What Light From Yonder Plexiglas Breaks?
Jan. 18th, 2001 03:43 pmLast night I watched the strangest remake of Romeo and Juliet ever. It's called Tromeo and Juliet, and is made by Troma films. This is R&J done in soft-core porn, low-budget, b-movie style. They took quite a bit of liberty with Shakespeare's script, changing the ending to a happy one (happy meaning that Tromeo and Juliet don't die but live "happily ever after") involving incest. Tromeo's father, Monty Que, was the owner of a film company much like Tromeo, but is ruined, and thus is the start of the Que/Capulet strife. Juliet, a vegetarian is to marry London, who is the owner of a meat company. Strange stuff. Only Troma would find an excuse to show a woman getting her nipple pierced (in painful detail) in a version of R&J. The subject line of this entry comes from the movie, which is from the scene where Tromeo finds Juliet in a plexiglas cage, put there in bondage gear as punishment by her drunken father. The more I think about it, the stranger it is. The apothecary in this story is a Rastafarian named Fu Chang who runs an opium den. Juliet gets out of her marriage to London by turning into a cow. When London sees her, he jumps out of a third-floor window. Oh, and there's Juliet's lesbian nurse.
Well, I'm leaving for Seattle in about half an hour. We're finally going to go! And I'll finally get a lamp and a rug. Yay!
Well, I'm leaving for Seattle in about half an hour. We're finally going to go! And I'll finally get a lamp and a rug. Yay!