Quick little sketch of them :)
guys do not! watch portrait of a lady on fire I'm sobbing
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Anonymous asked:
What do you think about the “pool scene” in Luhrmann version?
It’s far from being my favorite version of the orchard scene. I do think it’s a very innovative way of staging it, and I love the overall symbolism of water in the movie, but I think it contradicts what Shakespeare wrote on so many levels.
The lovers are isolated in the text. They do not kiss, they do not even touch—they cannot. I think there’s something meaningful in the fact that Juliet is trapped inside her window, barely able to move, while Romeo has all the stage for himself. This physical restriction is what makes their dialogue so subversive. They imagine a world that totally contradicts their reality, one where Juliet may be as uncontainable as the sea, where she may be the falconer and Romeo her fragile little bird, petting him so intensely she might kill him (she has so much energy, she yearns for uncontrollability).
It’s so powerful, the images so visual, yet everything stays in the mind; Juliet is still up there, trapped. It makes their passionate longing so much more urgent. Words are everything they have, and through them they create a bond so intense not even their society can tear them apart. Their poetry rises above all physical constraints. They would love to make out in a pool, but that’s precisely what they cannot do. Yet in the play they achieve wholeness through words exclusively. When Juliet forgets why she called Romeo back, she wishes ‘to have thee still stay there, / Remembering how I love thy company’; similarly, he will ‘still stay, to have thee still forget, / Forgetting any other home but this’. They love to talk.
Then I dislike Juliet’s passivity in Luhrmann’s scene. He cut out many of her powerful lines, making her mumble and smile shyly instead. She does not brag of the limitlessness of her passion: her bounty is not as boundless as the sea (and it’s a pity, because that speech would have worked so well in a pool), she does not complain about her lack of freedom (‘bondage is hoarse’), doesn’t dream of breaking caves with her screaming (‘would I tear the cave where Echo lies / And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine / With repetition of “my Romeo!”’). The way I see it, the orchard scene is, above all, Juliet’s: she truly takes control of the scene, of Romeo, of herself. But not in Luhrmann’s version. I talked more about Claire Danes and this scene here!
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Juliet is such a great feminist character!!! I love her so much😍😍
Ah, this girl. There are boundless seas roaring within her, aren’t there? So bright, so sharp, so quick-witted. She radiates exuberance—that teenage, zealous need to taste life, to fall in love with all things extreme.
When we first meet her, she is so submissive. She is the perfect daughter: so quiet, so guileless, always with short, complaisant answers to her parents’ questions:
And then? Then the sun rises, as Romeo would phrase it. She breaks all boundaries. There is nothing she wouldn’t do to achieve her beloved freedom—a freedom made of euphoria and giggles and screaming. Compare the previous quote with this one from Act IV:
By Saint Peter’s Church and Peter too … I will not marry yet … These are news indeed! So fierce, so lethal. What did she say as she waited for her wedding night to come? ‘Gallop apeace, you fiery footed steeds; / Such a wagoner seems Phaeton would whip you to the west and bring in cloudy night immediately.’ Fiery horses in the sky guided by a reckless wagoner; she is ready to see the world burn.
And this excerpt I could read over and over again and feel the thrill in my veins every time:
And Romeo? She enlightens him in every sense of the word. She becomes his mentor; he becomes her listener. Romeo’s poetry is so mind-numbing at the beginning of the story, so utterly dull. Full of unoriginal, empty words borrowed from other poets. ‘You kiss by the book,’ she tells him mockingly. She teaches him to be honest, to shape the voice of his heart: ‘O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circled orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.’ And he listens, he absorbs it all, he devours her words soulfully. ‘Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, / Brags of his substance, not of ornament,’ she reminds him. Then, in the aubade scene, when they have already shared everything with each other, Juliet is the one to cling to fantasy, to live through illusion: ‘Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.’ Romeo stays resolute: ‘It was the lark’. She has taught him to see, to feel.
But she is left alone at the end; no soul defends her. Her Romeo (as she always calls him) is banished first, dead later. ‘And if all else fails, myself have power to die,’ she says, this intelligent, lively girl. I deem it the most heartrending line of the play. Myself have power to die. This is the most hopeful thing she could say to herself. It is the voice of loneliness, hopelessness. She chooses death over a passionless, prison-like life. But Juliet has a murderer: her society, her father, her mother, and everyone who refused to listen to her voice killed her with their blatant disregard.
Yet at the end of the play, she becomes Verona’s heroine. See how Juliet’s forthcoming statue is described in four lines, while Romeo’s is only mentioned in one: she will shine in pure gold, and he will be by her side.
Funny how, as you enter the playhouse, you know you are about to watch Romeo and Juliet, and how the last words to be spoken before the curtain falls still float in the air as you leave the theater: ‘For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.’
