Tag: shakespeare

Things I want from a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet:

ceracero:

imstuckathome12:

sophisticat42:

– Everyone is dressed in traditional costuming, but the script is in modern English.
– “Romeo, Romeo, why the FUCK did you have to be ROMEO?”
– Juliet talks like a rich white valley girl and wears a flower crown.
– She keeps taking inappropriately timed selfies and posting them on instagram.
– Tybalt won’t stop talking about his crossfit regime.
– Romeo only listens to My Chemical Romance.
– Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech is followed by Benvolio asking “Are you high right now?” (He is)
– Mercutio dabs on stage. Unironically. More than once.
– When the boys are all catcalling Nurse it’s super cringy.
– instead of “a sail! A sail!” You get “Hey Fatass!” “Fatass? I just see a boat!” “Weigh anchor! You’re gonna break the docks, Fatass!”
– Tybalt also dabs on stage, exactly twice.
– The first time is awful and his friends have to correct him.
– Tybalt dabs at Mercutio and Mercutio responds by doing a backflip and ending in a dab.
– The Tybalt/Mercutio fight is an absolutely serious dancebattle with no weapons.
– Mercutio still dies anyway.
– Tybalt tries to dance battle Romeo too, but Romeo keeps taking it too seriously and not dancing back.
– This is because Romeo only knows how to ballroom dance.
– Paris wears a trillby and calls it a fedora.
– Juliet Snapchats her own death.
– Romeo doesn’t have Snapchat.

The most in character post I’ve seen

@kweddellseal @nogenderonmars

oberonnymerosmartell:

bisexualzuko:

“they can say whatever the hell they want I don’t care I’ll say ‘fuck you’”

“did you just flip the bird at us?”

“I did flip the bird, yeah”

“but did you flip it at US?”

“yo bruh if this starts a fight how easily can I get out of trouble”

“not very”

“So like I flipped the bird but it TOTALLY wasn’t at you”

let’s just appreciate that this is a conversation that actually literally happens in one of the greatest plays in the english language

roachpatrol:

berenshand:

some highlights from my students’ romeo and juliet modern interpretation projects:

– someone made a username for friar laurence with 420 at the end
– the same kid who put 69 in romeo’s username like i wouldn’t know what either of those things mean
– the girl who added ‘clean’ at the end of all the songs on her juliet playlist like lmao girl i know spotify doesn’t have the clean version
– the kid who said romeo and juliet killed each other
– the weird dichotomy of kids who put love story on their playlist vs the kids who choose bad blood
– the kid who wrote ‘get a room’ as tybalt’s comment on romeo’s couple pic
– the kid who said ‘romeo is probably one of those douches who follows a ton of people so they follow him back and then he unfollows all of them’
– the one who legitimately used the word ‘alrighty’ do kids say this in their text messages???? i thought i was the one talking like an elderly person but okay
– the one who made romeo’s username ‘montagoose’
– the only kid who acknowledged that posting about your secret relationship on instagram was a bad idea
– the girl who wrote that romeo would unironically say ‘#blessed’. she’s right.
– the one single solitary girl who wrote mercutio as gay as shakespeare did (she’s also the only one who used mercutio at all which is a tragedy but whatever)
– the one who wrote romeo’s insta bio as ‘thus with a kiss i die… LOL RIP ME 😂💀’
– the one who made benvolio’s username benvoliYO

@seananmcguire