list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/William_Shakespeare_s_Romeo_Juliet/93902/default.aspx Title: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Year: 1996
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Plot: The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of West Side Story when they form rival gangs. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but after he realizes that Juliet (Claire Danes) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst. He relies heavily -- and with serious consequences -- on his rebel gender-bender of a friend, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau Jr.), and Father (not Friar) Lawrence (Pete Postlethwaite) for protection and support. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris (Paul Rudd). It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet 's temporary tomb. This time, though, the turf and the weapon of choice have taken a turn toward the surreal. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:15:36 GMTWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet1996Baz LuhrmannThe classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director <a href="/players/P___100353/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Baz Luhrmann</a> to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Jets and Sharks of <a href=/films/37844/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>West Side Story</a> when they form rival gangs. Romeo (<a href="/players/P____18926/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Leonardo DiCaprio</a>) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins, but after he realizes that Juliet (<a href="/players/P___195650/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Claire Danes</a>) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst. He relies heavily -- and with serious consequences -- on his rebel gender-bender of a friend, Mercutio (Harold Perrineau Jr.), and Father (not Friar) Lawrence (<a href="/players/P____57436/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Pete Postlethwaite</a>) for protection and support. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris (Paul Rudd). It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet 's temporary tomb. This time, though, the turf and the weapon of choice have taken a turn toward the surreal. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide95Tag Target (>10)75153http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t97294fhyhw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/William_Shakespeare_s_Romeo_Juliet/93902/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Friends_of_Foreign_Flicks/_Australia_and_all_things_Australian/591/37755/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: indieabby88
Post To: Friends of Foreign Flicks
Post Date: 11/30/2008 2:05:10 AM
Body: I just saw "Australia" with the fam tonight. Not a bad movie, considering the dreck that Baz Luhrmann has put out previously. Actually, when you compare it to "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet" it's pretty great. But, in the context of general cinema, only pretty good. My point (and I do have one) is that while watching this movie, I noticed many many references to other (better) Australian movies, which in turn got me thinking about how much I love Australian cinema. It was more or less my introduction to independent film, so it holds a pretty special place in my heart. I wanted to know if anyone here had particular favorite Aussie films and/or directors. Mine will always be Peter Weir and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Every time I've watched it with someone, it's been a crazy experience, from the first time I saw it with my parents to a few months ago, when I watched it with my roommate and we both ended up yelling at the screen.
]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:05:10 GMTindieabby88Friends of Foreign Flicks11/30/2008 2:05:10 AMI just saw "Australia" with the fam tonight. Not a bad movie, considering the dreck that Baz Luhrmann has put out previously. Actually, when you compare it to "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet" it's pretty great. But, in the context of general cinema, only pretty good. My point (and I do have one) is that while watching this movie, I noticed many many references to other (better) Australian movies, which in turn got me thinking about how much I love Australian cinema. It was more or less my introduction to independent film, so it holds a pretty special place in my heart. I wanted to know if anyone here had particular favorite Aussie films and/or directors. Mine will always be Peter Weir and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." Every time I've watched it with someone, it's been a crazy experience, from the first time I saw it with my parents to a few months ago, when I watched it with my roommate and we both ended up yelling at the screen. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/26/37686.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 11/26/2008 3:01:22 PM
