I WANT to be excited about this movie.....
I really do want to be excited for this movie. And I'll go see it either way. But I can't find the point of making ANOTHER version. The original and the modern remake were both beautifully made.
shareI agree. However, I would condone making a remake *if* they have something original to add. Don't get me wrong, Shakespeare's work is excellent the way it is, but every once a awhile, classic stories need another take. Let's take films like Troy (2004), Much Ado About Nothing (2012/13), or Anna Karenina (2012). All those films gave another, original approach to the story. Weather it is direction, tone, time, characterization or fate of protagonists, remakes need to update something, or there really is no use whatsoever to make them.
On topic, we all seen Romeo and Juliet many times, most of the times in original way the Shakespeare wrote it. Romeo + Juliet (1996) gave it another tone, though, putting it in modern days. But, all of these versions have schematized Shakespearean plot and order of events. For example, in all versions lovers die, and basically in the same way. Yes, that is how Shakespeare wrote it, but I'm sure even he wouldn't mind a version in which, either he, her or both do survive, even though if they don't end-up together. And even if they die, there are billion of other ways to make them die tragically as lovers (e.i. watch Last of Mochicans and/or Harper's Island).
Other than that, family authority is on much lower basis this year, making young audience alienated by the fact they *have* to listen to their parents on matters such as love. Also, families do not have, neither ever had, any deeper reason for mutual hatred. Giving at least one of four parents tragic background and explaination for their behaviour, would immensly improve the 'villains' status of parents. Also, not all need to be the same (example; out of four parents, let one be really evil, one tragic, one permissive and one scared from their spouse).
Third thing, and most implausible one, is that 'one day' thing. Nobody can love so deeply during only one day. Sure, one can fall in love or at least affection during the day, but being prepared to die without someone? No, that takes time. So, tip to next remake writer, give them time.
Personally, I don't care weather next version will be (and it will be, we know it) in original time or contemporary (or in whichever perion meanwhile), and I don't care. But these symbolic characters need some real-life basis and individual character development for a love story to reach it's full potential and too feel their love, loss and tragedy.
They survived in Gnomeo and Juliet, but that movie was. well, not so good.
But Gandalf! I don't want to be a Hobbit~~
I agree. However, I would condone making a remake *if* they have something original to add. Don't get me wrong, Shakespeare's work is excellent the way it is, but every once a awhile, classic stories need another take. Let's take films like Troy (2004), Much Ado About Nothing (2012/13), or Anna Karenina (2012). All those films gave another, original approach to the story. Weather it is direction, tone, time, characterization or fate of protagonists, remakes need to update something, or there really is no use whatsoever to make them.I honestly don't have a problem with them making another story exactly like the original, and in the same setting. But I also look forward to versions that have something different in them. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there should be no reason why there can't be room for both. The british BBC comes up with a version of Jane Eyre every 5 years or so. I've seen several versions of Wuthering Heights and other Austen classics- I think it's just the usual thing for a classic, to be retold plenty of times. I'm not saying they can't bring something new to the table, only that we shouldn't be closed to something just because it doesn't go that route. There was a BBC version of Romeo and Juliet in the early eighties, right after the Olivia Hussey version in '69. It's 2013 now, I don't think it's too soon for them to come up with the same version of a timeless classic.
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Hear, hear! After all, it's the same logic as seeing different stage productions of the same play--no two are ever quite alike. Every new retelling brings something different to the table--that's why I LIKE different adaptations of the same literary source.
You mentioned Jane Eyre. Look how many versions have been made previously...but the 2011 version was acclaimed as one of the best yet. (And take it from me, it is.)
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Where did you learn this?
Observing people around me and also tv. Of course, this does not apply to all families nor all cultures. But, I think that majority of western teens would rebel against parents when faced with them forbidding them being with someone. I know many cases when that someone was actually a crook and they still couldn't get them apart. I'm not saying parents wouldn't try, nor I'm saying some of them wouldn't succeed, but most of the time it wouldn't be blind obedience like in Shakespeare's time, but rather loud verbal fights, escape tries, ''I hate you'' statements, ect.
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