It's wild to me they managed to script such a mundane start to what is a climatic moment in the story. Mercutio is irritated. Tybolt is charged. You really get the sense the heat is getting to everyone, and Romeo comes out of nowhere to defuse the tension. Rather than trying to ratchet up the drama from there the fight starts as two dudes teasing eachother, going for laughs more than anything else. What makes this great is how unavoidable it all seems. There's nothing malevolent about it. Zefirelli wad a total hack, but you'd be hard pressed to see this much ingenuity in any other Shakespeare adaptation
When I first watched the TV series I found it quite touching, especially the love❤ triangle between Robin Hood and Sir Guy of Gisborne. All the cast of that show were magnificent 👍
While I'm not in favor of DiCaprio and Danes as the lead characters, the rest of the actors who played Lords and Ladies Montegue and Capulet were absolutely superb. Besides Harold Perrineau as Mercutio, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Chief Prince also stole the show with his presence and how he projects his voice to demonstrate his role as an authority figure is always a favorite scene for me.
Tell my big brother tybolt plz i dont got back bones cuz tryied raping me along where i marryed to romeo rex hale is ugly he aint white...........lolloldo u know wat my husbend do to rex hale if i go back home im talkin to u rex hale Melvin crystal's ex hunbends
The scene is quite campy, when i read the play i imagined grown men dueling but watching this again after many years, i see quite a bit of adolescent exuberance in it. Jests are exchanged and aknowledged, the swordplay might as well have been done with sticks. Romeo stands between them, unable to read the room, and Mercutio is hurt accidentally, you can see the shock on Tybalt's face when he sees blood on his sword, and even rushes to help Mercutio, but is separated by the his cohorts. I think the screenwriters filled in the gaps, and offered us a fresh take, and perhaps a correct interpretation of the Bard's play.
I like cast , costumes and sets of 2013 English film better then any previous Romeo and Juliet versions ever made, absolutely all actors there are amazing and their performances are truly brilliant. It looks like every 50 years or so this immortal story must be redone as times change and every new generation reads the story of Romeo and Juliet a little differently.
I wrote an entire college paper called “the consequences of the male ego in Shakespeares’ Romeo and Juliet.” My instructor, in 1990 was effeminate and I knew exactly how to play my audience 😊 It was actually a fun paper to write!
I really like that Tybalt isn’t just a regular bad guy, he sometimes has shades of grey. He doesn’t hate mercutio and he’s just teasing and making fun of him but when Mercutio makes him look like an idiot and Romeo tries to stop the fight it makes Tybalt more angry and he ended up stabbing Mercutio. The reaction on his face says everything, he wasn’t trying to hurt Mercutio it was just the humiliation and intervening of Romeo that made him stab Mercutio,and if it wasn’t for Romeo the fight could’ve been different
At the end of Mercutio's life he suffered from being the funny friend. He bleed on the streets of Verona and everyone thought that he was being funny 😞
Wonder sometimes if Mercutio could see death looming over Romeo and knew he'd be next. Also wonder if Mercutio loved him in his flawless youth and beauty
The whole fight is mostly a joke but there's tension underneath the whole thing - starting from when Tybalt insulted Mercurio with the 'consorts' comment and when he accidentally-on-purpose splashed both Mercurio and Benvolio. There's a lot of laughter but also a lot of tension through this whole scene
It seems that Tybalt and Mercutio were having more of a play fight and were just fooling around. In fact I like the touch where Tybalt realises he stabbed Mercutio as it shows that he didnt mean to.
