Blog 8 Who I Will Be Playing in Ivan's Adaptation of R&J



In Ivan's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet I will be playing Tybalt. His adaptation is a modern parody of the classic play. It mocks the unrealistic aspect of the original play. Imagine the death scenes in the original play, than amp the exaggeration up by 100x to see what we will have in store in our short film. Romeo and Mercutio will start out in their sacred room. They will be debating about going to the party or not. They will ultimalty decide to go to the Capulet party. Romeo meets Juliet and has sex with her. Tybalt will over see this and follow the two back to the sacred room of Montague. Tybalt will then challenge Romeo to a game of NBA 2k18 on the XBOX. Romeo will deny. Then Mercurio will jump at the opportunity to play him. Tybalt will crush Mercurio in the video game until Mercurio dies of a heart attack. Romeo will avenge Mercurio by beating Tybalt equally as bad in FIFA. At the end of the game, Tybalt will be furious and accuse Romeo of cheating. He will then come at Romeo, but Romeo will respond by throwing acid on Tybalt ultimately burning him alive. This is how the movie will end.

This will be a extremely unusual adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. I was skeptical at first on many of the ideas pitched. This will be a parody of the classic, not meant to be taken seriously. I think was the most challenging thing for me to wrap my head around, but with some revising of the original idea, I think we are heading in the right direction as a group. The audience should find this adaption both ridiculous and hysterical. Our hope is for the audience is to see the humor, and think about the unrealistic aspect of the original Romeo and Juliet. Our main goal is to get a good grade and make the class die with laughter when we present our project.

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