What Is A Youth - Romeo and Juliet 1968 

rov li Masterpiece.

I totally agree

Personally I like the 1996 version because that is the one I saw first and I grew up with that version but the 1968 version is so good and is so beautifully shot and this song just represents the beauty and tragedy of the story and the movie.

Ikr

I prefer adaptations to be set at the time they were written as, therefore I prefer this version to 1996. I prefer Jane Austen adaptations to be set in the Georgian/Regency era to the modern age and so on with any classic work. I don't see the point in having it in modern day. Why does it being set in the past mean people can't relate to it? I just don't understand it.

agreed

Me too. Love it. We have the video and watch it regularly. So light and easy. One of shakies best after Merry wifes of Windsor.

Amen, brother

I saw this while alone in a theatre in 1968-69 when I was a coming of age very confused 13-year-old boy. I couldn't believe I cried during a movie and I was simply in love with this picture and the characters. Even now at 61 I have never forgotten it or this music.

My older sister took me to see this when I was 13. Love this movie. I'm almost 60. Still love it. SO well made.

You're right. The 90's one is underrated though.

I agree this is the best version. I first saw this at school in 1978 with my girlfriend. I was 16 and she was 14.

i first seen it on big screen in 1968,, i was 10.. it was the talk of my town, HALIFAX , NOVA SCOTIA.... everyone loved it ,, and i was in love with lEONARD--------------------, BIG TIME

Same. I like both

i agree :)

Agreed 👍

Olivia Hussey es la Julieta más Hermosa y Bella de todos los tiempos... ♥️💚💐

indeed, her looks seem almost unbelievable. I bet guys were scared to ask her out, she was so dam pretty

Sim, uma das mulheres mais lindas do cinema. Mesmo depois da velhice, ainda assim continua muito bonita.

She looks like a Snapchat filter that softens your features 😊

jambroqc or used to be

A legszebb Rómeó és Júlia voltak...nem is akarom más szinészekkel látni ezt a darabot

Vicious Oz well she's like 70 now

She's beautiful for the age she is now, just as she was beautiful at the age she was then. Getting older doesn't mean getting ugly. Sad reading some of the comments here. Like, how DARE she age like all of us will huh?

StudioStyx 🌹

Because Lana took the melody for make it song ☺️

Me too

Suzanne Castillo oh shit I just realized

@@fruzsinamaczko9363 'took', she bought it. And so what, she created something so beautiful

@@kluasvt828 because she couldn't make something beautiful for herself. An artist should generally speaking be capable of doing that. Inspiration is one thing. Buying a whole chunk of song to fill in your own lack is quite another.

I turned 70 in January. My Juliet, who I have been married to since 1976, is a few months older than me.

That’s awesome!

♥️ 😢

Upon this May's fair stage, I mark the turning of seventy years in my life's grand play. Forty-five years hence, I chanced upon my Juliet, whose beauty and grace doth rival the very stars in their celestial dance. As the sands of time flow through the hourglass, my love for her doth but grow, her charm and desirability blossoming like the sweetest rose in the garden of my affections.

@@riotelaviv Great post! Sounds very Shakespearean! 👍

Very trrue t..

Exactly

I concurr yet the priest played by Paul Giamatti. Mr. GIAMATTI portrayal is much more inbued with love & concern for Romeo & his Juliet. The extent of anguish when the priest sees his plans go awry in juliets death is a high point in the film. The priest from the filming 1967 is okay but he just doesn't bring the emotion out as does Paul Giamatti. My partner says Douglass booth as romeo, Oliver hussey as juliet put & Giamatti put into the newer film would be spectacular! maybe someone in the future will be able to switch those characters into the new film. To me, both tybalts are good as are the king, though I did like mercutio in the first film better, also thought the nurse maid in the newest film is much better.....

Sorry, I prefer George Cukor's 1936 versión.

❤

Totalmente!!!! 😉

lmfaoooooo

omg lol

+KeIsey | Minecraft and More! You were on Lana's old money video too!!!

