Monday, April 20, 2020
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I find it really funny that Juliet is so practical and smart but she falls for Romeo who doesn't match her in terms of intelligence. They kind of remind me of April and Andy from Parks and Rec. There's a similar smart girl-dumb guy dynamic and they get married really soon.
ReplyDelete-Deborah Majowka
Ha! Thats a very entertaining connection! It’s a common thing in Shakespeare for the women (Portia, Lady M, Rosalind, all the women in Love’s Labor’s Lost, maybe Kate, Imogen, Desdemona, Beatrice, Cleopatra, ) to be miles ahead of the men.
DeleteHaving watched the Leonardo Di Caprio movie (my mom was a fan of young Leo way back when), I wanted to make a comment on the Director's choice of the balcony scene. Rereading, "Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;" the Director sets the balcony scene on her trellis overlooking her swimming pool "baptism." The love scene is filmed underwater as Romeo tries to hide from the Nurse and in the movie a security guard comes to check on Juliet. It's interesting that you say love at first sight is nice when some might say it's shallow, especially since Romeo is still in love with Rosalind and only goes to the Capulet party to get over his misfortune in love. I thought the movie was an interesting modern take almost along the lines of Fiennes' Coriolanus (modern day, war zone theme, fast paced, pumping music, etc.)
ReplyDeleteThank! Matthew Morelli
I totally think love at first sight could be shallow but the language shakespeare gives to Juliet and Romeo makes me feel like it is not in this case!
Deleteit probably comes from Shakespeare’s text itself — Juliet says her love is “boundless as the ocean” so I bet the director was inspired by that line (which he also cut by the way!)
ReplyDeleteShakespeare language is so fascinating and loving... Yet still little confusing but this is why i miss this class so much bruh! But Juliet is so smart for a 13 young old and falls in love with Romeo who is just different or street smart. Question: Why is Shakespeare trying to show love between two young children instead of adults.
ReplyDeleteThe death of young people is EXTRA tragic, and one of this points in the play is the way old feuds carry on to the younger generation who don’t even know what all the fighting is about! Also Mercutio i STILL find confusing and need footnotes for so you are not alone!
DeleteI love the device of the overheard soliloquy but that he actually reveals that he was listening. It provides such a sweet moment and a vulnerability that paves the way or their very quick-to-get-there talks of marriage. It also allows the audience to be in on something unknown to the character and instead of how it's done in other plays where the character who is listening concocts a self-serving plot, Romeo gets all excited and shows himself. It's such a warming scene to watch and I can't help but smile whenever I watch it.
ReplyDeleteThey still seem too young to be this smart and articulate BUT whatever.
This is a great point about the irony of the soliloquy that is NOT SOLO
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ReplyDeleteA note on Juliet vs Romeo’s metaphors, when she says
ReplyDelete“I would have thee gone,
And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty”,
Juliet’s metaphors are cute and a little dark; they actually go quite well in concept with Romeo’s opening lines of the play
“O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms”
Both intertwine passion with violence, which I found interesting. It reminded me of a very mild version of the “sexualized violence” theme we see in Macbeth.
Ah this is a GREAT POINT! Sex and Violence linked again!
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ReplyDeleteI love that Juliet is a very practical, philosophical and calculated thinker. This makes me very happy. Another strong woman in the world of Shakespeare. Her role feels incredibly important because she’s an exception from the traditional portrayal of women in love in stories, movies, etc...
Shakespeare is very good with women I think — he has PILES of very strong ones: Lady M, Volumina, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Titania,
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