Romeo and Juliet

...what's actually being said, they're just as ridiculous as Bella and Edward. the difference between Twilight and Romeo and Juliet is this: Romeo and Juliet is a TRAGEDY. Literature classes always include discussions of the protagonists'...

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...shorts. Such scenes seem to be aimed more at confirmed bachelors than at teenage girls. The script makes frequent reference to Romeo and Juliet, and you may be able to deduce from the trailer that here the Montagues and Capulets are...

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...a popular offering, something of a chestnut in the canon. Still, most theatergoers haven't metabolized it quite the way they have "Romeo and Juliet." So as Floyd King's Touchstone, the play's clownish king of the rapid riposte, has to...

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...stories are not so loosely based on. The struggles of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are in no way shying from Shakespeare's beloved "Romeo and Juliet." Chris Wietz, who once showed unbelievable promise as a director with the beautiful...

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...before it got popular, because I love reading vampire fantasy romance stories. Personally, I love it because it's a modern version of "Romeo and Juliet," and any girl would want that fantasy coming true in real life. So when I found out...

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...how poorly written the books are, the movie did a good job of making the story more compelling. I liked the allusions to the Romeo & Juliet story … something I missed in reading the book. If you're gonna make reference to a piece of...

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...eclipsing the $70 million taken by "Twilight" this time last year. The film bows Friday (November 20). Alluding more obviously to the "Romeo & Juliet" vibe of author Stephenie Meyer's books, "New Moon" finds heroine Bella Swan (Kristen...

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...tragedy in the film. The trouble with this fitfully entertaining sequel is that Romeo and Juliet are separated for almost two-thirds of the film. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have a genuine chemistry and mutual charisma...

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Who should play Romeo and Juliet in old age? | Arts diary The Bristol Old Vic's newly announced version of Romeo and Juliet, which will reimagine the lovers in their 80s and set the drama in Verona's residential care homes, is a fantastic...

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Octogenarian versions of Shakespeare's lovers to feature in Bristol production "Young men's love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes," chides Friar Laurence, as the hot-headed youth Romeo confesses his love for Juliet...

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