[ SECRET POST #4748 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4748 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

I like modern takes done right. I've yet to see a modern take of Romeo and Juliet done right, though. They aren't supposed to be romantic or an ideal romance. Romeo was just in love with someone else at the beginning of the play. It is about the families and the feud, but we aren't supposed to think Romeo and Juliet are true love and would have ended up happily ever after if it weren't for their families. If it weren't for their families, they probably would have gotten over their crush quickly and moved on to other people.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I think we are meant to think that without their families, they wouldn't have ended up dead, and I think we're also meant to think that their approach to the family rivalry was significantly healthier than their parents'. I think the play's point was that, whether it was true love or not, love is still better (and less costly) than hate. Their families set aside their feud at the end because of them, the example of their love and the horror of their deaths. So they are sort of held up as an ideal to an extent.

[philstar22]

This is true, but every modern take I've seen portrays them as true love, meant to be, only ones for each other, every relationship should be judged against theirs romantic. Which is not what they are at all and changes the focus and point of the play.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like the Baz Luhrmann adaptation actually did a good job, however much people like to rag on it. Partly because it lifted the play pretty much whole and entire, and just updated the setting around it, but also because the focus was on the feud and how it just destroyed everything around it. Claire Danes as Juliet in particular.