One Week!
Or 7 days. Whichever!
Also. Guys. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But seriously, I'm so excited for this I can barely stand it. Click below to have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...#!
ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET.
I know, yet another adaption. Zefferelli did it. Lurhman did it. Now this gent director by the name of Julian Fellowes is making his mark.
You know, it's a funny thing. When I was younger, I absolutely abhored R + J. I didn't view it as a love story. I didn't like Romeo. I didn't like Juliet. Even though I was at that age where most teen girls were totally swooning over one of the arguably most loved Shakesperian works of all time, it never did much for me.
Fast forward to now. I'm in my mid-twenties, I've had a few serious relationships (two at roughly four years a pop, to be exact) and I've learned a few things about love, growing up, sacrifice, responsibility, and the likes. Which I suppose now is what has given me a greater appreciation for stories like Romeo and Juliet.
Do I think that R + J was meant to portray two kids who were destined to love each other forever and always? Of course not. They were star-crossed, after all. It's a story about teenagers. It's a story about youth. And when I really think on it, and think about how fantastically screwed-up young love can make you when you're smitten and vulnerable and totally caught up in those teenage-feelings, I believe that Shakespeare actually did some justice in capturing just utterly insane young love can be.
Spoiler: they both die at the end.
Also. Guys. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But seriously, I'm so excited for this I can barely stand it. Click below to have a look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...#!
ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET ROMEO AND JULIET.
I know, yet another adaption. Zefferelli did it. Lurhman did it. Now this gent director by the name of Julian Fellowes is making his mark.
You know, it's a funny thing. When I was younger, I absolutely abhored R + J. I didn't view it as a love story. I didn't like Romeo. I didn't like Juliet. Even though I was at that age where most teen girls were totally swooning over one of the arguably most loved Shakesperian works of all time, it never did much for me.
Fast forward to now. I'm in my mid-twenties, I've had a few serious relationships (two at roughly four years a pop, to be exact) and I've learned a few things about love, growing up, sacrifice, responsibility, and the likes. Which I suppose now is what has given me a greater appreciation for stories like Romeo and Juliet.
Do I think that R + J was meant to portray two kids who were destined to love each other forever and always? Of course not. They were star-crossed, after all. It's a story about teenagers. It's a story about youth. And when I really think on it, and think about how fantastically screwed-up young love can make you when you're smitten and vulnerable and totally caught up in those teenage-feelings, I believe that Shakespeare actually did some justice in capturing just utterly insane young love can be.
Spoiler: they both die at the end.
Published on August 24, 2013 12:26
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