Early on, lovesick Romeo attends a party to gaze upon the fair Rosaline-instead, he sees her cousin Juliet Capulet, and the rest is tragic-romance history. In the original play, Rosaline is a young woman with whom Romeo Montague is infatuated and who apparently doesn’t share his feelings. At least, that what the end credits say viewers may be hard-pressed to recognize much of the book onscreen. It, too, is based on a book: Rebecca Serle’s 2012 YA novel, When You Were Mine. The new movie Rosaline, premiering Oct.14 on Hulu, takes a similar tack with its main character-a minor, offstage player in Romeo and Juliet whose story is presented as a rom-com. In this version, she doesn’t go mad and drown she secretly marries Hamlet and even bears Hamlet’s child some months after his tragic death. The 2019 film Ophelia, based on the YA novel by Lisa Klein, retells the story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet from Ophelia’s perspective.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |