You didn't know I was secretly a mind-blown artichoke ninja until you didn't realize it.
But now, I s'pose y'all ought to.
As promised,
Friday, December 9
6:10PM to 10:40PM
The theme?
Reality TV shows.
My house address: 1425-- actually, I don't feel comfortable posting that here.
but we won't solely reside there.
I promise to entertain you with all I've got.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
FINAL CASTINGS POSTED:
romeo: david lew cooper
juliet: Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger)
mercutio: lady gaga
benvolio: mr. finch
nurse: Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin)
friar lawrence: Marge Simpson
paris: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
capulet: mr. krabs
Romeo: David Lew Cooper
After participating in many studies of the past major Romeo and Juliet cinematic productions, I have come to the conclusion that they are all gorgeous. It may even seem like the primary factor in Romeo's existence is that he is attractive, so that he is both (a) good for revenue, and (b) good for the reader wanting Juliet to fall for Romeo rather than Paris. Romeo also has to be a fairly wholesome seeming man, at least enough to agree to marrying the fairly perfect Juliet within one night of meeting her. He also must be very romantic, and this cannot be taken as creepy because of how ridiculously gorgeous he is.
Therefore, I have chosen David Lew Cooper to play the highly acclaimed role of Romeo. I first spotted this 19-year-old at a one-act play festival in Canton. He played a rented boyfriend, and was so incredibly both gorgeous and romantic (contrasting vibrantly to the lead female role) that the director, our own Mr. Fox, won the award of fan favorite. I personally loved the play that David Lew Cooper had actually written, titled Alone Or Alone. He can be supported by locals in our lovely little English class because of how close to Ann Arbor he is located. I'd say that having him play the role of Romeo with similar charm, but perhaps demonstrate even more emotion than sheer perfection at what he does-- at least, for a traditional version. A role of Romeo believing he knows exactly what he's doing whilst still being adorable and mushy-gushy could be spectacular-- we'll discuss it later.
Benvolio: Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch)
Benvolio is, of course, benevolent. This is shown strongly in his efforts to stop each brawl, exemplified even in the first scene, "I do but keep the peace; put up thy sword; or manage it to part these men with me." He is also gracious enough to persistently try to cheer Romeo up, rather than whatever one would refer to Mercutio's approach as. He gets to be the good guy and isn't restricted to death.
I feel like the character of Atticus Finch would be perfect, if not melodramatic, for the role of Benvolio. As Atticus Finch was designated the seventh best character to play from 1900, I certainly think that the niceties of Attticus will transfer well. The main difference between these two characters is the level of wisdom for each. Benvolio is still just a boy, with friends and crashing parties and similar things for teenage boys. Atticus has seen so much more throughout his years as a lawyer and citizen in his changing environment, so if Gregory would keep that in mind I think we'll be just about set.
Capulet: Mr. Krabs
Capulet is a very wealthy man. In Baz Luhrman's motion picture, he made Montague and Capulet business competitors-- apparently very fierce competitors. His main role is Juliet's father, who can at times get very, very angry and controlling. An example of Capulet when he is angry from not being in control is, "I tell thee what—get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not answer me." I want to stress enough how much control means to Capulet; the only time I believed he was being kind was when Romeo arrived at his party, and I believe that is because Capulet had total control over the situation: it was, after all, his party, and his decision as to which guests were allowed to stay. However, when Capulet is not proven to be in control, such as the incident of Juliet's not willing to marry Paris or the street fight in act one, Capulet was proven to have a very vicious side to his wealthy persona.
