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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This adaptation included much of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's signature dirty jokes and bawdy humour. Probably the fact that one does not mess with Shakespeare is the only reason [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php ye olde Hays Office]] let the movie include the line "for the bawdy hand of the [sun]dial is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This adaptation included much of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's signature dirty jokes and bawdy humour. Probably the fact that one does not mess with Shakespeare is the only reason [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php ye olde Hays Office]] let the movie include the line "for the bawdy hand of the [sun]dial is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, noon", especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This adaptation included much of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's signature dirty jokes and bawdy humour. Probably the fact that one does not mess with Shakespeare is the only reason [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php thee ye olde Hays Office]] let the movie include the line "for the bawdy hand of the [sun]dial is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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* ArtImitatesArt: The paintings of Botticelli, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Gozzoli were studied to provide visual inspiration; and two academic advisers (John Tucker Murray of Harvard and William Strunk Jr. of Cornell) were flown to the set, with instructions to criticise the production freely.
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* ArtImitatesArt: The paintings of Botticelli, Creator/SandroBotticelli, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Gozzoli were studied to provide visual inspiration; and two academic advisers (John Tucker Murray of Harvard and William Strunk Jr. of Cornell) were flown to the set, with instructions to criticise the production freely.
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* {{Bambification}}: In the 1936 film, Juliet has a pet fawn just to emphasize her innocence.
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* {{Bambification}}: In the 1936 film, Juliet has a pet fawn just to emphasize her innocence.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This adaptation included much of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's signature dirty jokes and bawdy humour. We guess Probably the fact that one does not mess with Shakespeare is the only reason [[https://productioncode.dhwritings.com/multipleframes_productioncode.php thee Hays Office]] let the movie include the line "for the bawdy hand of the [sun]dial is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* AdaptationExpansion: A number of scenes are expanded as opportunities for visual spectacle, including the opening brawl (set against the backdrop of a religious procession), the wedding and Juliet's funeral. The party scene includes Rosaline (an unseen character in the text) who rebuffs Romeo. The role of Peter is enlarged, and played by Andy Devine as a faint-hearted bully. He speaks lines which Shakespeare gave to other Capulet servants, making him the instigator of the opening brawl
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* ArtImitatesArt: The paintings of Botticelli, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Gozzoli were studied to provide visual inspiration; and two academic advisers (John Tucker Murray of Harvard and William Strunk Jr. of Cornell) were flown to the set, with instructions to criticise the production freely.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Shakespeare filled his plays with dirty jokes but UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forbade suggestive humor or dirty words. It's rather amazing that the movie was able to get the line "for the bawdy hand of the dial ''[a sundial]'' is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Shakespeare filled his plays with dirty jokes but UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forbade suggestive humor or dirty words. It's rather amazing that GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the movie was able to get future, please check the line "for trope page to make sure your example fits the bawdy hand of the dial ''[a sundial]'' is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.current definition.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Shakespeare filled his plays with dirty jokes but UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forbade suggestive humor or dirty words. It's rather amazing that the movie was able to get the line "for the bawdy hand of the dial ''[a sundial]'' is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''"."''prick''"; the Nurse even registers a wickedly delighted reaction, acknowledging it to be an obvious sex joke.
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* BookEnds: The film opens with a sort of stylized storybook stage, in which Prince Escalus, the ruler of Athens (not a Chorus) as in the play, appears to deliver the "Two households" prologue. Then there's a shot of a painting of Verona, which zooms in to the Verona set and the story. The film ends by doing this in reverse; there's a zoom out from Verona, then the shot of the painting as the camera continues zooming out, then the stylized storybook stage, TheEnd.
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* BookEnds: The film opens with a sort of stylized storybook stage, in which Prince Escalus, the ruler of Athens (not a Chorus) Chorus as in the play, play), appears to deliver the "Two households" prologue. Then there's a shot of a painting of Verona, which zooms in to the Verona set and the story. The film ends by doing this in reverse; there's a zoom out from Verona, then the shot of the painting as the camera continues zooming out, then the stylized storybook stage, TheEnd.
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It stars Creator/TheMarxBrothers in a story where--no, just kidding, it's an adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The Montagues and Capulets, two noble households of Verona, hate each other for reasons unknown. One Romeo Montague is depressed because he has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Rosaline, a distant relative of the Capulet family. He crashes a Capulet party in hopes of seeing Rosaline, but once he meets Lord Capulet's beautiful daughter Juliet, he instantly falls in love and all thoughts of Rosaline are forgotten.
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It stars Creator/TheMarxBrothers in a story where--no, just kidding, it's an adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The Montagues and Capulets, two noble "two households both alike in dignity" of Verona, hate each other for reasons unknown. One Romeo Montague is depressed because he has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Rosaline, a distant relative of the Capulet family. He crashes a Capulet party in hopes of seeing Rosaline, but once he meets Lord Capulet's beautiful daughter Juliet, he instantly falls in love and all thoughts of Rosaline are forgotten.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Way too old!]]
