I'm sorry they randomly break into song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-CN9lJvYo

To start off, looking for a video wasn't extremely difficult, but wasn't all that easy, either. I searched for videos with many different relations to the book and even a few lines, but was not successful. Finally, I went to Youtube and searched for literally: Romeo and Juliet. There were many scenes from the actual movie but I decided to choose this video. I know that they mention Shakespeare and how alike Romeo and Juliet they are and that is not encouraged for this assignment, but I think they are similar for different reasons. First of all, I think that Jimmy and Mary Jane act exactly like them- pretty dumb. They are "bubbling with love" like Romeo and Juliet and act foolishly. Also, because they get married very quickly and it all seems pretty sudden. Finally, these two couples are alike because they are clueless about the ending. These people think they'll turn out really 'swell' but like Romeo and Juliet, they could be destined to stay apart from each other.. 

Romeo and Juliet photo !

Aahhh! I know this picture is heeawg and it doesn't fit, but this reminds me of a scene from Romeo and Juliet. The picture has a guy who reminds me of Romeo, and a girl with a funny hairdo that reminds me of Juliet- they are holding hands and they look like they're in love. This photo looks like the scene after Romeo confesses his love for Juliet, and after seeing she was looking for him, he comes over to her balcony, (or in this case fire escape) and they tell each other how much they're in love. Here's the URL address.... :]

fujishobo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/movie/west.side.story.jpg

ROMEO and JULIET: ACT TWO !

In Romeo and Juliet, act two, many shocking things have happened- and our class is not even finished with the entire act yet.. One of the most interesting parts of this act, to me, was when Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. In this act, Romeo stays behind when Benvolio and Mercutio leave the Capulet, their enemy's, party. His friend and cousin assume Romeo has gone home, and leave him not knowing that he's still there looking for his new love, Juliet. He searches and circles around the Capulet house looking for Juliet's room so he can see her again. Not knowingly, he confesses his love for Juliet while she's nearby and she overhears him. So they meet again, and Juliet goes from, "oh, this is wrong" to "oh, let's get married tomorrow" in a matter of minutes. 

I chose this part of the act because it was so sudden and stood out in my mind after reading through four scenes. I found it interesting how deep Romeo fell in love with Juliet so soon. I don't really know if love at first sight is real, but it sounds like that's what happened between them. If I were in a situation like this, I probably wouldn't marry the guy quite so quickly. It would also make me really upset that our families hated each other for some feud that started 38,764,975,092 years ago. Have I ever had an experience like this before in my life? No. Well... not really. I may have met somebody and thought they were cool, but I have never been almost engaged, and my family doesn't hate any other family... that I know of. I think that this part of the story has gotten really entertaining and I am excited to keep reading. :] 

Characters in Romeo and Juliet.

In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, each character has a very unique personality. Especially Romeo Montague. He is probably the most dramatic character I have ever read about. Romeo seems like a nice guy but really confused and extremely depressed and passionate. If he went to my school, he seems like he may be really quiet and would not be very social. In my mind, (especially after seeing clips from the movie we've been watching in class) he has brown hair, would be slightly gorgeous, but would look like an average fourteen year old. Romeo sounds like he would be a nice person, but I probably wouldn't know much about him because he would be so quiet.
Trying to identify a person I know is kind of hard, but I have a friend who acts somewhat like Romeo. My friend is sort of obsessed, like Romeo, about love and is really stupid when it comes to that subject. She can not figure out if the guy she likes feels the same way and bugs me to give her advice about it ! My friend has never liked anybody this much before and is very confused, like Romeo who also seems really inexperienced. So they are alike by the way they act toward that subject, otherwise my friend and Romeo do not have the same personality considering she is very loud and outgoing and he is very quiet and sad...









Yah!

Premonitions... ~OOO Scary~ ...not really.

To tell you the truth, I have not had very many special premonitions- and by many I mean none. I can read what people are thinking or what they are feeling pretty well, but that's pretty much it. Sometimes I feel like something will happen for sure at school and of course, being me, it never happens! It's actually quite annoying.. But the most memorable premonition-type experience happened a while ago in elementary school. I really hope nobody in my class that year remembers this...

I had a crush on this guy, (There was nothing better to do! Just kidding..) and I knew for a fact he didn't like me. But a group of the class sat around a campfire in the morning kind of playing truth or dare, minus the dare part. People went around in a circle apparently openly telling one another who they liked, and then the circle stopped at me. I was really embarrassed because I was sitting a couple feet away from him. So I told everybody I didn't know who I liked, and he came over and kept asking me over and over quietly while everybody was talking. Annoyed, I finally explained that I would tell him later. When later came, I had my friend come over with me, and I had a "premonition" I was going to let him guess and he'd just accept it. But when after he guessed all those barneys, (just kidding, they were all really nice) in my class, he finally guessed himself and I said yes. It didn't happen exactly the way I saw it coming- he climbed up a tree. So my premonition came true to somewhat of an extent, because he didn't seem weird about the whole thing- he wanted to know! Sometimes we have premonitions about the future- sometimes good ones, sometimes bad ones, sometimes crazy ones... But to answer the question, yes, I guess I have had a premonition.

... kind of.

:]

Shakespearean Stories.

William Shakespeare has written plays that have influenced many modern movies. Most involve love, death, etc. which make good plots for many films currently. Many movies that I have seen I now realize have been a somewhat parallel to some Shakespeare plays, and there was one in particular that I favored the most. I have seen this movie probably a couple more times than necessary, (lol), 10 Things I Hate About You. This movie is not listed under one of the categories Mrs. Gilman mentioned, but is actually based off of the play, "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare..

I think that Shakespeare has influenced the cinemaas greatly. There are many concepts that he took from everyday life, (sort of) and transformed them into plays using his Shakespearean language and with a little, (and by little I mean usually a lot) more drama.. Shakespeare invented some interesting plots that many people love to read, recite, or watch many times because of how wonderful his stories are. William Shakespeare's stories were so popular, that when movies became remakes of these plays or parallel to their stories attracts a lot of the general audience. Many people who maybe think Shakespeare is boring and complicated will be suprised when they may have actually liked a movie based off of his plots and translated to modern language, but then again1 they may not. Shakespeare has most deff influenced movies nowadsays and are really great!

:)

Shakespeare

Watching A Midsummer Night's Dream in class was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. I expected (from what I have heard about Shakespeare) that it would be extremely difficult to understand the Shakespearean language and I also assumed for some reason that this movie would be really boring. After pausing the movie a few times, discussing what was going on, and taking notes (although I hate taking notes) I found the story to be pretty entertaining.  The language has become more understandable to me every day and I actually enjoyed it. Apparently the movie was set in the 19th century when Shakespeare's plays were really set in the 17th century, so I don't really know what to think about the setting. The characters are kind of interesting and I thought the language was understandable and I didn't mind it too much, although it definitely wasn't like the writing we read in books now.

Well now that I have understood Shakespeare isn't as tough as I thought, I am actually kind of looking forward to reading Romeo and Juliet. We are apparently going to read the play aloud in class and I have heard many things about it. I have heard it's very dramatic with the ending, and the fact that Romeo and Juliet are not allowed to be together. Another thing I have heard about this play is that is really beautiful yet really sad. So I am not quite sure what to expect yet, but I am looking forward to trying it out!

:]