• Romeo Plus Juliet

  • Mar 11 2022
  • Length: 28 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • MJ introduces her nostalgia pick, Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996).  The four go on to discuss:

    • personal reminiscences of seeing the film originally
    • how it was aggressively marketed to teenage girls
    • music videos & cinematic form
    • the soundtrack
    • Roger Ebert's review & boomer misunderstandings of the MTV generation
    • was Shakespeare punk?
    • would Shakespeare be cancelled if he was alive today?

    Then the group answers the pressing questions:

    • what costume would you wear to the ball?
    • marry/fuck/kill for Leo, Claire, and Paul Rudd

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