OMFG :D

Best comment of the year xD

Yeah, my class watched this version and I loved it, but some other classes watched the newer version with Leo and didn't like it.

+Emperor Of Persia - EVER!

Agree, and what a video to highlight it. An enduring song able to match this enduring story.

Emperor Of Persia I prefer the 2013 version

Indeed. It remains unbeateable. No actual version can reach the beauty and sensibility of this one.

amen to that

Tess Crelli iii

And he is too beautiful too!

@@larisa7831 both are very good looking 10000 times better than nowadays actors and actresses....So natural ❤

@@ritam7288 I agree! Thx!

@@larisa7831 Actually in that time everything was far better....there were real seasons,people..everything

@@ritam7288 Very interesting! I didn't watch the movie because i haven't got free time, but in the holiday, I will watch! I am obsessd for the movie story! Sorry for the mistake!

*absolutely stunning boy meets absolutely stunning girl

Tuyet qua

The look they give each other is so genuine. Really, I mean THAT'S the look. 😉. Sends a chill up my spine every time. And a little bit of hope that just maybe. MAYBE? I'LL SEE THAT LOOK JUST ONE MORE TIME BEFORE I GO.

We were all young once.. This movie and this song truly define the passion of being young and how it doesn't last forever.. Epic

I agree, that scene is hauntingly beautiful

He did, it was perfect.

He only loved what he saw. Even friar Lawrence said that. The whole play happened within 4 days

Shay Roemer actually 6 days

@@Silasroemer and Romeo was 16, Juliet 13

oh yeah also the actor who played romeo kinda looks like troy bolton

julie miller Very true

I don't know. She has a daughter and her daughter is fugly.

glorymanheretosleep hardly

God, the comments on this video are atrocious. People really will ruin any bit of simple beauty. Humanity is screwed.

Her daughter used to be a tax unattractive, but she's getting prettier as she ages. She never had a child with anyone as attractive as Leonard Whiting...

Zeffirelli was a gay.

Александр Ильин and?

I read that as dictator first.

Dwarfhunter That’s funny. El Duce lol.

?!? I think it’s better that you read something about italian history. Zeffirelli is a person , and Duce that is Mussolini, is another. When people talk about history or art in Italy we always read the most stupid gigantic things..HOW MUCH IGNORANCE. Ciao!

Listen to Whiting's version on RU-vid!

Same!!! This song stayed with me.

Idem ! 😢

the older we got, the more we understand the meaning of love as Shakespeare understood it, rooted in our death instinct.

The music was adapted from period music of the time and played on period instruments. The costumes were spot on. And the actors were absolutely perfect. I always appreciated that he used age-appropriate actors for the main characters. Definitely the best version of this classic love story. In my opinion, modern versions set in modern times just do not do justice to Shakespeare!

i love this movie, its one of Franco Zefferelli's Best Movies of all time!! Can you send me these lyrics. thank you.

ARGI ,GOD BLESS YOU .YOU MAKE ME BELIEVE IN LOVE AGAIN ,,GOD BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU A LOOOOOOG AND LOVELY LIFE

not being mean but it doesn't say love is a task. it says love is a pass time

Love is a task and it never will pall. Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall. Cupid rules us all."

It's love is a pass time, that never will pall

They both would have lived if Friar John would have delivered the letter and Romeo not go to such extremes. .-. The Friar could have personally delivered the message to him. We had a big discussion in class about the many holes in his plan. Still. Good movie.

rip

Rotten ending.

Alexa Floress just a few minutes really

It was a play, not reality.

stop😔💔

The misunderstanding that she was only sleeping, so sad

Or not

They should've had a happy ending

Yeah❤!!But in today's generation no one will understand:(

WONDERFUL 💎🌹🌻🌷🌈💞

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That’s it!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Exactly

Nooooo, Leonard is much better that these two. Nothing in common with Frodo!

