Shakespeare and Leo Deo
So I decided to watch the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann, because it seemed slightly more interesting than anther adaption filmed at some point before I was born(not that I dont love old movies…Hitchcock all the way). I’d seen bits and pieces of this movie on TV before but had the language not given it away, I would never had thought that it had anything to do with Shakespeare. In fact the language is the only part of this movie that seems even a bit Elizabeathen, but then you have famous actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes delivering them so the entire movie balances out to a pretty original performance.
I guess seeing actors I knew in the film made it more interesting and the setting was also pretty different. Although I was confused from time to time with the half desert half modern suburb setting thing that happened during those random and chaotic car chase scenes, it definitely put a spin on the typical interpretations of Shakespeare’s work.
