Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet

*but not costume! but these were all anachronistic as well ie no togas in julius caesar etc.

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theater is so wierd; more than any other artform the blueprint for performance is totally incomplete (ok well jazz standards too)

Shakespearian texts don't offer a blueprint for performance because they're not designed for performance, thoughmaybe? Beckett gives pretty strict directions, after all.

The Priest's Crucifix backpiece was a nice touch.

Isn't it that playwrights in Shakespeare's day weren't writing for multiple companies who could be producing the work anywhere, but for a specific troupe they'd be interacting with at the time of production?

plain as day!

Yeah, exactly. I think what I actually meant by this was somethng like: 'The texts we call Shakespeare's Plays are records of performance, transcribed and printed for reading', but yeah, what you said.

i have a real soft spot for this movie

I've never seen it, but Leo was way hotter as a downy androgyne than now.

i like the idea that there is a difference between people who saw this and knew what florida was, so that it felt like a "modernizing" production, and people who saw this but really had no idea about florida and so the setting was as imaginary as Verona had been to shsksp's contemporaries.

least favorite movie of all time

(Luhrmann is gay, right?)
― Gravel Puzzleworth

he's not gay; i think his wife is his production designer.
― Amateur(ist)

Baz Luhrmann is like all the worst qualities of gay males without any of the redeeming qualities.

wait, I thought that was me!

i have a softspot for this movie too but it took me a while. was expecting too much when i first saw it, so i was disappointed.

young leo + young claire was great

baz has only made 4 films. that's kinda weird, no?

that pace accommodates his Kubrick-for-ADD-sufferers vision

um, guys, i own that movie. why don't you all come over and we'll watch it and reminisce about high school?

catherine martin (luhrman's wife) is the reason his movies look so good.

i think danes is really annoying in this movie, but it's one of my favorite leo performances.

so glad u like this movie tz, i thought i would be the only one

I suspect I wd prefer the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (which really is good)

if you are fucking with me i will punch u
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uhhh im the one that revived it homie

maybe it was 'ironic'?

never, i totally dig on this movie

will ride for this all day tbh

totally didn't realize paul rudd was in this

Anyway let's anticapate UNTITLED ALEXANDER PROJECT!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:01 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

lol

love this movie

really fantastic production design

yes!!

more haters need to come out and express their hate for this amazingly hateable movie

it's like the worst music video ever made or something

i hate this.

prefer the comic

in theory baz luhrmann's other movies could also be the worst movie ever made

but I am never going to watch them

you are the donk of baz luhrmann

Strictly Ballroom is actually pretty good.

i'm quite amazed to hear that Luhrmann is not gay.

He was, one understands, gay before the marriage. And still declines to identify as straight.

He was, one understands, gay before the marriage. And still declines to identify as straight.

Actually I find this radically defensible.

Which means I am all the worst qualities of gay males without any of the good ones.

Baz is the Tom Robinson of Aussie auteurs

i like the idea that there is a difference between people who saw this and knew what florida was, so that it felt like a "modernizing" production, and people who saw this but really had no idea about florida and so the setting was as imaginary as Verona had been to shsksp's contemporaries

I know where Florida is, motherfucker.

Strictly Ballroom is actually pretty good.

cosign, easily my fave of his movies

Moulin Rouge! has some great set pieces but doesn't hang together for me.

I suspect I wd prefer the Ethan Hawke Hamlet (which really is good)

― Dr Morbius,

omg gtfo

It is!

it is pretty good

what a great film
ages well
time to rewatch