am I the only one who really got into this move and was literally left almost puking by how awful the ending was. There
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a-martinbot — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 09:16 AM)
I don't see where you get that. Movies are allowed to alter the original story to be a better fit for the contemporary movie audience. In LOTR, many parts were trimmed, cut, altered, or expanded to create a better movie experience, and it is a masterpiece of the screen based on a book. Trimming the ending of Romeo and Juliet would've been a better fit for the screen. That was the peak of the movie and since everyone knew it was coming, that was what we were waiting to see. When it came, and was a disappointment, Lurhman made it even worse by sticking on useless material that detracted from the experience he had created. The story was completely about the lovers, not the families, and bringing them back in at the end was a waste and the silly montage was dumb just because one it felt like a chick flick all of a sudden and two it changed the feeling of the ending from tragedy to slightly heart warming knowing they were happy together which is not the feeling we were being led to in the final act of the movie.
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Amillennialist — 9 years ago(June 30, 2016 02:02 AM)
Lurhman made it even worse by sticking on useless material that detracted from the experience he had created. The story was completely about the lovers, not the families
That is utterly false. The entire point of
Romeo and Juliet
was the destructiveness of hate as evidenced by the Prologue and the Prince's closing lines, through which the Bard speaks:
"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;"
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"Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.
And I for winking at your discords too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."
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"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
The two fathers, whose primary purpose in life was to protect and nurture their children, end up destroying them.
If you remove that "useless ending," then you'll have a teenaged, soap opera-length, music video, but you won't have
Romeo and Juliet
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galaxyold11 — 10 years ago(March 18, 2016 08:39 AM)
Were you there, when it happened?.. I thought it was wonderful.
We were (pretty :)) fresh out of high school, class of 1995, the next summer had ended and we were -just- hanging around (still, hehe), wondering WTH are we going to do with our lives - a full year had passed and many moved on to colleges and moved away
Aanyway, back then we were still going to the movies (there wasn't, this, trend of so many bad movies released all of the time - or, I suppose, our standards had to be lower..:))
So, it was DiCaprio, Danes (AND the rest!), growing up together - with us - and seeing them on screen was great!.. The picture, didn't really matter; the experience, awesome. Yeah, had to be there. Cool tragedy!! :)) -
anthropo — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 05:13 PM)
Nope. Wasn't there when it happened, as you say. Didn't see it first run in the movies. Saw it years later. I'm a big fan of Leo's and think it's a terrible film. But to be honest, I think Baz is a terrible director in general.
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VBeretta — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 06:52 PM)
As someone who was stunned (and still is) by the ending, I can only disagree.
Yes, of course I knew how Shakespeare's drama ended, and I already saw Zeffirelli's version (which cannot be compared, in intent and purpose, to this one). However Juiliet's brief crying and how she looks directly at the camera before shooting herself to me everyhing was just perfect.
So was the closing scene, in the bleak early morning light. And Captain Prince's speech: "Everyone is punished!" Again, I knew the ending from the original text, but how Baz Luhrman transposed it into modern era was, again just perfect.
If anything, the ending still is, to me, the perfect closure to a perfect contemporary adaptation. -
shopgirl1293 — 9 years ago(April 23, 2016 09:14 PM)
I'm not sure how else it was supposed to end. I was like 12 when I first saw Romeo and Juliet and hated the fact that Romeo had to die. I didn't get the whole part where he and Juliet were supposed to die. But of course now I get it. But being disappointed in the way it happened? Not sure what could have been changed as Romeo drank the poison, which didn't leave much for Juliet to take so her only option was the gun. I don't know, it's been a long while since I saw the movie. And saying you almost puked afterwards because of the ending is, well pathetic. It's not like it was real life. It's just a movie.
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Harbinger_3781 — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 10:55 AM)
Well, I've harbored dislike for Shakespeare since first time I got the concept of R & J, even after understanding the background in which he created this tragedy(now I often refer to the man as 'Billy Shakey').
If you were speaking about the ending that stems from the original(pretty sure you were) unless you can travel back to the time Billy wrote the original stuff and convince him to change that, I don't think the ending's gonna change much from both of 'em dead. Romeo and Juliet ain't Hallmark or PixL, mate. -
fourballoons — 9 years ago(August 01, 2016 08:16 PM)
Actually, I LOVED the ending it was perfect and very powerful in my eyes! I actually found the rest of the film to be a bit lacklustre/boring, but when the ending came along (last 10-15 minutes or so), it brought the film up a notch, in my opinion. I thought it was well done.