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* BalconyWooingScene: It's pretty famous! There's also what may be a satirical echo on this, as Mercutio is repeatedly seen flirting with what looks like a bunch of hookers, enjoying the air from a second-floor balcony.
* CharacterFilibuster: Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech, in which he babbles on about basically nothing for over thirty lines. John Barrymore, who by this stage in his career was routinely showing up drunk to work, nailed the whole speech anyway.
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* CompositeCharacter: Prince Escalus of Verona is merged with the Chorus, which allows him to deliver both the opening and closing lines.
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** Peter the servant gets the lines of another minor character, Sampson, in the "do you bite your thumb at us?" opening scene.
** Prince Escalus of Verona is merged with the Chorus, which allows him to deliver both the opening and closing
** Peter the servant gets the lines of another minor character, Sampson, in the "do you bite your thumb at us?" opening scene.
* DiabolusExMachina: The final tragedy only plays out because, out of nowhere, the Friar gets detained in a quarantined town after an outbreak of plague, so he can't get a message to Romeo.
* FauxDeath: Juliet takes poison to fake her death. It doesn't work out.
* GallowsHumor: Mercutio's whole "you shall find me a grave man" dying speech.
* GardenOfLove: Straight from the play, the BalconyWooingScene has Romeo in the garden, wooing Juliet.
* GardenOfLove: Straight from the play, the BalconyWooingScene has Romeo in the garden, wooing Juliet.
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* WidowsWeeds: Both Lady Montague and Lady Capulet are wearing mourning clothes with veils in the final scene.
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* WidowsWeeds: Both Lady Montague and Lady Capulet are wearing mourning clothes with veils in the final scene.scene.
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: A central theme, as the children of two blood-enemy clans fall in love.
* YoungLoveVersusOldHate: A central theme, as the children of two blood-enemy clans fall in love.
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* {{Bambification}}: In the 1936 film, Juliet has a pet fawn just to emphasize her innocence.
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* TheDyingWalk: This movie is one of several adaptations that has Mercutio walking unsteadily away as he delivers his "you shall find me a grave man" dying speech.
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* GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks: The Friar has the standard movie scientist's arrangement of exotic glass flasks and beakers bubbling with smoke.
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* SexyDiscretionShot: Romeo climbs over Juliet's balcony, and we get a cut away to shots of the trees and the stars in the sky and such.
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''Romeo and Juliet'' is a 1936 film directed by Creator/GeorgeCukor.
It stars Creator/TheMarxBrothers in a story where--no, just kidding, it's an adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The Montagues and Capulets, two noble households of Verona, hate each other for reasons unknown. One Romeo Montague is depressed because he has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Rosaline, a distant relative of the Capulet family. He crashes a Capulet party in hopes of seeing Rosaline, but once he meets Lord Capulet's beautiful daughter Juliet, he instantly falls in love and all thoughts of Rosaline are forgotten.
Juliet falls in love with Romeo as well, despite the fact that her parents are pushing her to marry another nobleman, Paris. With the help of Juliet's faithful Nurse, the two are married in secret. However, the next day Juliet's cousin Tybalt kills Romeo's cousin Mercutio in a duel, followed by Romeo killing Tybalt. Romeo is then banished from Verona. Can these StarCrossedLovers find happiness? Of course not!
Creator/LeslieHoward and Creator/NormaShearer star as the title characters (they were [[DawsonCasting 43 and 34 years old respectively]]). Other members of the AllStarCast include Creator/BasilRathbone as Tybalt and Creator/JohnBarrymore as Mercutio.
Compare the acclaimed 1968 film ''Film/{{Romeo and Juliet|1968}}'', or the 1996 modernized version with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio and Creator/ClaireDanes, ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''.
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* BookEnds: The film opens with a sort of stylized storybook stage, in which Prince Escalus, the ruler of Athens (not a Chorus) as in the play, appears to deliver the "Two households" prologue. Then there's a shot of a painting of Verona, which zooms in to the Verona set and the story. The film ends by doing this in reverse; there's a zoom out from Verona, then the shot of the painting as the camera continues zooming out, then the stylized storybook stage, TheEnd.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: The climactic scene in the Capulet family crypt has a lot of contrast between light and shadow, being lit by candles underground.
* CompositeCharacter: Prince Escalus of Verona is merged with the Chorus, which allows him to deliver both the opening and closing lines.
* DeathGlare: Tybalt is basically required by law to do this, and indeed Basil Rathbone does whenever he spots Montagues in the town square.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: How sweet and innocent is Juliet? The first time she comes on screen she is feeding a doe.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Only one half of Romeo's face is lit, by a single candle, as he's in the creepy apothecary's shop buying his poison.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: Juliet is first seen to revive in the end when her hands, which were clasped together under her chin, unclasp and move down.
* FlyAwayShot: The film ends with a fly away zoom out from the main square in Verona (thus book-ending the first shot of the film).
