Ah, but I do love old movie trailers…
Look at what was supposed to win an audience’s interest for Hollywood’s newest Shakespeare adaptation. The sweethearts of Smilin’ Through (though I have my doubts Romeo and Juliet can be described as smilin’ through much more than a couple of early scenes each…), the magnificent pageantry, the sensation in New York, this girl and this boy, Norma Shearer cooing to a young deer… And let us not forget the limited special popular prices…
There: Shakespeare according to Hollywood in the Thirties… Adorably quaint, naïve, and quite the window on another world.
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A theme worth pursuing – each mise-en-scene of Romeo & Juliet tells us more about the ideas, concerns and fantasies of the age in which it was staged than about the actual story of the two besotted kids.
Worth a few posts, what?
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Most definitely… And of course, the idea applies to a lot of plays and stories and the way the are… shall we say molded again and again through time? But yes, R&J seems to possess the kind of universal appeal that makes it an especially significant case of the phenomenon.
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It’s a basic “Boy meets Girl” story… it can be remixed in any possible way.
Some could even attach a happy ending to it 😉
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Oh, but they have! Restoration folks could tack happy endings to anything… Oh! Is this another post that I see before me?
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Yes 😀
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