Juliet's suicide was kind of nasty

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DirectorzCut — 13 years ago(October 25, 2012 05:10 AM)

It was sad that they didn't die as in Shakespeare's play where both of them took the poison. That Juliet shot herself in the head felt a little strange and crude.

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SarahKei12 — 13 years ago(November 16, 2012 09:57 PM)

As far as I remember, Juliet stabbed herself and the death in the movie was accurate according to its own standards, since the guns in the movies represents swords/ daggers. It's all accurate.
Romeo drank the poison. Juliet awoke from her death-like slumber to find him dead, and she uses his sword (or in the case of the movie, his gun) to kill herself as well. The only thing off is the placement. In the play she lunges the sword into her stomach.

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DirectorzCut — 13 years ago(November 17, 2012 03:23 AM)

Huh, maybe I've read a censored version x)

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happyphantom9 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 08:08 AM)

I thought it was a dagger that she plunged into her heart? I need to look it up; I haven't read the play since high school.

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hodie — 13 years ago(December 20, 2012 10:05 PM)

She shot herself in the HEAD? Oh man, I should have stayed up for that.
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CastleH908 — 12 years ago(March 08, 2014 02:45 PM)

Although, I
have
always wondered why she didn't shoot herself in the heart. It would have been a lit more similar that way.

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Prismark10 — 12 years ago(March 11, 2014 09:35 AM)

It kind of looked sad to me!
Its that man again!!

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GeneralBuck — 10 years ago(March 18, 2016 11:21 PM)

What Shakespeare wrote is fairly equivalent:
Juliet. Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
[Snatches Romeo's dagger]
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
[She stabs herself and falls on Romeo's body]

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silver_snail14 — 9 years ago(April 13, 2016 08:50 AM)

Suicide isn't pretty. I'm glad they went with something stark and disturbing instead of making it flowery and romantic.
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