Aug. 5th, 2003

I just realized you don't let people comment on your journal.

Anyway, before you return the R&J DVD, screw around with the extras -- there's a hysterical bit in there where Luhrmann explains the horror that was pitching the film to the studios, and it includes this mini test-film he did with DiCaprio that is... well, strangely compelling would be the best way to put it.

And yeah -- the trilogy business is about the style of film, not the precise plots really. Will not keep ranting as I've somewhere to be, but you have so hit on a pet subject.

Also, if you can find the New Yorker interview with Luhrmann (parts of it are floating around the web, but not all of it as far as I can tell), it's pretty fascinating.

And yeah, Leguizamo just rocks my world as Tybalt. Claire Danes _still_ annoys me though, although I get why it was fun to use her as a dress up doll.
Roomie and I are watching The OC because someone she knows is on it. Not only is it really bad, it is incomprehensible in the same way that LA incomprehneible. There are a lot of good looking vacant boys in matching outfits (other than the one in the scuba suit) getting into fist fights and posing while superfluous women pretend it's about them.

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