Body: I might as well get this out of the way first: I loved Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia. I was on the fence about seeing this, especially once I heard about the 165 minute running time, but I gave in and boy was I glad. It’s a sprawling epic with nods to classic films of the 30s and 40s, and besides featuring the eye candy combo of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, it also introduces Brandon Walters, who is possibly the cutest child actor alive. If there was some sort of scientific cuteness scale, he’d break it. Despite the beautiful vistas and the sweeping storyline, not everyone is loving it. After the press screening I attended, a bunch of us gathered on the street outside the theater to debate reactions. It was oddly dividing: people either hated it or loathed it. I’d spent part of the week with a friend from Australia, and he’d denounced it as cheesy, because they have two Aussies in the lead roles: Jackman doing a faux “crikey!” Australian accent, while Kidman actually has a faux British accent. He said most of his friends in Sydney felt the same way. Here in the States, Australia’s detractors are saying a lot of the same things. So, I’m taking the top five critiques of Australia and refuting them. I might not be able to change the critics’ minds, but I’m hoping you’ll at least give the movie a chance in theaters. Spoilers ahead! Somewhere Over The Rainbow “Umpteen choruses of “Over the Rainbow,” the Wizard of Oz tune that is sung whenever a tear needs jerking.” Peter Travers - Rolling Stone “You’ll also get a bit tired of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and references to Oz again and again.” Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper There’s a pretty strong effort by Luhrmann to link Australia to The Wizard of Oz, and not just with this song. However, I have to take issue with these two critics. Maybe they don’t remember the movie that well, but it’s not sung often. Kidman first performs a comical rendition of the song because she can’t remember the words to it, and later Nullah sees it on the screen, basking in the glow of his first movie ever. It is played on a harmonica several times, but that’s because it becomes the song linking Lady Ashley and Nullah together. When he tells her, “I’ll sing you to me,” he means with that song. When he inherits the harmonica from the ill-fated accountant, of course he’s bound to play it –a nd yes, your heart is made of black ice if you don’t feel a twinge or two whenever he does. The Running Time “Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth)…” Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly “When this storyline is resolved at only ninety minutes, the film gets another fresh hour out of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1941…” Matt Goldberg - Collider Yes, we get it: the movie is long. But where was it ever written that films should always be two hours long at max? If I’m being entertained and I’m still drawn in by the story, then I don’t mind how long it stretches on. Although I’m not lobbying for a director’s cut version of Australia that rivals Che in length, I certainly didn’t find the movie to be too long. Yes, there are separate story arcs throughout, but even when the movie is over, you’re still wondering what’s going on the the main characters. Especially Nullah, who heads off into the Outback on walkabout with his mystical grandfather. It’s Sappy “You may find yourself drowning in high-fructose Aussie corn syrup…” Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune “Australia is what you get when the film projector overheats and the only thing that comes out is pure corn syrup.” Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com Can you name one Baz Luhrmann film that isn’t sappy and overtly saccharine at times? Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge… they’ve all had those moments, so why would Australia be any different? It’s a sweeping epic fantasy love story, and if you can name any massive romance movie for me that doesn’t have even the tiniest bit of schmaltz in it, then I’ll buy your movie popcorn for a month. Several main characters get murdered in this story, aboriginal children are ripped from their homes, and the Japanese bomb Darwin, including a mission full of kids. If a filmmaker can’t balance that out with loads of happier moments and some cinematic sugar, then you’d just wind up with a depressing mess. You look for those cheesy moments to balance the mood, and even though in Luhrmann’s case you can see them coming from a mile away, they’re