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angelerulastiel t1_j8bs4y7 wrote
My son fell in love with that movie for about a month when he was 3 or 4.
Kawachi18 t1_j8bxhbj wrote
That’s absolutely sweet and equally hilarious
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Booty_Warrior_bot t1_j8bgduu wrote
Oh, I know who you are Chris Hansen,
but see I calls ya, Chris Handsome
647843267e t1_j8c3tqt wrote
In the original she is 16, but Shakespeare had to go and make it weird.
BaylonTheGrey t1_j8ck34b wrote
The original.
The original Romeo and Juliet.
The original Romeo and Juliet...that WASN'T written by William Shakespeare.
In that story...she's 16?
And...and William Shakespeare...rewrote it.
And made her 13?
That's....that's what you're saying?
twinparadox t1_j8ckw3b wrote
Yes, that is exactly what they are saying. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is based on The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a narrative poem written a good 30 years before Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet is a 16 year old.
p314159i t1_j8ey4ix wrote
>poem
That is the key point here. Poem didn't need to have characters played by actors, and in Shakespeare's time all female roles were played by pre-pubescent boy actors.
BaylonTheGrey t1_j8fhvgk wrote
Based on is not the same thing.
Shakespeare wrote an entire play based on a Poem.
They are similar stories but not the same thing.
tsaimaitreya t1_j8ckrml wrote
There's an original?
Funnily at the time the italians married substantially younger than the english... But then Shakespeare had to go overboard with it lol
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647843267e t1_j8eopfq wrote
There's nothing unusual about a romance between two 16yr olds..
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647843267e t1_j8eu6b8 wrote
Dude, it's a fictional play written hundreds of years ago. Get over it. You're projecting way too hard.
p314159i t1_j8exw2w wrote
Shakespeare had to make it believable for the character to be played by a pre-pubescent boy.
greenknight884 t1_j8bxhca wrote
I don't think they're that kind of letter
CrashParade t1_j8c6tr4 wrote
Dear Juliet:
You dumb fuck.
Signed, a concerned citizen.
Ludique t1_j8csm15 wrote
She's closer to 441.
stusthrowaway t1_j8d6zae wrote
Meanwhile Romeo's age is never mentioned.
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EavingO t1_j8cyshk wrote
I mean she is also dead, which likely has its own show with its own host, somewhere.
teedeeguantru t1_j8bpwjn wrote
Is Romeo just supposed to be okay with all this?
wickethewok t1_j8bsldt wrote
It's like Santa Claus, but if he committed suicide.
radio_allah t1_j8c6gxa wrote
The ironic thing here is that there's nothing Italian at all about Romeo and Juliet, or any other 'set in other European cities' characters under Shakespeare. Verona might as well be Newcastle.
It's like how Midsummer Night's Dream had shite all to do with Greece.
krukson t1_j8cfm0t wrote
Well, at least Verona can milk it. I've been there, and there's a ton of people visiting the balcony were it all "supposedly happened" every day.
ziostraccette t1_j8cxnf4 wrote
Yeah the original story is from Luigi Da Porto, and follows Romeo Montecchi and Giulietta Cappelletti and was written in 1530, then it got translated and changed and Shakespeare gets all the credit
Orinnus t1_j8d10le wrote
The original story wasn't written by Shakespeare
Dalemaunder t1_j8ckkdq wrote
Thousands of people forgetting Romeo and Juliet isn't a romance, it's a tragedy.
tsaimaitreya t1_j8ckxkr wrote
It's a tragic romance
Kumimono t1_j8cuypn wrote
...did they not watch the whole play? She's dead. 🤔
Well, and fictional, but stil.
basictoknow OP t1_j8b38l6 wrote
crasspmpmpm t1_j8bqzy2 wrote
lol wtf she must be like a hundred by now
radio_allah t1_j8c6mup wrote
Closer to 400 actually. Romeo and Juliet was set in the 15th century.
Dalemaunder t1_j8ckhsf wrote
That would place her 500-600.
Ricktatorship91 t1_j8cbj5c wrote
I don't understand. Why are people writing letters to a fictional character?
Gemmabeta t1_j8ceory wrote
People write to Santa Claus too.
Ricktatorship91 t1_j8cgiwr wrote
Those are children, these are adults
savage-dragon t1_j8ciypa wrote
Why not? Human fantasy is a powerful thing.
hyestepper t1_j8btpdc wrote
See also: Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters. Not what you’re expecting from EC.
gonesnake t1_j8chvv3 wrote
And quite a good album!
fulthrottlejazzhands t1_j8dhspj wrote
Dear Juliet,
Why you run off with boy from other family? You only 13 and he kill your cousin.
jmdg007 t1_j8ciobk wrote
Did they not read the story/watch the play. Juliet's dead
ft907 t1_j8kkz7q wrote
If you've ever sent Santa a letter to the North Pole, there's a good chance it was read by a middle schooler in Interior Alaska. We did not have a cool name.
Lookalikemike t1_j8cn8fu wrote
Juliet should ask for money for her sick grandmother.
ziostraccette t1_j8cx8fn wrote
And I live in Montecchio near Vicenza! There's Romeo's castle and a bunch of other villas from that family!
EavingO t1_j8cynlr wrote
Return to sender, Addressee dead......
Kawachi18 t1_j8b3myi wrote
There’s a movie called Letters to Juliet that includes this if anyone’s in the mood for watching romance.