Thursday, November 12, 2015
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In the first scene that our group acted, Act 1, Scene 5, we used music and exaggerated acting to emphasize the ridiculousness of the scene. In the original story, Rome and Juliets' first meeting scene is very romantic and beautiful. They fall in love with each other at FIRST sight in the party. However, our group found several unrealistic parts in the scene and thought this scene wouldn't make sense if it happened in the modern life. First of all, Romeo and Juliets' lines in this scene are very emotional and quite serious like "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" (Act 1, Scene 5, line 106,107). However, audiences feel those words are too flirty and the fact that they are only 13 and 16 years old teenagers also makes audiences laugh. To describe the ridiculousness and make laughter points we put some sources of real club in now days. First, if it happened a real club, we thought people need to yell at each other and keep repeat to communicate in the club with loud music. We put song 'shot' by Lmfao which is really noisy and typical club music. And other actors instead of Romeo and Juliet danced and sang right next to them when they were trying to flirt each other with heavy lines. So, Romeo had no chance but to keep repeat his flirty words which cuts off the flow of their romantic mood and converts the whole scene from romance to comedy. Also, Romeo's friends show weird dance moves and act like crazy people exactly like drunk people in the club. I hope that reinterpreting this beautiful scene to funny scene makes Romeo and Juliet more familiar to modern audiences.
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