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“…As older forms of social interaction continued to coexist along with increasing commercialization, both actresses and ladies of quality created their own dramatic moments by curtseying to friends and patrons, and engaging in cross-talk or verbal outbursts that competed with the play and could even bring it to a halt. For example, Susannah Cibber as Ophelia in Hamlet reportedly “rose up three several times and made as many courtesies, and those very low ones, to some ladies in the boxes,” according to the Volunteer Manager (24 April 1763), and a reviewer mocked Mrs. Cibber for stepping out of character: “Pray, good Sir, ask her in what part of the Play it is Said, that the Danish Ophelia … is acquainted with so many British ladies?”
In addition to addressing audience members, the actors onstage also engaged in chatting amongst themselves: “Not only the Supernumeraries … or Attendants, mind nothing of the great Concern of the Scene, but even the Actors themselves, who are on the Stage, and not in the very principal Parts, shall be whispering to one another, or bowing to their Friends in the Pit, or gazing about.” Actors or former actors in the patent theaters sometimes attended performances as members of the audience and often in disguise. David Garrick reports that “Mr Barry & Mrs Cibber came incog[nito] to see Us,” after having played the lead parts in Romeo and Juliet themselves. Furthermore, the comments of audiences attending a premier performance could actually spark revisions to the script for subsequent productions.
THANK YOU SO MUCH IM WRITING AN ESSAY RN AND THIS HELPED SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG IVE BEEN LOOKING GO GET PUBLISHED ILY TY
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I’m so sick and fucking tired of people removing mentions of Mercutio being gay and citing “there’s no evidence in the text” as their reason. Romeo and Juliet is not just literature, it is a play. It is theatre. And theatre is not at all about the text. Theatre is about the ambiguity; the room for every actor and director from high school to Broadway to make their own interpretation. And there is a history that you cannot deny of Mercutio being interpreted as gay. Baz Lurrman’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet just being the tip of the iceberg. Mercutio’s character almost always has a level of flamboyance that LGBT+ people recognize in themselves and that lends itself well to this interpretation. To see Shakespeare only through the lens of the text (of which practically every line could be debated, and translations vary depending on location, time period, and the positioning of the stars) is to see less than half of it. If William “Bill the Bisexual” Shakespeare wanted us to think like that he would have published his work as epic poems or something.
slashingshakespeare
I have yet to meet a performance of romeo and juliet that makes mercutio in any way straight
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Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs
im-sherlocked-in-my-mindpalace
jesus that is good to know.
chandra75
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
togamijail
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
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AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS
this post just got so much better
steve-spaghetti
THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST
This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.
Dogs are truly angels.
so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist
the anxiety cat
Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great
this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.
so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.
Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah
Dog: :) fine, thanks
Cheetah: :) oh, okay
Cheetah: O NO HOW WE GONNA HANDLE THIS!!!
Doggo: *is completely calm*
Cheetah: Roy’s not scared, he’s got a plan. I trust him.
Doggo: *remains unaware that there was anything to worry about*
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“Keep prisons single sex” sticker written over to read “abolish prisons have gay sex”
Seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Had to do it
world heritage post
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i am completely enraptured with this gif
impliedwolf
T. yes i assume so
H. helps you better understand the world
I. inspired you to post a stupid kindergarten image
N. honesty is important so yes
K. complimented the penguin
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January was a tough year but we made it
i don't think people understand the irony of the date on this post. yes it's jan 31st and it's a mood so every jan 31st we reblog it. but guys. . . this was made in Jan 2020. By the first week of February covid numbers were finally starting to come out of china, by mid Feb Italy was shutting down and by the end of Feb half the world was entering their covid lockdowns. OP Jan may have be tough but you had a big storm coming
Reblog if January was a tough year but we made it
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born to be an idgafer forced to be a yearner
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unclefather
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i cannot believe op left out the best part, all of the fucking memes that came from this
world heritage post
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Anonymous asked:
what's up with folk music being full of faggots, does singing about vietnamese war and drugs turn u into dick/clit sucking machine? so fucking tired of harmonica bisexuals rn
this is the best ask ever. music critics in the mid 1960s:
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Trying to identify someone's time zone by the hours that they're active on Tumblr is commiting the logical fallacy of assuming that anyone on here has a regular sleep schedule
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I have never seen such an accurate depiction of what it looks like without glasses.
ezzelbean
For writers with good eyesight, this is a good reference for what it’s like trying to see without our glasses
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Please, for the love of god, please don’t be this person. No matter how long it’s been since an update, no matter how many unfinished stories are sitting on their account, no matter what - do not be this person.
Not only is it insanely rude, but you also do more damage than you think be being such a self-entitled ass about something someone created for free and for fun. “This author” can see what you say.
RIP decency indeed.