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The 1968 movie in my "imaginary movie project" — "Romeo and Juliet."

I saw Franco Zeffirelli's version of the Shakespeare play when I was 17. Olivia Hussey (Juliet) was born in 1951, like me. She was 16 when the movie was made. Leonard Whiting (Romeo) was only one year older. We're told quite clearly in the text of the play that Juliet is 13. These are young kids indeed. They fall madly in love one night, get married the very next day, everything suddenly goes to hell, and on the fourth day, they're both dead.

The sense of of teenagers in love is incredibly strong and real...



Oh! How I cried when Romeo kills himself and Juliet immediately awakens from her fake death and finds him freshly dead...



So emotional! But what was it like watching it again half a century later? Beautifully fresh and alive. The story is so fast moving and the teenagers get so overheated — with lots of love and crazy streetfighting — but that's the story and I got caught up in the wildness and the extremely painful sadness in the end — in 1968 and in 2019.

Look, here are Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting talking about the movie in 2018. They are old, and I am just as old:



So lovely and sweet!
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