Mr. Krabs has proven himself to have many similar qualities as those of Capulet. The one I instantly thought of was the business competitors angle, as between Plankton and Mr. Krabs, Mr. Krabs has certainly proven himself to be vicious in business even when the competitor is not really worthy of being called a competitor at all. This leads me to believe that with a worthy rival, like Montague himself, Mr. Krabs could surprise all of us with his acting insight. I then believe that from his knowledge of having his own daughter, Pearl, Mr. Krabs would be able to connect to having his own daughter-- and the thought of having Pearl marry an offspring of Plankton would perhaps disgust Mr. Krabs sufficiently. The final aspect I recognize Mr. Krabs as having nailed would be that of control, though the control Mr. Krabs obsesses over is money. Money is just a form of control, though; the form of control that is Mr. Krabs' reason to exist. In the pursuit of money and further control, he has even fired Spongebob Squarepants, which can clearly be seen as solely because sometimes Spongebob gets to difficult to take control of.
Friar Lawrence: Marge Simpson
Friar Lawrence is a good person, but unfortunately gets tangled in business which is less than ideal. Unfortunately, he can't really neglect to see certain people, as it is his responsibility as a Friar to see everyone. Technically he is not required to help everyone, but he does-- or, at least from what we can tell, Romeo and Juliet. He is respected himself, but after certain actions many people may grow irritated with him.
Although this role is not very specific, I'd very much enjoy having Marge Simpson take it on. Marge Simpson herself grew up very well and went to college. Meeting Homer, like encountering Romeo and Juliet, however, did not help her successful path. Now within her family Marge traditionally has to take care of them, at least to some extent, but Marge is gracious enough by her own decisions not to divorce Homer Simpson (yet; we're still waiting).
Paris: Neil Patrick Harris (as Barney Stinson)
Paris is an interesting gentlemen. He doesn't care very much about the feelings of his bride-to-have-been, yet is very strong-willed, particularly when it came to Juliet. His tag name may be of the city Paris, which is now the city of romance, or as a Helen abductor . He is also quite wealthy and formal, as documented on the super brief characterization notes.
I love picturing Barney Stinson play Paris. He certainly has perfected not caring about the feelings of the ladies he plans on seducing. He also has a habit of manipulating everything he is not capable of doing into a challenge, one of which could easily be marrying Juliet. I think the formality of Paris could be almost made fun of in that Barney insists upon always wearing a suit, and that he is wealthy but no one is yet aware of the source of this money. Barney also works at a bank, which is a very symbolic job for the modern set of, "Careers which are respectable but boring." The main clashes wish the two characters are that Barney is strongly against marriage, and that in the end Paris wants to see Juliet and pay his respects daily. These could potentially be hilarious instances further making fun of Paris (what if his wanting to marry Juliet was fake and he really did just want to sleep with her? Is his mourning really just mourning the loss of a challenge he had put himself up to?), but we'll work that out later. I'm very excited.
Mercutio: Lady Gaga
The main things the texts has demonstrated about Mercutio is that his name represents his mercurial nature and that he is the messenger of the Gods. He speaks often of sex or other physical affections, and his statements generally demean women. He is the best friend of Romeo, but it is often seen as the friendship where Mercutio does odd things and Romeo has no real agreement nor disagreement. Mercutio must be at least fairly intimidating, too, because after Mercutio so endlessly makes fun of Romeo about his love for Rosaline, Romeo can only quietly say that Mercutio just doesn't understand.
Lady Gaga certainly demonstrates strong similarities to Mercutio, in nearly every aspect. She seems to have a very much mercurial nature in the change from role model about not changing yourself because you were born that way to dying everything and twisting her appearance and apparel enough so that she looks nothing like anything with either self respect or how she would naturally have developed. Her lack of clothes make her both very suggestive and demeaning to women (very similar to Ke$sha, they both seem to have created identities for young girls to relate to, but all they seem to do is sing about sex. I thought this was demeaning, but then I decided it may have evened the scores for men only singing about sex. If Lady Gaga really is trying to even the names of sleeping with many people by gender, then that would be lovely and a message I would be very excited to represent in my cinematic production). I also find Lady Gaga very intimidating, and I would certainly not want to yell at her for laughing at my broken heart. This should be interesting.
