Romeo + Juliet

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bonanzataz

May 02, 2003, 08:01:19 PM
so, my school is doing a production of romeo and juliet set in a modern day catholic high school with a live rock band in the background. i'm soundboard operator and must have seen them rehearse 20 times and i kept thinking how much better the baz luhrmann version was. so i rented it and i still really like it. it's a good production. what does everybody else think of it?
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oakmanc234

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May 02, 2003, 08:31:50 PM
Luhrmann's version is brilliant. Truly excellent. Acting, sound, fury, emotion, design, all top notch. At least thats how I see it.
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Cecil

#2
May 02, 2003, 08:55:37 PM
same here. truly brilliant. i have not seen strictly ballroom yet. how is it?

Jeremy Blackman

#3
May 02, 2003, 10:43:32 PM
Strictly Ballroom is boring.

I love Romeo + Juliet. Just look how many modernized Shakespeare movies it has inspired. Great great stuff.. mmm.. I should buy that DVD...

Although... Claire Danes really disappointed me. Natalie Portman would have been perfect for the role. (they thought she was too young... pfft...)

Ernie

#4
May 02, 2003, 11:10:09 PM
I want to see it again...I remember fucking loving it...the energy and everything. And how can you not love "love fool", that is the best song ever...I love how they put it in there.

I don't like Moulin Rouge though. It's just way too damn much for me,, you know? Too cartoonish.

RegularKarate

#5
May 03, 2003, 12:55:33 AM
I just saw it in the theaters and I remember hating it.

Though, I was going through my "I'm sick of all this bullshit" stage at the time and it came around during the peak of it and was just too much.

cowboykurtis

#6
May 03, 2003, 01:07:17 AM
after all the rave reviews of moulin rouge i buckled down and watched it -- ive tried watching the film 3 times and cant get passed the first 30 mintues. i think baz is an unbelievale visual director. i think his style seems to fit the stories he tells -- i just can't get into his films.
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oakmanc234

#7
May 03, 2003, 02:03:06 AM
I was aggravated by all the silly 'hyper comedy' in the first few acts of 'Moulin Rouge' at first until I realised how great a tool it is for making the later drama a lot more upsetting in comparison. The tragedy/emotion hit a lot harder. If the film was straight throughout it wouldn't have been as powerful.
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Ghostboy

#8
May 03, 2003, 02:27:47 AM
I actually think Romeo + Juliet holds the record for the most times I've actually paid to go and watch a movie. Which is five. The reason being that I was fifteen when it came out and the overwraught emotion of it all appealed to me enormously. Plus the girl I dug at the time was totally into it, so I went to see it with her as much as I could. Nothing ever came of it. But I still like the movie a whole lot. I love all of Baz's stuff, actually. Over the top, but he pulls it off.

Redlum

#9
May 03, 2003, 08:07:46 AM
Good thought on Natalie Portman playing Juliet, JB. She (like a lot of other things) is completely wasted in the teenage romance in Star Wars.

This thread reminds me how much of a damn injustice it was that Baz wasn't nominated for best director for MR.
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Alethia

#10
May 03, 2003, 10:14:56 AM
i remember really liking it as well, but im not sure if i like it better than zefferelli's.  maybe i should watch it again, it's been a while...

Redlum

#11
May 03, 2003, 10:26:15 AM
Quote from: ewardi remember really liking it as well, but im not sure if i like it better than zefferelli's.  maybe i should watch it again, it's been a while...

Yeah. Hmm, I kind of preffered the traditional sword fights.
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USTopGun47

#12
May 22, 2003, 02:01:23 PM
I hate Baz Luhrman and his production of Romeo and Juliet.  Too much and too flashy.  Just because it's contemporary doesn't mean its that original.  How in depth is the sword idea really?  It's all cheap eye candy to me.   :evil:
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godardian

#13
May 22, 2003, 02:08:19 PM
Quote from: USTopGun47I hate Baz Luhrman

I second that. Being hyper and overexcitable does not a fresh or innovative director make. I look at Luhrmann's films, and Guy Ritchie's, and just think they have short attention spans and little flair for (or knowledge of) composition, performances, mood, or pacing. Take a Ritalin and study up, guys!
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#14
May 22, 2003, 02:47:42 PM
I've never seen Baz Lurhmann's version of Romeo and Juliet and part of me really doesn't want to at all. First off, the perfect version of Romeo and Juliet made film is in Franco Zeffirelli's version from 1968. That movie just serves as basic memory for me in imagining these characters. I will never forget the film and now that I think of it, I should definitely buy the dvd. Also, even though I liked Moulin Rouge for its adventurousness and felt it was a good touch to the musical to make up for the lack of dancing talent in the stars, I am cautious against seeing this made Shakespearean where it seems like a wrong fit in every way.

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