Jeffy's idea

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Anyone have any speculation on what Jeffy's "original, but close-minded" idea for keeping Mercutio out of the locker-room may have been?

Perhaps this is a Shakespearean inside-joke I don't get?

M Man

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M Man said:

Considering how violent the _original_ play is, and that Jeffy obviously read it, one shudders to think :)

I haven't R&J since HS myself. And I remember having a lot of trouble with the language, as Belle Book suggested might be the case. I've forgotten everything except the bare bones. Time to read it again.

Or is watching "Titanic" an adequate substitute? :-) :-) :-)

M Man

M Man wrote:

Sorry, I don't think watching "Titanic" is an adequate substitute, though the main plotline is a Romeo-and Juliet situation. A more adequate substitution would be watching either the 1960s movie starring Leonard Whiting as Romeo and Olivia Hussey as Juliet or watching the 1990s movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio (later in "Titanic") as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet. It can supplement your reading of the story, too.

Belle Book

I knew I didn't use enough :-) 's!!!

I was alluding to Sandi's essay, which had "Leonardo taking a swim with his clothes on". I ASSUME that referred to "Titanic"?

I found an edition in the library with rather extensive help on the language. I don't think I'll need a celluloid (or magnetic tape) additive to my literary diet. :-) Thanks anyway.

(And I'm glad you liked "I May Go Pop")

M Man

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MMan37x wrote:

Oh, no no no. The balconey scene was changed to a pool scene in the movie.

Some things shouldn't be completely updated like Romeo and Juliet was. Not unless you want an anal-retentive chick shouting in her mind at the screen, "Call a goddamn ambulance, you idiots!" during a major character's death scene.

Marie

I guess Sandi gets to more movies than I do. "Titanic" is the only DiCaprio movie I've ever seen.

Does DiCaprio swim fully-clothed in ALL his movies? :-)

M Man

In article , [email] (MMan37x) wrote:

In Baz Lurhmann's wretched "Romeo + Juliet" movie, the balcony scene takes place when Claire Danes and Leonardo De Caprio are waist-deep in a swimming pool. This is probably what Sandi was referring to.

I thought the 90's R+J movie was awful, not because of Danes & DeCaprio, but because I thought the whole setup was wrong. The best retelling of that story in a modern setting is still "West Side Story," even though it's dated in a lot of ways.

Steve Cross

On 29 Mar 2001 12:41:25 GMT, [email] (Jordan S. Bassior) wrote:

One would not be going too far out on a limb to surmise that it involves baseball bats or a pickup truck and a logging chain, especially if in his tiny little mind, he somehow got the notion that Mercutio was gay....

A voice crying in the wilderness ([email] (Christopher Morton)) was heard to say in : W o o ! W o o ! A l l _ a b o a r d _ t h e _ s p o i l e r _ e x p r e s s !

Not to put down the notion that Jeffy is homophobic (which actually ties in to a fanfiction I've been working on), but I can't see him (or the other two J's) going in for genuine violence - I see them setting up an elaborate trap of the bucket-over-the-door variety that would inevitably backfire. They're squeamish about violence - their confrontation of Mr. O'Neill in _Groped by an Angel_ led to an impromptu 'rap' session, not a lynching. (And how tough can anyone who caves to Mr O'Neill _be_?)

-Mark Steese

In article , [email] (Mark Steese) writes:

I haven't seen this episode, but in "Romeo + Juliet"(Baz Luhrmann, 1996), which stars dicaprio and claire danes, mercutio is a black transvestite, and what he says about his friendship and love for romeo is given a new meaning probably how he got the idea?

In article , MMan37x wrote:

I can't speculate on what the idea might of been, but the "close-minded"ness comes from not wanting a possibly gay man in the locker room.

Yeah, I understood *why* he wanted Mercutio out of the locker-room, but Jeffy's "original idea" seems to be about *how*. It doesn't seem there are too many options - post a guard; lock the door and deny Mercutio a key; beat him up if he comes in. Not very original.

M Man

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