kindkit | Romeo and Juliet and Hats

Welcome to another installment of "Christopher Neame wears interesting hats." This time, he's in Romeo and Juliet (and is very good in it--this and Colditz are the best acting I've seen from him). R&J is among my least favorite Shakespeare plays, so I confess to mostly only watching the scenes he was in and screencapping them for your delectation.

Romeo has a hat. And a doublet.

And a bulging codpiece. And a pretty boy kneeling at his feet.

And friends. Special manly friends.

Very special and very manly. Seriously, I kept waiting for a threesome to break out. Maybe it's in the deleted scenes?

Oh, no, one of Romeo's friends has been stabbed by that asshat Tybalt!

Angry Romeo is angry! And hatless.

Sad Romeo is sad. As always, Christopher Neame suffers prettily.

Sad Romeo has got to go die in this tomb now. Goodbye, pretty boy!

Yes, pretty boy, he did just kiss you.

Go and kiss him back! Drag him out of the damn tomb and give him something to live for! Ooops, never mind, too late now. Dumbass.

(Why yes, that was the plot of the version I watched. Juliet who?)

(I don't find the ~~adolescent crush~~ love of Romeo and Juliet interesting to start with, and this version's Juliet was . . . not great. Although she did convincingly seem to be not quite fourteen, and given that I know Christopher Neame was about 29 when this was made, this contributed a creepiness factor I could've done without. In any case, waaaaaaaaaay more affection and UST between Benvolio and Mercutio and Romeo than between Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare's heterosexual love stories = mostly pastede on yay.)