Nurse: Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin)
The Nurse, similar to the qualities we've seen in Mercutio, is lively, talkative, and often making rude jokes of physical love. She takes care of Juliet, who had wrapped herself in unfortunate business with Romeo. They have a strong enough relationship until the very end, at least enough for Juliet to inform the Nurse of Romeo. The Nurse was laughed at when trying to defend Juliet against her parents, because she does not have the affluence to back defenses against such powerful people.
Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was famous, and a lot of it matches up to this role very nicely. Sarah Palin appeared very lively, very talkative, and I'm sure that the rude sex jokes could be added in the range of qualities, next to the alcohol comments. Juliet could become the substitute for Sarah Palin's daughter who became pregnant, and the issue, although different, is a similar modernized tragedy of teenage girls. Tina Fey was excellent at demonstrating how out of her political league Sarah Palin was when she was running to be vice president, and I think this expression, as well as each other a combination of Sarah Palin and Tina Fey provided will be excellent at representing the Nurse.
Juliet: Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger)
Juliet is very practical and down to Earth. She's also brave and honest, which are very nice qualities for an adolescent girl. For so many years she was raised in her kingdom and obeyed only her parents. In this movie, she will go on to challenge everything she has been brought up believing. Juliet also challenges the sexism that was so strongly taking place in not only the 1600s, but throughout all of history and still alive today. Her tag name states Juliet to simply be a jewel, as every other characteristic emphasizes.
Hermione Granger demonstrates this role very well in the Harry Potter series, particularly the movies. Hermione, after being raised a muggle, changed rapidly to adapt to the life of a wizard. Hermione challenged both gender roles and the stereotypes against muggle-borns by being brilliant, and took risks to make the saving of Hogwarts so many times possible. Furthermore, so many people in this era take sex so lightly (just look at our pop culture), but Hermione and her romantic innocence certainly contradict just one more gender role. The only reason the movies represented Hermione better for the role of Juliet than the books because the last few movies have made her absolutely gorgeous, which represents the traditional view of Juliet much better than the barely attractive Hermione which was originally written about. The only thing we may have to work on is recreating Juliet's passion for Romeo, something which the teenage girl inside Emma Watson will be able to somewhat grasp, I'm sure.
juliet: Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger)
mercutio: lady gaga
benvolio: mr. finch
nurse: Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin)
friar lawrence: Marge Simpson
paris: Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson
capulet: mr. krabs
Romeo: David Lew Cooper
After participating in many studies of the past major Romeo and Juliet cinematic productions, I have come to the conclusion that they are all gorgeous. It may even seem like the primary factor in Romeo's existence is that he is attractive, so that he is both (a) good for revenue, and (b) good for the reader wanting Juliet to fall for Romeo rather than Paris. Romeo also has to be a fairly wholesome seeming man, at least enough to agree to marrying the fairly perfect Juliet within one night of meeting her. He also must be very romantic, and this cannot be taken as creepy because of how ridiculously gorgeous he is.
Therefore, I have chosen David Lew Cooper to play the highly acclaimed role of Romeo. I first spotted this 19-year-old at a one-act play festival in Canton. He played a rented boyfriend, and was so incredibly both gorgeous and romantic (contrasting vibrantly to the lead female role) that the director, our own Mr. Fox, won the award of fan favorite. I personally loved the play that David Lew Cooper had actually written, titled Alone Or Alone. He can be supported by locals in our lovely little English class because of how close to Ann Arbor he is located. I'd say that having him play the role of Romeo with similar charm, but perhaps demonstrate even more emotion than sheer perfection at what he does-- at least, for a traditional version. A role of Romeo believing he knows exactly what he's doing whilst still being adorable and mushy-gushy could be spectacular-- we'll discuss it later.
Benvolio: Gregory Peck (as Atticus Finch)
Benvolio is, of course, benevolent. This is shown strongly in his efforts to stop each brawl, exemplified even in the first scene, "I do but keep the peace; put up thy sword; or manage it to part these men with me." He is also gracious enough to persistently try to cheer Romeo up, rather than whatever one would refer to Mercutio's approach as. He gets to be the good guy and isn't restricted to death.