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Heavy tolling bells set the appropriate depressing mood for Juliet's funeral.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Shakespeare filled his plays with dirty jokes but UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forbade suggestive humor or dirty words. It's rather amazing that the movie was able to get the line "for the bawdy hand of the dial ''[a sundial]'' is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''".
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The Capulets keep a couple of little people in their household, apparently just for amusement. They are seen wrestling in the party scene where Romeo meets Juliet.
* ParlorGames: Rosaline is seen playing blind man's bluff.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the play Lady Montague dies offstage. In this film she is seen at the end, wearing mourning clothes.
* SpitefulSpit: Peter, the Nurse's manservant, spits at the Capulets in the opening scene.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: One of the hookers that Mercutio likes to flirt with pulls a string out of her Compartment and lowers it down from a balcony. Mercutio ties a flask of liquor to the string and the hooker hauls it back up.
* VideoCredits: Video of all the main players at the start of the film for the opening credits.
* TheVoiceless: Rosaline is TheGhost in the play but here she actually appears onscreen. She is playing blind man's bluff at the Capulet party, and she sneers at Romeo and turns away after he finds her.
* WidowsWeeds: Both Lady Montague and Lady Capulet are wearing mourning clothes with veils in the final scene.
It stars Creator/TheMarxBrothers in a story where--no, just kidding, it's an adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. The Montagues and Capulets, two noble households of Verona, hate each other for reasons unknown. One Romeo Montague is depressed because he has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Rosaline, a distant relative of the Capulet family. He crashes a Capulet party in hopes of seeing Rosaline, but once he meets Lord Capulet's beautiful daughter Juliet, he instantly falls in love and all thoughts of Rosaline are forgotten.
Juliet falls in love with Romeo as well, despite the fact that her parents are pushing her to marry another nobleman, Paris. With the help of Juliet's faithful Nurse, the two are married in secret. However, the next day Juliet's cousin Tybalt kills Romeo's cousin Mercutio in a duel, followed by Romeo killing Tybalt. Romeo is then banished from Verona. Can these StarCrossedLovers find happiness? Of course not!
Creator/LeslieHoward and Creator/NormaShearer star as the title characters (they were [[DawsonCasting 43 and 34 years old respectively]]). Other members of the AllStarCast include Creator/BasilRathbone as Tybalt and Creator/JohnBarrymore as Mercutio.
Compare the acclaimed 1968 film ''Film/{{Romeo and Juliet|1968}}'', or the 1996 modernized version with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio and Creator/ClaireDanes, ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''.
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* BookEnds: The film opens with a sort of stylized storybook stage, in which Prince Escalus, the ruler of Athens (not a Chorus) as in the play, appears to deliver the "Two households" prologue. Then there's a shot of a painting of Verona, which zooms in to the Verona set and the story. The film ends by doing this in reverse; there's a zoom out from Verona, then the shot of the painting as the camera continues zooming out, then the stylized storybook stage, TheEnd.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: The climactic scene in the Capulet family crypt has a lot of contrast between light and shadow, being lit by candles underground.
* CompositeCharacter: Prince Escalus of Verona is merged with the Chorus, which allows him to deliver both the opening and closing lines.
* DeathGlare: Tybalt is basically required by law to do this, and indeed Basil Rathbone does whenever he spots Montagues in the town square.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: How sweet and innocent is Juliet? The first time she comes on screen she is feeding a doe.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Only one half of Romeo's face is lit, by a single candle, as he's in the creepy apothecary's shop buying his poison.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: Juliet is first seen to revive in the end when her hands, which were clasped together under her chin, unclasp and move down.
* FlyAwayShot: The film ends with a fly away zoom out from the main square in Verona (thus book-ending the first shot of the film).
* ForDoomTheBellTolls: Heavy tolling bells set the appropriate depressing mood for Juliet's funeral.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Shakespeare filled his plays with dirty jokes but UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forbade suggestive humor or dirty words. It's rather amazing that the movie was able to get the line "for the bawdy hand of the dial ''[a sundial]'' is even now upon the prick of noon" past the censors, especially given the obvious joy with which John Barrymore hits the word "''prick''".
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The Capulets keep a couple of little people in their household, apparently just for amusement. They are seen wrestling in the party scene where Romeo meets Juliet.
* ParlorGames: Rosaline is seen playing blind man's bluff.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the play Lady Montague dies offstage. In this film she is seen at the end, wearing mourning clothes.
* SpitefulSpit: Peter, the Nurse's manservant, spits at the Capulets in the opening scene.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: One of the hookers that Mercutio likes to flirt with pulls a string out of her Compartment and lowers it down from a balcony. Mercutio ties a flask of liquor to the string and the hooker hauls it back up.
* VideoCredits: Video of all the main players at the start of the film for the opening credits.
* TheVoiceless: Rosaline is TheGhost in the play but here she actually appears onscreen. She is playing blind man's bluff at the Capulet party, and she sneers at Romeo and turns away after he finds her.
* WidowsWeeds: Both Lady Montague and Lady Capulet are wearing mourning clothes with veils in the final scene.
