Sunday, June 3, 2012

the capulet party

One thing I really love is Baz Luhrmann's infamous movie version of Shakespeare's famous play, Romeo & Juliet. We've been watching snippets of this movie in class along with the more classic Zefferelli film, and while everyone seems to despise Luhrmann's version, I fucking love it, okay.

Not only does it have gorgeous young Leonardo DiCaprio and gorgeous young Claire Danes doing gorgeous young sexual things in a pool, it's also got some sick costumes, all this gorgeous ethereal, kinda creepy religious imagery, and it features Mercutio in drag. 

And I think the Capulet party scene is one of my favorites out of the whole movie.

Romeo goes to the Capulet party, and he's tripping balls cause he's been doing hella drugs with his badass Montague friends, some of which have colorful or weird hair, and all of which wear floral and/or open shirts.


Anyway they head to the party, which is pretty crazy, despite the lack of grinding and booty shorts me and my friends predicted (but then again this was pre-Jersey Shore).
Romeo's basically like "the fuck is going on" and he's all like "i lov drogz" but then it gets kinda crazy and he has to go to the bathroom and stick his head in the sink and get some air.


Weirdly enough, there's this aquarium thing that connects the men's restroom with the women's (isn't that creepy?) and Romeo and Juliet see each other and they're doing this awkward cute teenager thing where they smile at each other shyly and she looks at the floor a lot and it's really adorable.



At first they're all like… "Wow. I'm enraptured by your gorgeousness." And in Juliet's case, also kinda creeped out. And in Romeo's case, also still kinda high.


But then they get all flirty and smiley.

And then he approaches her while she's talking to people (he's hidden behind this column) and then they meet and start making out in the elevator and then Juliet's extremely Hispanic nurse sees them and she's all like "¡Julieta!" And Juliet gets dragged away. Aaaaaaaaand cut.

And yeah they're really cute. I feel like if Claire Danes & Leonardo DiCaprio had been around in Shakespeare's day, he would have decided that their adorable coupley-ness was just too cute and he would have had R&J not commit mutual suicide.


But enough about how cute they are, blah blah blah. Let's get on to how cool the setting is.


Look closely and you can see Juliet's fake-dead head among those gorgeous satiny sheets. Look at all those candles. (Weren't they smart, putting them around an unconscious girl lying on a flammable bed!) Safety issues aside, though, look how cool it looks. There are just so many candles! 




And then look at Juliet's room. Candles! Candles! Candles! Angel statues! Jesus! The Virgin Mary! More Jesus! More angels! Even more angels! This is tempting me to go to the dollar store and buy tons of prayer candles and to go to Goodwill and wander the china aisle, digging through mugs until I find little statues of angelical children and kittens. And look at those fake flowers! How cool is Juliet's room?


And check out these sick-ass neon crosses in her backyard. And more candles! Candles, in her fucking backyard! They're on chandelier things, in her backyard, among plants.

I think I'm going to make more visual appreciation posts about Romeo and Juliet's faces this movie sometime soon! But right now the actual book is calling, along with a shitload of homework.

So I bid thee farewell. Parting is such sweet sorrow. I'm pretty sure that's not the original line, which is probably why I failed my English class. O, I am fortune's fool!

xo

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