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Summary: The Best Movie Version of Romeo and Juliet Yet
Review: Romeo and Juliet has been remade over and over on film, but this version with Olivia Hussey as Juliet is the one that embodies the play as classically as possible. The sets appear authentic, filmed in Europe, and the actors close to the age and description as the play. Olivia Hussey as Juliet is lovely and sweet, just as we imagine Juliet to be.
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Summary: Romeo & Juliet: Love at First Sight
Review: Sure I only watched this because it was assigned for English, but I ended up liking it. Most other 15 year-olds don't like Shakespeare, but this is really good! I liked that they had the orignal Shakespearian language. I haven't seen the newer version of Romeo & Juliet, so I can't compare the two. I really recommend this movie to anyone. I sure would watch it again, even if it wasn't mandatory! It's an instant classic, and a must have for anyone. You wil love this movie. My parents love it too, it brings back a lot of memories for them (yes, good ones). All age groups would like this, except maybe ones younger than my age group (mid-teens). You won't regret getting (or at least renting it) so come on people, give this a try! Enjoy!!!!!
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Summary: Romeo..Benvolio.. Yum
Review: The actors who play Romeo and Benvolio are gorgeous!!Olivia Hussey is pretty, but she CANNOT act.
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Summary: Beautiful and amazing.
Review: There are few things on this planet that bring me joy and at the same time sadness. Romeo and Juliet is one of them. No other movie besides this have I felt so much over fictinous characters in my entire life. I have been told and learned that love is beautiful and when you see your soulmate it is magical, but I learned myself what true love is. I wa so tied into this epic of a movie that I told myself it was real, this wasn't a movie. It felt real, as if I was watching it in live action not just on a screen. Everything was perfect in this movie. The clothing made it more realistic, the actors were selected as if by God for these parts, the music and the scenery. the scenery was just breath taking and made everything imaginable. If shakespeare as alive today, I think he would be very, very fond of this movie. In fact, I think he would love it and be very proud. Romeo and Juliet is a play which can be extorted in different ways to suit the directors need, Zeffirelli took this play and created a in-living-colour masterpeice. I am so jelous that my father, who was a freshman in high school when this came out, was able to on a field trip go to hollywood to see this in theaters. This is my favourite movie for many reasons, one of them being it makes me bawl so hard I practically melt away my face, it makes me understand love in a different view (i'm fifteen.) and I have fallen in love with Shakespeare's work. I think of Shakespeare is a shear genuis. How could someone think of a story like this? I know I couldn't, could you? I think the direct quite,"For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo." sums up everything perfectly.
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Summary: wonderful
Review: this is a wonderful adaptation of r&j. the differences are the setting in verona and the casting of kids to play, well, kids. especially olivia hussey. it's true. after watching this, i can't help but picture her everytime i think of juliet.
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Summary: Romeo + Juliet
Review: This is an excellent movie. This version of the famous storie could be the best version available. Utterably enjoyable!
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Summary: The Best!!!!!
Review: This is the greatest movie rendition of Romeo and Juliet I've ever seen. I'm 14 and I'm a HUGE fan of Shakespeare and this is the best! It has the original script. I've only noticed two or three errors. And the actors are young which makes it better than all the others!! Usually in movies of Romeo and Juliet you see twenty-five year old people playing them when Juliet is really only thirteen and Romeo sisxteen or seventeen. And there actually wonderful at portraying the Shakespearian languege and way of speaking. Unlike the modern version, where the actors are also fairly young. You can't understand a word they say. My little sisters and I were watching the modern version and they just kind of sat there. Eight year old Ashley didn't even pay attention to it and every once in a while the little one, Kristina, would ask me what a word meant, but I could tell she didn't get it and I didn't expect her to. She's only six. After we watched that I put this version in. Ashley had left, because by that time she'd seen enough of the modern one to get a sense that Romeo and Juliet was about two stereotypical, disobediant, teenagers with guns who didn't have a clue to what they were talking about, but Kristina stayed and she loved it! I was so surprised she understood it! The only things she asked me referring to this version was "Are they really naked?" and "What does wherefore mean?" (Which to those of you who don't know or think it means where, it doesn't mean where. It actually means why.) It's been over a month and she's STILL talking about it to everyone. It's a great movie. I recomend it to anyone and everyone.
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Summary: Zeffirelli's Quintessential Version! Every Aspect Excellent!
Review: This is THE must see version of Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli's 1968 masterpiece stars 17-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey with great music by Nino Rota. Filmed "on location" in Italy this version also has the fingerprints of the 1960s all over it, from moddish long hair, the debut of Michael York as Tybalt, John McEnery as Mercutio, the lush balcony scenes, the nude scene, and an emotional intensity throughout. McEnery brings just the right comic touch to the comi-tragedy and screenwriters Franco Brusati, Maestro D'Amico, and Zeffirelli keep true to Shakespeare with a take on the story that's easily accessible to a wide audience, thereby making this one of the most popular films of the '60s. Especially effective is the ambiguity of intent of the Tybalt-Mercutio duel, and the overall editing of dialogue just enough to keep it succinct and believable yet retain the poetic and philosophical virtuosity of the playwright's playwright. The music is used effectively and as it rises during the love scenes it's a manipulation that's an enhancement to rather than distraction from the emotion--a rare successful pull-off of this. And that balcony scene is extraordinary, the lush dark atmosphere, Romeo's giddiness, Juliet's beauty...I believed it. Milo O'Shea (who later played the Judge in "The Verdict") does a believable Friar Laurence and Robert Stephens (I)(with a long list of Shakespearian roles to his name) an intensely serious Prince of Verona. It's hard not to fall in love with Olivia (watch for her new film role as Mother Theresa). Some bits of trivia: Before 1968 Romeo and Juliet was not generally taught in US high schools and this film's popularity changed all that as most of you reading this had it in high school. Michael York turned down the role of Oliver in Love Story--one may read into this he felt it was a poor man's Romeo and Juliet...just a thought. Also Olivia Hussey briefly dated Prince Charles. And here's the clincher: Paul McCartney got the original offer to play Romeo. I'm glad he turned it down, as Whiting is perfect here. And for those who wonder, the story did not originate in historical fact, though one may wish it so. The story came from mythical legend starting in 5th century Greece, later evolving into "The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet" translated into English in 1562 by Arthur Brooke and originally written about 1530 by Luigi da Porto., 'til Shakespeare got a hold of it (circa 1594) and breathed into it the life that will last as long as humanity does most probably. This towers over the 1st film version with a 34-year-old Norma Shearer and a 43-year-old Leslie Howard, and as for the 1996 mess sorry guys; American accents, present day gang violence, over-the-top overacting, LA locales, and Leonard DiCaprio do not great Shakespearean tragedy make. This 1968 one is the one to see over and over.
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful
Review: This is the perfect Romeo & Juliet that could ever be made, in my humble opinion. It works together so well, and Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey have such chemistry that make it so *real* The location is so realistic for the story, and the music is wonderful, too. I can't get over it.
As a bonus, Leonard Whiting is the most gorgeous man ever..
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Summary: I Love This Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is so incredibally good. Its so much better than the Leondardo Dicaprio version. If you liked that one, youll love this!!!!!!!!
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