I feel like the character of Atticus Finch would be perfect, if not melodramatic, for the role of Benvolio. As Atticus Finch was designated the seventh best character to play from 1900, I certainly think that the niceties of Attticus will transfer well. The main difference between these two characters is the level of wisdom for each. Benvolio is still just a boy, with friends and crashing parties and similar things for teenage boys. Atticus has seen so much more throughout his years as a lawyer and citizen in his changing environment, so if Gregory would keep that in mind I think we'll be just about set.
Capulet: Mr. Krabs
Capulet is a very wealthy man. In Baz Luhrman's motion picture, he made Montague and Capulet business competitors-- apparently very fierce competitors. His main role is Juliet's father, who can at times get very, very angry and controlling. An example of Capulet when he is angry from not being in control is, "I tell thee what—get thee to church o' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not answer me." I want to stress enough how much control means to Capulet; the only time I believed he was being kind was when Romeo arrived at his party, and I believe that is because Capulet had total control over the situation: it was, after all, his party, and his decision as to which guests were allowed to stay. However, when Capulet is not proven to be in control, such as the incident of Juliet's not willing to marry Paris or the street fight in act one, Capulet was proven to have a very vicious side to his wealthy persona.
Mr. Krabs has proven himself to have many similar qualities as those of Capulet. The one I instantly thought of was the business competitors angle, as between Plankton and Mr. Krabs, Mr. Krabs has certainly proven himself to be vicious in business even when the competitor is not really worthy of being called a competitor at all. This leads me to believe that with a worthy rival, like Montague himself, Mr. Krabs could surprise all of us with his acting insight. I then believe that from his knowledge of having his own daughter, Pearl, Mr. Krabs would be able to connect to having his own daughter-- and the thought of having Pearl marry an offspring of Plankton would perhaps disgust Mr. Krabs sufficiently. The final aspect I recognize Mr. Krabs as having nailed would be that of control, though the control Mr. Krabs obsesses over is money. Money is just a form of control, though; the form of control that is Mr. Krabs' reason to exist. In the pursuit of money and further control, he has even fired Spongebob Squarepants, which can clearly be seen as solely because sometimes Spongebob gets to difficult to take control of.
Friar Lawrence: Marge Simpson
Friar Lawrence is a good person, but unfortunately gets tangled in business which is less than ideal. Unfortunately, he can't really neglect to see certain people, as it is his responsibility as a Friar to see everyone. Technically he is not required to help everyone, but he does-- or, at least from what we can tell, Romeo and Juliet. He is respected himself, but after certain actions many people may grow irritated with him.
Although this role is not very specific, I'd very much enjoy having Marge Simpson take it on. Marge Simpson herself grew up very well and went to college. Meeting Homer, like encountering Romeo and Juliet, however, did not help her successful path. Now within her family Marge traditionally has to take care of them, at least to some extent, but Marge is gracious enough by her own decisions not to divorce Homer Simpson (yet; we're still waiting).
Paris: Neil Patrick Harris (as Barney Stinson)
Paris is an interesting gentlemen. He doesn't care very much about the feelings of his bride-to-have-been, yet is very strong-willed, particularly when it came to Juliet. His tag name may be of the city Paris, which is now the city of romance, or as a Helen abductor . He is also quite wealthy and formal, as documented on the super brief characterization notes.
I love picturing Barney Stinson play Paris. He certainly has perfected not caring about the feelings of the ladies he plans on seducing. He also has a habit of manipulating everything he is not capable of doing into a challenge, one of which could easily be marrying Juliet. I think the formality of Paris could be almost made fun of in that Barney insists upon always wearing a suit, and that he is wealthy but no one is yet aware of the source of this money. Barney also works at a bank, which is a very symbolic job for the modern set of, "Careers which are respectable but boring." The main clashes wish the two characters are that Barney is strongly against marriage, and that in the end Paris wants to see Juliet and pay his respects daily. These could potentially be hilarious instances further making fun of Paris (what if his wanting to marry Juliet was fake and he really did just want to sleep with her? Is his mourning really just mourning the loss of a challenge he had put himself up to?), but we'll work that out later. I'm very excited.
