Romeo and Juliet as you've never seen it before!
Here's how it begins:
NARRATOR
Good evening...
...and welcome to "Tales for the L33T."
In today's society of instant messaging, chatlines and
mass-multiplayer online games, a new language is born.
Spoken by many, understood by few, "L33T" is a language
in which numbers replace letters, brackets make sentences,
and an asterik actually is a correction of an error.
With the coming of this new speech, children and adults
alike have begun to slowly forget what English is.
Rather than try to combat this new language, I've decided
to help the "L33T" understand some of English's finest
literature.
It seems only fair that L33Ts should be exposed
to the same world we are exposed to.
William Shakespeare, a 17th century writer, presented
the story of two people deeply in love with eachother
to the point where no one could stop their love.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy...
The first real online-only movie with deeper meaning beyond inapropriate slapstick or tragic nonsense. At first, any easily available online movies became popular simply because they existed. Utter crap, or as some would say, outsider art, slipped into popular internet culture simply with brute force (where force equals availability).
In the last year or so, huge numbers of internet-only Flash (as well as Quicktime) videos have become available with
instantaneous availability. If a viewer of the video wants to pass along the video, she simply has to copy a URL to someone, whether via email or via instant messaging.
L33t H4x0r R0m30 4nd Jul13t is, essentially, the
timeless story of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. For those who
have been living in mud flaps all their lives, Romeo and Juliet is a love story involving lovebirds from
feuding households, yadda yadda yadda, they get married on the side, yadda yadda
yadda, long story short there's an ending involving blood and swords so I'm sure
this same story plays out all over your village in Southern Iraq... Regardless,
here in America we lose touch with basic prehistoric history, such as the time
when there were knights and stuff and back when England like
owned us or something. We have to play these classic tales over and over again to make sure we don't forget about stuff.
Playmakers throughout the centuries have replayed the story of
Romeo and Juliet with drastic variations in costume, music, set designs.
Moreover, the story has been also told in mediums other than plays, such as books,
cartoons, songs, and even movies.
Not only has the method for telling the story evolved over the years, but also
the actual story-line itself. Directors often take liberties with a portion of
the play, like a signature. The director's change is usually a subtle nuance,
undetectable to the untrained eye. The director of this piece,
however, takes a more visually abrupt detour at one point, leaving quite a
visible signature. To his benefit, the brief signature interlude does not intrude on the story line and actually
adds to the creative value of the piece.
You want creative? Ok, how about the fact that the entire thing
is done in l33t sp34k. Yes, there is no sound other than the music, which
makes for a fantastic soundtrack by the way. I forgot to mention: all but one
character is nothing more than a stick figure. The simplicity of the drawings
do not diminish its greatness one bit.
If that doesn't sell it, how about the fact that it has a star-warsesque introduction. Would you believe it can convert everyday
household raisins into absolute power? Yes? Ok, then go watch it.
Here is the golden treat, the URL live and in person:
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Ok, look, maybe I didn't explain it very well, but this actually a really cool experience, so go watch it now. The writeup sucks, yeah, but there's not much to say about it other than what I said. The actual thing is really cool. So go watch it now.
BishopRed1 says i didnt think it'd be funny but omfg.
Intro Credits
Intro
Act 1 Scene 1
music - upbeat
Act 1 Scene 3
music - sad
Act 1 Scene 4
music - sad
Act 1 Scene 5
music - fast - "What is Love?" by Haddaway (from SNL)
Act 2 Scene 2
music - sad
Act 2 Scene 69 (sic)
music - none
Act 2 Scene 4
music - none
Act 2 Scene 6
music - none
Act 3 Scene 1
music - dramatic
Act 3 Scene 3
music - none
Act 3 Scene 5
music - none
Act 4 Scene 1
music - none then dramatic
Act 4 Scene 3
music - highly dramatic
Act 4 Scene 5
music - highly dramatic
Act 5 Scene 1
music - highly dramatic then none
Act 5 Scene 3
music - none then highly dramatic then overly dramatic
crazy interlude then back to story then back to
crazy interlude
Fin
Outro
Outro Credits
References:
TehBesto
psychic smiley
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/romjul.html
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