just as welcome. The Special Effects Are Bad “The CGI sequences – the cattle stampede, the Japanese bombing raid – that look so glaringly, absurdly fake” Tom Maurstad - The Dallas Morning News “The BLUE SCREEN EFFECTS WERE DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. I felt like I was watching 10,000 B.C.” - Kevin McCarthy - Big Daddy Kev’s Movie Reviews This was one of the big ones that people were talking about outside my screening, and I also wonder if these same people saw Moulin Rouge. That didn’t really look like a nightclub in the middle of Paris, it looked stylized and cartoonishly fake. Likewise, Australia goes to great lengths to create scenes that aren’t meant to look “fake” exactly, but they’re meant to imitate the style of films from the 30s and 40s that often featured fake sunsets and night skies. Luhrmann is creating fantasy here, so why would he try going for photorealism? It’s meant to look larger than life, grand, and completely garish and fake at times. You’ve taken the twister into Oz, and it’s not meant to look like a documentary that was shot on location. Besides, the CGI attack on Darwin, which many people say looks fake, looked pretty darn realistic to me. It looked better than Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, and that wasn’t so shabby either. Maybe everyone should just go back to using miniatures so people will stop talking about CGI. Nicole Kidman Can’t Act “Why won’t Nicole Kidman’s face move?” Stephanie Zacharek - Salon “Think Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen, without the facial expressivity. Geoff Berkshire - Metromix Chicago These truly baffle me. I mean, Zacharek becomes so obsessed with Nicole Kidman’s face that she ends her review by talking about the nearly magical qualities of her ultrasmooth forehead. Either I didn’t pay enough attention to Kidman’s face or else it didn’t annoy me, but she had plenty of facial expressions to go around. She has looks that range from shock, to surprise, to anger, to adoration, to sadness… what do these people expect? No, she’s not as rubberfaced as Jim Carrey, but she certainly doesn’t look like a Botoxed angel made of alabaster. The last time I checked, this is the same Kidman who won an Academy Award for her role in The Hours. Do they think she’s had her facial muscles severed since then? I thought she did a bang-up job throughout the film, and yes, her face does indeed move quite a bit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:01:22 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/26/2008 3:01:22 PMI might as well get this out of the way first: I loved Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia. I was on the fence about seeing this, especially once I heard about the 165 minute running time, but I gave in and boy was I glad. It’s a sprawling epic with nods to classic films of the 30s and 40s, and besides featuring the eye candy combo of Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, it also introduces Brandon Walters, who is possibly the cutest child actor alive. If there was some sort of scientific cuteness scale, he’d break it. Despite the beautiful vistas and the sweeping storyline, not everyone is loving it. After the press screening I attended, a bunch of us gathered on the street outside the theater to debate reactions. It was oddly dividing: people either hated it or loathed it. I’d spent part of the week with a friend from Australia, and he’d denounced it as cheesy, because they have two Aussies in the lead roles: Jackman doing a faux “crikey!” Australian accent, while Kidman actually has a faux British accent. He said most of his friends in Sydney felt the same way. Here in the States, Australia’s detractors are saying a lot of the same things. So, I’m taking the top five critiques of Australia and refuting them. I might not be able to change the critics’ minds, but I’m hoping you’ll at least give the movie a chance in theaters. Spoilers ahead! Somewhere Over The Rainbow “Umpteen choruses of “Over the Rainbow,” the Wizard of Oz tune that is sung whenever a tear needs jerking.” Peter Travers - Rolling Stone “You’ll also get a bit tired of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and references to Oz again and again.” Tricia Olszewski - Washington City Paper There’s a pretty strong effort by Luhrmann to link Australia to The Wizard of Oz, and not just with this song. However, I have to take issue with these two critics. Maybe they don’t remember the movie that well, but it’s not sung often. Kidman first performs a comical rendition of the song because she can’t remember the words to it, and later Nullah sees it on the screen, basking in the glow of his first movie ever. It is played on a harmonica several times, but that’s because it becomes the song linking Lady Ashley and Nullah together. When he tells her, “I’ll