re: #649 Alouette

I don’t like “cutesy” adaptations of Shakespeare. I remember there was some totally stupid version of “Twelfth Night” set at a modern high school in order to appeal to teenagers. What next, a vampire version of Macbeth?

Ol’ Bill might have approved, though. He was totally into appealing to all kinds of audiences and packing the house.

I don’t like tween adaptations of Shakespeare either, but the way they did Romeo & Juliet is cute in the sense that adults will get the references and the larger play at work. Kids will see a movie about two families of garden gnomes fighting over their respective gardens while a boy from one garden wants to be with a girl from the other.

They also have a scene in the middle of the film with a statue of Shakespeare (played by Patrick Stewart) talking about the real play with Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and telling him how it *should* end.