Verona

Romeo and Juliette

Like in the song Love Story by Taylor Swift or from the movie letters to Juliette this is my letter to Juliette, Its a review of the the play Romeo and Juliette that I went to see.

A little bit about the play

The play is set in Verona, where there is a real life wall where lovers can write their wishes on Juliette's wall. Because she is Shakespear's most famous romantic heroine. In the movie letters to Juliette where a woman put her letter to Juliette in the wall in 1957, and Sophie finds it fifty years later, and helps the woman to find her lover.

In the play there is a lot of talk about marriage. There weren't so many other things women could do in the seventeenth century so who they got married to was very important. It was for lots of different reasons, financial and property reasons. Not mostly love like today.

Romeo is in love with Rosoline at first, he says, "The all-seeing sun / ne'er saw her match since first the world begun." Meaning there has never been anyone as beautiful as her. But she

doesn't love him back. She is a woman with dark features.

People say that by loving Rosoline Romeo is able to love Juliette who is from the Capulet family of his enemies. Only when Romeo and Juliette die so their families become friends again.

The Review

Romeo and Juliet A Review by Emma Brodie Romeo and Juliet, done by the Bell Shakespeare Company, it's not that similar to the movie, it's a little bit "ratty" (punk?) : they showed their chests and their hair was a bit wild. I loved the movie by Baz Lurhmann more, with Leonardo Di Caprio and Claire Danes. The parents of Juliet were wanting her to get married to Paris. But she loves loves Romeo (I really like the way Leonardo Di Caprio plays Romeo.) I love Romeo's poem to Juliet at the Capulet house, outside her bedroom window. "O she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an ethiop's ear." It makes me feel like they want to kiss each other' lips, it's very beautiful serious loving language. I want to know more about Shakespeare. Baz Lurmann is very good in making the play and so is the Bell Shakespeare Company - they did it at the Opera House. Juliet in yesterda's performance was great, I really liked the kiss but she is not an angel, she doesn't wear the angel wings (of Clare Danes) in the film. Last night's Juliet was played by Kelly Paterniti. We're learning Romeo and Juliet in film-making class. In filmmaking class we describe the film. My homework in film class is to think about the women in the play and movie. I get jealous of all the girls playing Juliet, even though we all have a turn to play her. My favourite lines are "My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand, to smooth the rough touch with a gentle kiss." They have a wonderful church in the film of Romeo and Juliet, I love the song and where they are buried, the crypt. The Romeos of my class are my friends' guys - not too passionate. There are lots of Romeos out there, in weddings, ready to be husbands. About Paris, I did like Paris in the film because I felt sorry for him - he's nice to the mother, though she's a bit pushy, Lady Capulet, she is. There is a lot of chemistry between these characters, a chemistry of forbidden love, and the father of Juliet is a bit judgemental and he is not the kind of father that my Dad is. It's like the Capulet and Montague fathers are the boss of everybody and that's like why they are like kings. They don't respect the wives. Romeo and Juliet's parents are not very involved with their children - not like my parents are (but sometimes they don't listen to their kids either and they tell them what to do, especially about the "rules"; what are the "rules" ?) But Friar Laurence and the Nurse are like Romeo and Juliet's real parents because they really care about them and they want them to be together, they are the only supportive people that Romeo and Juliet know of in the film. It's like religion (Friar Laurence) and goddeses of the earth (the Nurse) they want them to be together. The Nurse is so funny, especially in the Bell Shakespeare play I saw, letting Romeo and Juliet make love in her bedroom, that's a goddess supporting thing - in the film they kiss in the swimming pool, it's lovely and "sensual" which means you can feel the love in your body. Of two star-crossed lovers who couldn't be together, I want to know more about that, be inspired to be peaceful towards hot desires of young people in a different age who come from different worlds with ordinary love. It's sad when you don't know your enemy and you just grow up believing you hate people. This play and the Baz Lurhmann movie speaks the truth about people. Some people don't believe it but I do and these actors are so much more serious than real people are to show what happens for love.