sing you to me,” he means with that song. When he inherits the harmonica from the ill-fated accountant, of course he’s bound to play it –a nd yes, your heart is made of black ice if you don’t feel a twinge or two whenever he does. The Running Time “Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth)…” Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly “When this storyline is resolved at only ninety minutes, the film gets another fresh hour out of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1941…” Matt Goldberg - Collider Yes, we get it: the movie is long. But where was it ever written that films should always be two hours long at max? If I’m being entertained and I’m still drawn in by the story, then I don’t mind how long it stretches on. Although I’m not lobbying for a director’s cut version of Australia that rivals Che in length, I certainly didn’t find the movie to be too long. Yes, there are separate story arcs throughout, but even when the movie is over, you’re still wondering what’s going on the the main characters. Especially Nullah, who heads off into the Outback on walkabout with his mystical grandfather. It’s Sappy “You may find yourself drowning in high-fructose Aussie corn syrup…” Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune “Australia is what you get when the film projector overheats and the only thing that comes out is pure corn syrup.” Brandon Fibbs - BrandonFibbs.com Can you name one Baz Luhrmann film that isn’t sappy and overtly saccharine at times? Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge… they’ve all had those moments, so why would Australia be any different? It’s a sweeping epic fantasy love story, and if you can name any massive romance movie for me that doesn’t have even the tiniest bit of schmaltz in it, then I’ll buy your movie popcorn for a month. Several main characters get murdered in this story, aboriginal children are ripped from their homes, and the Japanese bomb Darwin, including a mission full of kids. If a filmmaker can’t balance that out with loads of happier moments and some cinematic sugar, then you’d just wind up with a depressing mess. You look for those cheesy moments to balance the mood, and even though in Luhrmann’s case you can see them coming from a mile away, they’re just as welcome. The Special Effects Are Bad “The CGI sequences – the cattle stampede, the Japanese bombing raid – that look so glaringly, absurdly fake” Tom Maurstad - The Dallas Morning News “The BLUE SCREEN EFFECTS WERE DOWNRIGHT AWFUL. I felt like I was watching 10,000 B.C.” - Kevin McCarthy - Big Daddy Kev’s Movie Reviews This was one of the big ones that people were talking about outside my screening, and I also wonder if these same people saw Moulin Rouge. That didn’t really look like a nightclub in the middle of Paris, it looked stylized and cartoonishly fake. Likewise, Australia goes to great lengths to create scenes that aren’t meant to look “fake” exactly, but they’re meant to imitate the style of films from the 30s and 40s that often featured fake sunsets and night skies. Luhrmann is creating fantasy here, so why would he try going for photorealism? It’s meant to look larger than life, grand, and completely garish and fake at times. You’ve taken the twister into Oz, and it’s not meant to look like a documentary that was shot on location. Besides, the CGI attack on Darwin, which many people say looks fake, looked pretty darn realistic to me. It looked better than Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor, and that wasn’t so shabby either. Maybe everyone should just go back to using miniatures so people will stop talking about CGI. Nicole Kidman Can’t Act “Why won’t Nicole Kidman’s face move?” Stephanie Zacharek - Salon “Think Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen, without the facial expressivity. Geoff Berkshire - Metromix Chicago These truly baffle me. I mean, Zacharek becomes so obsessed with Nicole Kidman’s face that she ends her review by talking about the nearly magical qualities of her ultrasmooth forehead. Either I didn’t pay enough attention to Kidman’s face or else it didn’t annoy me, but she had plenty of facial expressions to go around. She has looks that range from shock, to surprise, to anger, to adoration, to sadness… what do these people expect? No, she’s not as rubberfaced as Jim Carrey, but she certainly doesn’t look like a Botoxed angel made of alabaster. The last time I checked, this is the same Kidman who won an Academy Award for her role in The Hours. Do they think she’s had her facial muscles severed since then? I thought she did a bang-up job throughout the film, and yes, her face does indeed move quite a bit. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Re_Recast_ROMEO_AND_JULIET_1996/563/37371/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: batboy
