lord shake hands and be friends again, which I think is a really important part for the whole play. Although I still did not get why the director do these, this is still a good film to me.
There are actually several beautiful and cute scenes that I like: at a masquerade party, Romeo wearing a silver knight costume met Juliet who is an "angle", two people look across the goldfish translucent trial, they looked at each other, and talk about nothing, the scene is as pretty as a picture, and background music come in at the perfect timing. The beginning of love is this kind of psychedelic hazy feeling, across the goldfish bowl, the director used "water" in the goldfish bowl to highlight the hazy love at first sight of two teenagers who are the most innocent and pure.
Also the scene, Romeo and Juliet secretly married each other in the church, 22 years old Leonardo DiCaprio wearing a delicate suit and holding 17 years old Claire Danes' hands, a serious but happy face toward the Friar, looks really sweet and cute (Shakespeare's original they are only 14 years old, but two actors really acted out the naivete that 14-year-old will have). The last but not least impressive picture of Romeo is that when he got banished from Verona, he looked like a falling angle who had been cut off his wings (he thinks he can never see Juliet again) sitting in the wilderness, smoking, with the Hawaii shirt and his melancholy face was very fit in with the crimson sunset and the silence.
The "interesting" part of this adaptation is that the director added a lot of "missing" and "passed by each other". He made the Fedex guy (who supposed to be Friar John who delivered the letter to Romeo for Friar Lawrence) missed Romeo; he made Juliet saw Romeo at the last moment when they are both still alive, but the point is Romeo had already took the poison, so he can not talk which means he was dying. But, in the original version they never see each other alive. And at the end of the movie adaptation, we never see two families' Lord shake hands and be friends again, which I think is a really important part for the whole play. Although I still did not get why the director do these, this is still a good film to me.
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