Hey guys, what's going on?
We have some good news for you... WE ARE BACK!!! :D (even if you think that these are not good news, please don't break our hearts...)
Ok, like we said on the first post this blog is focused on cinema and our english teacher suggested two themes for this week: the Elizabethan era, and the contemporaneity of Shakespeare. So, limited to that two options, we looked at one another and our eyes just said "We are not going to write about 'ellaborated' (=horrible) hairstyles". So, here we are, writing about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Our teacher showed us a part of the movie "Romeo + Juliet" (1996), but even without knowing if we liked that "parts" (we were confused...), we were curious about the rest of it, and after a romantic lunch, we went to Rodrigo's house (we're not going to tell you the address!!!!), and we just watched the whole movie.
The first thing we want to tell you about this movie, is that: DON'T WATCH IT!!!!
We are kidding, actually, although we didn't like the effects, the "Movie Maker transitions" and the excess of stupidity in some scenes, we really enjoyed the movie, and, from 0 to 10, we would give it a 7,49999999(9).
Actually, we forgot how to write a film review, so we decided to write our opinion and express it the best way we could.
The first good thing about this movie, is Claire Danes, a great, an amazing and wonderful... actress!
The second positive aspect about the movie was the fact they challenged themselves to use the original script, and even if it sometimes got to ridiculous (gangsters speaking on such a "polite" english...), it made the whole movie much more interesting! And we liked the way they used the "chorus" from the original script, as a newscast...
The third positive aspect we will mention, before we start highlighting more negative aspects, is the fact that even using the original script, Baz Luhrmann managed to bring this story to a different time... Instead of having a plot situated on a far (far, far.....) away time, like in the original script, this plot is situated on modern times, and the rivalry between the House of Montague, and the House of Capulet, is represented as gangs quarrel, with everything related to Mafia, the guns (as a metaphor for the "swords"), the cars, etc.
On the bad side, we noticed that sometimes, as it happens in our blog, the humour gets too excessive (look at the image above...), and this takes the credibility away... And don't forget everything we said before starting to highlight the positive aspects...
But, in spite of that, we enjoyed the movie and there was never a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
See you later, you hater! :D
(P.S: The only purpose of this picture is showing that we did watch the movie, even if this text couldn't prove it...)
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