Post To: Filmgaming
Post Date: 11/17/2008 11:39:18 AM
Body: [quote user="SkyPilot"] definetley get leanardo decapreo back as romeo also get kate back as well With Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Luhrmann reminded everyone that underneath the poetry, Shakespeare was as badass as they come. Recast Romeo + Juliet (1996) or your favorite Shakespeare movie. If you prefer the tragedies, I recommend seeing Roman Polanski's gritty, hallucinatory Macbeth, or Julie Taymor's Titus. I think my favorite Shakespeare comedy is Love's Labor's Lost, which Kenneth Branagh sets during WWII. Branagh stages it like a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, and replaces the traditional English folk songs with Frank Sinatra tunes. It's awesome. A t-shirt goes to the best recast, and the winner will be announced on Friday, Nov. 28. And by the way, Baz Luhrmann's Australia comes out on 11/26. Do you guys know anything about it? I mean, besides the fact that Hugh Jackman is frighteningly attractive with his shirt off? THE MONTAGUESLeonardo DiCaprio ... Romeo Dash Mihok ... Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) Jamie Kennedy ... Sampson (Montague thug) Zak Orth ... Gregory (Montague thug) Jesse Bradford ... Balthasar (Montague thug) Brian Dennehy ... Ted Montague (Romeo's dad) Christina Pickles ... Caroline Montague (Romeo's mom) THE CAPULETSClaire Danes ... Juliet John Leguizamo ... Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) Vincent Laresco ... Abra (Capulet thug) Paul Sorvino ... Fulgencio (Juliet's dad) Diane Venora ... Gloria (Juliet's mom) Miriam Margolyes ... Juliet's Nurse CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Harold Perrineau ... Mercutio (Romeo's friend who curses both houses) Pete Postlethwaite ... Father Laurence Paul Rudd ... Dave Paris (Governor's son, trying to marry Juliet) Vondie Curtis-Hall ... Captain Prince (the policeman) [/quote]
]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:39:18 GMTbatboyFilmgaming11/17/2008 11:39:18 AM[quote user="SkyPilot"] definetley get leanardo decapreo back as romeo also get kate back as well With Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Luhrmann reminded everyone that underneath the poetry, Shakespeare was as badass as they come. Recast Romeo + Juliet (1996) or your favorite Shakespeare movie. If you prefer the tragedies, I recommend seeing Roman Polanski's gritty, hallucinatory Macbeth, or Julie Taymor's Titus. I think my favorite Shakespeare comedy is Love's Labor's Lost, which Kenneth Branagh sets during WWII. Branagh stages it like a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, and replaces the traditional English folk songs with Frank Sinatra tunes. It's awesome. A t-shirt goes to the best recast, and the winner will be announced on Friday, Nov. 28. And by the way, Baz Luhrmann's Australia comes out on 11/26. Do you guys know anything about it? I mean, besides the fact that Hugh Jackman is frighteningly attractive with his shirt off? THE MONTAGUESLeonardo DiCaprio ... Romeo Dash Mihok ... Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) Jamie Kennedy ... Sampson (Montague thug) Zak Orth ... Gregory (Montague thug) Jesse Bradford ... Balthasar (Montague thug) Brian Dennehy ... Ted Montague (Romeo's dad) Christina Pickles ... Caroline Montague (Romeo's mom) THE CAPULETSClaire Danes ... Juliet John Leguizamo ... Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) Vincent Laresco ... Abra (Capulet thug) Paul Sorvino ... Fulgencio (Juliet's dad) Diane Venora ... Gloria (Juliet's mom) Miriam Margolyes ... Juliet's Nurse CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Harold Perrineau ... Mercutio (Romeo's friend who curses both houses) Pete Postlethwaite ... Father Laurence Paul Rudd ... Dave Paris (Governor's son, trying to marry Juliet) Vondie Curtis-Hall ... Captain Prince (the policeman) [/quote] http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/Recast_ROMEO_AND_JULIET_1996/563/37326/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: SkyPilot
Post To: Filmgaming
Post Date: 11/14/2008 4:34:44 PM
Body: With Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Luhrmann reminded everyone that underneath the poetry, Shakespeare was as badass as they come. Recast Romeo + Juliet (1996) or your favorite Shakespeare movie. If you prefer the tragedies, I recommend seeing Roman Polanski's gritty, hallucinatory Macbeth, or Julie Taymor's Titus. I think my favorite Shakespeare comedy is Love's Labor's Lost, which Kenneth Branagh sets during WWII. Branagh stages it like a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, and replaces the traditional English folk songs with Frank Sinatra tunes. It's awesome. A t-shirt goes to the best recast, and the winner will be announced on Friday, Nov. 28. And by the way, Baz Luhrmann's Australia comes out on 11/26. Do you guys know anything about it? I mean, besides the fact that Hugh Jackman is frighteningly attractive with his shirt off? THE MONTAGUESLeonardo DiCaprio ... Romeo Dash Mihok ... Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) Jamie Kennedy ... Sampson (Montague thug) Zak Orth ... Gregory (Montague thug) Jesse Bradford ... Balthasar (Montague thug) Brian Dennehy ... Ted Montague (Romeo's dad) Christina Pickles ... Caroline Montague (Romeo's mom) THE CAPULETSClaire Danes ... Juliet John Leguizamo ... Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) Vincent Laresco ... Abra (Capulet thug) Paul Sorvino ... Fulgencio (Juliet's dad) Diane Venora ... Gloria (Juliet's mom) Miriam Margolyes ... Juliet's Nurse CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Harold Perrineau ... Mercutio (Romeo's friend who curses both houses) Pete Postlethwaite ... Father Laurence Paul Rudd ... Dave Paris (Governor's son, trying to marry Juliet) Vondie Curtis-Hall ... Captain Prince (the policeman)
]]>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:34:44 GMTSkyPilotFilmgaming11/14/2008 4:34:44 PMWith Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Luhrmann reminded everyone that underneath the poetry, Shakespeare was as badass as they come. Recast Romeo + Juliet (1996) or your favorite Shakespeare movie. If you prefer the tragedies, I recommend seeing Roman Polanski's gritty, hallucinatory Macbeth, or Julie Taymor's Titus. I think my favorite Shakespeare comedy is Love's Labor's Lost, which Kenneth Branagh sets during WWII. Branagh stages it like a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, and replaces the traditional English folk songs with Frank Sinatra tunes. It's awesome. A t-shirt goes to the best recast, and the winner will be announced on Friday, Nov. 28. And by the way, Baz Luhrmann's Australia comes out on 11/26. Do you guys know anything about it? I mean, besides the fact that Hugh Jackman is frighteningly attractive with his shirt off? THE MONTAGUESLeonardo DiCaprio ... Romeo Dash Mihok ... Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) Jamie Kennedy ... Sampson (Montague thug) Zak Orth ... Gregory (Montague thug) Jesse Bradford ... Balthasar (Montague thug) Brian Dennehy ... Ted Montague (Romeo's dad) Christina Pickles ... Caroline Montague (Romeo's mom) THE CAPULETSClaire Danes ... Juliet John Leguizamo ... Tybalt (Juliet's cousin) Vincent Laresco ... Abra (Capulet thug) Paul Sorvino ... Fulgencio (Juliet's dad) Diane Venora ... Gloria (Juliet's mom) Miriam Margolyes ... Juliet's Nurse CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE Harold Perrineau ... Mercutio (Romeo's friend who curses both houses) Pete Postlethwaite ... Father Laurence Paul Rudd ... Dave Paris (Governor's son, trying to marry Juliet) Vondie Curtis-Hall ... Captain Prince (the policeman) http://www.spout.com/groups/movie_maniacs/Re_REMAKES_amp_BOOK_ADAPTATION/248/5653/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: davisfreeberg
Post To: movie_maniacs
Post Date: 2/20/2007 9:38:25 PM
Body: I'll give it a shot. 1. Batman - You could argue that comic books don't meet the literary requirements, but there is no doubt that Hollywood loves to make films off of them. I suppose Superman, Spiderman or the Xmen could all fit in that spot, but I choose Batman because Hollywood keeps on producing films from that franchise no matter how bad things get. 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula - This story has been told many times. Sometimes true to the original story and sometimes very different, but it's had a big influence on the film industry. 3. Romeo & Juliet - Not really my cup of tea, but filmmakers can't help themselves from cashing in on this weepy love story. Every generation has seen a different version of the film done. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
]]>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:38:25 GMTdavisfreebergmovie_maniacs2/20/2007 9:38:25 PMI&#39;ll give it a shot. 1. Batman - You could argue that comic books don&#39;t meet the literary requirements, but there is no doubt that Hollywood loves to make films off of them. I suppose Superman, Spiderman or the Xmen could all fit in that spot, but I choose Batman because Hollywood keeps on producing films from that franchise no matter how bad things get. 2. Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula - This story has been told many times. Sometimes true to the original story and sometimes very different, but it&#39;s had a big influence on the film industry. 3. Romeo &amp; Juliet - Not really my cup of tea, but filmmakers can&#39;t help themselves from cashing in on this weepy love story. Every generation has seen a different version of the film done. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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