Assuming you're not trolling, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.greg wrote:I think Romeo and Juliet is total crap, too. I dig Shakespeare, I guess, But that play is total crap. Like I said before about tragedy happening to fools, this play is nothing but idiocy. Check for a pulse next time before killing yourself, moron. Tybalt was the only interesting character in the play, and he dies halfway through. Romeo and Juliet was a gagfest, and I hate how it's made out to be such a wonderful love story. If you've seen the '60s movie of Romeo and Juliet, it's obvious that Romeo is just smitten by her cleavage.
Shakespeare's big thing was taking long-standing stereotypes and turning them on their heads. Romeo and Juliet skewers teenage love (Romeo's heads over heels in love with a different woman less than an hour before he falls for Juliet), the stupidity of family feuds, even the sarcastic jokester Tybalt is done in by his own personality when he's asking the Montagues to get him medical attention and everyone thinks he's joking.
What you see as flaws are actually the play's intentional ironies piled one atop another. The view of Romeo and Juliet as the ultimate love story is the shallowest possible interpretation. The same interpretation that was Lucas' downfall in trying to create romantic tension in Clones.
On another note, I remember renting the special edition DVD of Empire and will not pay to see it in the theaters because *spoiler alert* Lucas lets the cat out of the bag early that Luke is Vader's son and therefore deflates the dramatic climax of the entire series. I mean, why not? If you were watching this series from episode 1 on, you'd already know that. Product synergy trumps art.
Have you folks watched The Hidden Fortress? It should be required viewing before anyone talks about creativity that Lucas "lost."
