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May. 20th, 2005 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2A young Muggle girl finds her way into Hogwarts and also into the infamous Potions Master.
Sounds messy.
ETA: bwa haha hahahahah!!
Two households, both alike in dignity, in London, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes-A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life…
"Fatal loins"?!! HAHAHhaha
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gillieweed has pointed me to this abomination.
Sounds messy.
ETA: bwa haha hahahahah!!
Two households, both alike in dignity, in London, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes-A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life…
"Fatal loins"?!! HAHAHhaha
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Date: 2005-05-20 07:53 pm (UTC)You'd think a Snape!Sue would want it the other way around.
And the Shakespeare one...*shakes head* I bet the author isn't being at all original. She changed what? One word? Oh wait, she took out "fair" too. *sigh* I'll bet whoever's playing Romeo and Juliet don't die at the end either. They never die like they're supposed to in those stories.
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Date: 2005-05-20 07:58 pm (UTC)Oh god, you are undoubtedly correct. What a scary concept!
I hope Snape gets to play the guy who supplies poison to Romeo...and if Romeo is Harry, you know Snape is going to bounce around in glee (internally, at the very least) when it happens. "I get to off the 'Celebrity' and the Mudblood in one fell swoop? Sign me up!"
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:07 pm (UTC)I can't see Snape as Romeo. I just can't. And "fatal loins" not only is straight from R&J, it gives me a plotbunny of Snape and Juliet Sue going to the Claim Jumper where they die of bad steak.
*infamous potions master* hee hee hee
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:26 pm (UTC)I think I had a rant about this in my journal a while back, because I got tired of seeing the Shakespeare ripoffs on the Pit of Voles. I think Shakespeare COULD be adapted to the Potterverse, but it would take some thought. And Romeo and Juliet isn't the right play to use, in my opinion. If one of these authors really wanted to do romance, Shakespeare wrote a lot of comedies and quite a few romances. I mean, Shakespeare ripped off the plots of most of his works from other sources, so you can adapt some of the stories, but I don't want to see anymore D/Hr happy endings based on Romeo and Juliet. You want a happy ending, rewrite Much Ado About Nothing or The Tempest or something.
< / rant>
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:35 pm (UTC)This discussion reminds me of the Milla Jovovich version of Joan of Arc. When they polled test audiences, someone wrote on their card, "Why does she have to die at the end?"
*headdesk*
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:43 pm (UTC)Shakespeare movies are iffy like that too, I think. Although there are some really good ones out there. Kenneth Branagh's are always well done. I had a class on Shakespeare this semester and we watched Julie Taymor's Titus after reading Titus Andronicus and I have to say, I thought the movie was actually better than the play. It's one of the first things Shakespeare wrote and the pacing in the play is a bit off at times. The movie was an excellent adaptation, though, and I thought the edits and the rearranging of scenes Taymor did worked extremely well.
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Date: 2005-05-20 09:09 pm (UTC)Have you seen Prospero's Books? Terrific version of the Tempest!
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Date: 2005-05-21 03:59 am (UTC)I haven't! But I'll definitely check that out, 'cause I've always loved The Tempest. Thanks!
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Date: 2005-05-20 10:24 pm (UTC)It's the way Romeo and Juliet should have been - true love with a personal twist!
OW! Ow ow ow ow ow!! It burnssss!
*sobs*
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Date: 2005-05-20 10:25 pm (UTC)What's more, if you choose the Happy Ending Version a new scene is added with an unexpected plot twist — the lovers live happily ever after! A short scene is added after Act V Scene III. It turns out the apothecary's poison didn't work and Romeo survives, and Juliet's stabbing of herself merely made her pass out. (With sincere apologies to William Shakespeare, Mercutio and Tybalt!)
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Date: 2005-05-20 10:42 pm (UTC)Can you imagine if someone gave that to you as a wedding gift?
"Uh...Us? as Romeo & Juliet? But...er...they die at the end."
"Oh no, sweetie, this is the new Happy Ending Version (tm)!"
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Date: 2005-05-20 11:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-21 03:56 am (UTC)The "Happy Ending version" particularly made me want to gouge my eyes out.
If people could only be bothered to read a few more of Shakespeare's plays, there are ones that actually had happy endings the way Shakespeare wrote them. Granted, there isn't the exact same sense of star-crossed love, but...you know...happy ending.
I've never understood why everyone loves Romeo and Juliet so much anyway. Ok, yes, Shakespeare's writing is always lovely, but that play just never appealed to me in the way most of his other plays have (the one's I've read, of course).
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