Late one night during March Break of 2007, Romeo & Juliet, the Movie, came on one of the Movie Channels, totally uninterrupted and commercial free! This was indeed a rarity, as we only had 2 Movie Channels in Haliburton, and they rarely had anything decent to watch, especially at times such as March Breaks!No, this was not the 2005 'remake' of Romeo & Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and some girl as Juliet, done as a 'musical', with a gang-like 50's kind of twisted Westside Story version of Romeo & Juliet, but THE REAL Romeo & Juliet Movie!
We're talking about the movie made in the late 60's, with some virtually unknowns as actors in the leading roles as Romeo and Juliet, who reproduced the story, and spoke the lines word verbatim, as Shakespeare himself had written them, expecting that they be played the way he had written these lines.
We're talking about the movie made in the late 60's, with some virtually unknowns as actors in the leading roles as Romeo and Juliet, who reproduced the story, and spoke the lines word verbatim, as Shakespeare himself had written them, expecting that they be played the way he had written these lines.
Well! I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, since it was one of my all-time favourite movies from when I was in my early teens. I asked my daughters if they would like to stay up late and watch the movie with me ... if for nothing other than to see the costumes that the actors wore in this 'old' movie.
