Romeo+Juliet

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I'm thinking of the version starring Leo DiCaprio and Clare Danes...Did anyone else find this film totally pointless?

They have cars.
They have guns.
They have extacy.
They have TVs and helicopters.
They're basically a couple of spoilt rich kids...

SO WHERE ARE THE MOBILE PHONES FERCHRISSAKES? :D

The film's set in a 20th century Venice Beach...they can't tell me there's not at least a phone box or something, if not e-mail, cellphones...

I actually sat in the cinema in disbelief through the whole thing and at one point said out loud, 'Will this priest just pick up the bloody phone and CALL Romeo?'...

The crazy thing is, no one I've said this to seems to realise that the minute the story is moved into any year after mr Bell's little masterpiece came into being it just loses its point...

To me, when that happened, the lover's story stopped being tragis and romantic, it just became ridiculously silly...

Tell me I am not alone...please...
 
I never thought about the phone either. But, come to think of it, isn't there a scene where the priest phones the mail company to find out what happened to his letter?

Now that you point it out, it dies seem a tad ridiculous :)

PS. There's a similar scene in McKellen's Richard The Third. He's racing around a battlefield in a jeep, dodging tanks and planes and stuff and yelling 'my kingdom for a horse!' Why???????
 
I enjoyed it. Believe me, there have been far worse 'modernizations'. At least they didn't change the language, and I liked the visuals.
 
Oh, I had no problem with the language and the way it was filmed, very pretty and colourful...It was just the total anachronism of the phones...the whole story and tragedy hinges on the fact that the messenger and Romeo missed one another and Romeo dodn't get the priest's message...that just doesn't work for me in a wealthy 20th Century environment...
 
Maybe somebody should adapt Shakespeare in text lingo
.......2 B or not 2 B :)
 
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