quote:Originally posted by ManofTheAtom: Imagine if the Dicrapio (sp?) Romeo + Juliet remade were to forever replace the original story just because it made more money... would you find any justification in that??
Um, Romeo + Juliet is essentially the same fucking thing as the play, just edited down a bit, with the visual aspect modernized. You might as well say any faithful (as in using the original text of the play) adaptation, then. But that doesn't mean anything.
Howzabout you try "O" replacing "Othello" or "Ten Things I Hate About You" replacing "The Taming of the Shrew?" Hell, you could do Kurasawa's "Ran" replacing "King Lear," but that would get you about as far as Romeo + Juliet, because both Ran and R+J are good movies.
