Crazy summary from (where else) ffnet...

[valis2]

A 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

ETA: gillieweed has pointed me to this abomination.

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

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

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!"

[chrysantza.livejournal.com]

Anything left over he'd give to Ron and Hermione, so he could off the Know-It-All and an Annoying Weasley to boot.

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

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Juliet Sue! Mwa hahaha...she's just naturally resistant to poisons, and she has a sekrit metal plate in her bosom that deflects all attempted piercings with daggers!

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

Pity.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen the Romeo and Juliet takeoff before. A LOT with Draco/Hermione, which is a ship I'm not overly fond of to begin with. And they never, EVER die at the end! I think these authors just process the "star-crossed lovers" part of R+J and their brains shut down before they get to the "half the cast dies in the end" part. I mean, it's a tragedy for a reason, people!

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>

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the Tempest! One of my favorite Shakespearean plays.

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*

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* I believe that, sadly.

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.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I've heard that before, that Titus is better than the play. I've been meaning to see it.

Have you seen Prospero's Books? Terrific version of the Tempest!

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

It's definitely worth watching. Have you seen Branagh's version of Love's Labour Lost? It's a little unorthodox, granted, because he sort of turns the play into a musical, but they use great music from the 30s and 40s and I think it turned out really well.

I haven't! But I'll definitely check that out, 'cause I've always loved The Tempest. Thanks!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Just to warn you, Prospero's Books is NC-17 or at the very least a hard R, it's a movie by Peter Greenaway and he's notorious for having squicky material in his movies. It's not pr0n, not at all, but it is a bit shocking at points the first time through. It really is a brilliant interpretation, and it stars Sir John Gielgud.