Mercutio: Lady Gaga
The main things the texts has demonstrated about Mercutio is that his name represents his mercurial nature and that he is the messenger of the Gods. He speaks often of sex or other physical affections, and his statements generally demean women. He is the best friend of Romeo, but it is often seen as the friendship where Mercutio does odd things and Romeo has no real agreement nor disagreement. Mercutio must be at least fairly intimidating, too, because after Mercutio so endlessly makes fun of Romeo about his love for Rosaline, Romeo can only quietly say that Mercutio just doesn't understand.
Lady Gaga certainly demonstrates strong similarities to Mercutio, in nearly every aspect. She seems to have a very much mercurial nature in the change from role model about not changing yourself because you were born that way to dying everything and twisting her appearance and apparel enough so that she looks nothing like anything with either self respect or how she would naturally have developed. Her lack of clothes make her both very suggestive and demeaning to women (very similar to Ke$sha, they both seem to have created identities for young girls to relate to, but all they seem to do is sing about sex. I thought this was demeaning, but then I decided it may have evened the scores for men only singing about sex. If Lady Gaga really is trying to even the names of sleeping with many people by gender, then that would be lovely and a message I would be very excited to represent in my cinematic production). I also find Lady Gaga very intimidating, and I would certainly not want to yell at her for laughing at my broken heart. This should be interesting.
Nurse: Tina Fey (as Sarah Palin)
The Nurse, similar to the qualities we've seen in Mercutio, is lively, talkative, and often making rude jokes of physical love. She takes care of Juliet, who had wrapped herself in unfortunate business with Romeo. They have a strong enough relationship until the very end, at least enough for Juliet to inform the Nurse of Romeo. The Nurse was laughed at when trying to defend Juliet against her parents, because she does not have the affluence to back defenses against such powerful people.
Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin was famous, and a lot of it matches up to this role very nicely. Sarah Palin appeared very lively, very talkative, and I'm sure that the rude sex jokes could be added in the range of qualities, next to the alcohol comments. Juliet could become the substitute for Sarah Palin's daughter who became pregnant, and the issue, although different, is a similar modernized tragedy of teenage girls. Tina Fey was excellent at demonstrating how out of her political league Sarah Palin was when she was running to be vice president, and I think this expression, as well as each other a combination of Sarah Palin and Tina Fey provided will be excellent at representing the Nurse.
Juliet: Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger)
Juliet is very practical and down to Earth. She's also brave and honest, which are very nice qualities for an adolescent girl. For so many years she was raised in her kingdom and obeyed only her parents. In this movie, she will go on to challenge everything she has been brought up believing. Juliet also challenges the sexism that was so strongly taking place in not only the 1600s, but throughout all of history and still alive today. Her tag name states Juliet to simply be a jewel, as every other characteristic emphasizes.
Hermione Granger demonstrates this role very well in the Harry Potter series, particularly the movies. Hermione, after being raised a muggle, changed rapidly to adapt to the life of a wizard. Hermione challenged both gender roles and the stereotypes against muggle-borns by being brilliant, and took risks to make the saving of Hogwarts so many times possible. Furthermore, so many people in this era take sex so lightly (just look at our pop culture), but Hermione and her romantic innocence certainly contradict just one more gender role. The only reason the movies represented Hermione better for the role of Juliet than the books because the last few movies have made her absolutely gorgeous, which represents the traditional view of Juliet much better than the barely attractive Hermione which was originally written about. The only thing we may have to work on is recreating Juliet's passion for Romeo, something which the teenage girl inside Emma Watson will be able to somewhat grasp, I'm sure.
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