We watched this movies this year, my freshman year. Me and my friend Jacky couldn't stop staying how cute Romeo and Tybalt was. This is how I met my (ex)boyfriend. He was joking around calling himself Tybalt. He heard me say Tybalt was hot when talking to Jacky. He was like "So, you think I'm hot" I said yeah and we got to know each other and eventually started dating, then broke up because of his ex, also named Katelyn

Katelyn Jones Lol. Hot story. I have this movie on VHS. Remember VHS? Lol. Anyway SELENA brought me here. The TEJANO star.😀

Sarah Stewart I miss Selena....

not to mention Juliet's HUGE TITS ahem . . . ( I guess that's what we all were talking about when we talked about it ~_~ )

@@dewinmoonl So funny that you mentioned this! I saw this when it came out in 1968 with my Jr High school class. That's all the girls could talk about (I think they were jealous) and also Len Whiting being so cute. It's good to know the many reactions to this film are universal and timeless.

I agree.

2 Oscar, 3 Golden Globe, 1 BAFTA , 5 Ezüst Szalag , és 1 David di Donatello díj, azért nem semmi teljesítmény... ez a legnépszerűbb filmes feldolgozása a tragédiának

Agree absolutely!

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But there's a Leo in this one too lol :)

The Leo version is actually pretty good. I just think people were thrown off by its "modern" and comedic style.

@@tesscrelli783 How is young love funny? My experience was terrifying. I think Shakespeare captured that much.

@@plusfour1 You mistook my intentions, I was simply saying that the "Leo version" of Romeo and Juliet is shot and scripted in a more comedic fashion than its older counterpart (aka the 1968 movie). Nowhere did I say that young love was funny (though I do believe that it is often quite ridiculous, and I agree that Shakespeare did intend to portray that in Romeo and Juliet). Hopefully that cleared up any misconceptions about what I meant.

It’s less a love story and a warning tale of impulsive behaviors. They are blinded by passion and bad decision making, that’s why they fail.

Amen! (Did you know that William Shakespeare contributed more than 1700 new words to the English language that we still use today?)

What is god?

@Maria hi! But I though he took the story from other guy and changed some things

@@talehseferov8778 do you know about God our Father?

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Имя актёра Леонард, а не Леонардо

Бедные дети - такие юные

Лучшего фильма о Ромео и Джульеты еще не сняли

Мама твоя гениальная

guitars23 and she is half Argentine (by her father) so as an Argentine guy I'm very proud of her- A lovely person & very humble-

Carlos Rangel really- well, if you know SOMETHING about my country, Argentina, you would be proud to be part of this land- And if your intention is to begin a discussion, sorry... Argentine people are not so stupid to do so- I think you are from Mexico, well, i would not be so proud of being a mexican, considering the terrible things that happens there- Jealously maybe? it's your problem, not mine- And don't u ever insult my country- Don't do it- it puts u in a patetic situation-

Carlos Rangel It's disgusting to read such a commentary here- To talk in the insulting way you did about a Country u probably don't know. I have many Argentine friends and I have been there 3 times- And I love it's culture & mix of races. How rude & unpolite u are!!. YES!. Argentines have all the reasons in the world to be proud of his country- From where you are from? Or it's a secret Mr Rangel? I hate people who uses youtube to insult cultures, countries & people-

Carlos Rangel as an Argentine girl I feel insulted by your comment so I beg the person who posted this video to delete this guy from here- Put it in my place for a second, if somebody insults your country and your people... what would u do?- Olivia Hussey is half Argentine and English, that is NOT an excuse to such a comment- I have friends in Mexico and I love the Country and it's people: You Carlos Rangel are an exception-

anamariaytomas don't bother ana maria, this piece of nothing is lost in his own patetic life- We, argentines ARE PROUD, yes, and we have many reasons to be. A piece of Europe in South America, so the visitors says.

I agree and I have seen all versions except for the new one coming out they can never top this 1968 movie!! Thanks for posting.

Loulou Willis If you mean the 2013 version, don't watch it. Terrible.

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