I really love how this scene was done. The whole duel here is amazing. I like the fact that though it seems more aggressive as Mercutio calls on Tybalt to fight, the whole thing after that is more playful than dangerous. They are laughing, making jokes, Mercutio is as dramatic as ever...they don't really hurt each other. The fact that Mercutio being stabbed was an accident, and how it happened is amazing. And Tybalt's reaction to it too, that he tries to get to Mercutio and stay....I find it amazing. This movie is a treasure. I love it. Thank you for the upload.
I really like that Tybalt isn’t just a regular bad guy, he sometimes has shades of grey. He doesn’t hate mercutio and he’s just teasing and making fun of him but when Mercutio makes him look like an idiot and Romeo tries to stop the fight it makes Tybalt more angry and he ended up stabbing Mercutio. The reaction on his face says everything, he wasn’t trying to hurt Mercutio it was just the humiliation and intervening of Romeo that made him stab Mercutio,and if it wasn’t for Romeo the fight could’ve been different
Look really closely; they don't actually hate eachother. They're just horsing around; Romeo is the only one taking it seriously. Really, they're SMILING in the beginning. But then, when Mercutio starts to win (with the pitchfork), Tybalt starts to lose his temper with him. Still, he's just messing around. He didn't mean to stab him; Romeo just messed him up.
That's how I interpreted this scene. It seemed things went bad when Romeo got in between until that moment it was just a bit of messing around and teasing more like a sparring session then an actual fight
Michael York and John McEnery were great in these roles...there's a lot of nuances to these performances. This dialogue is probably not easy to interpret as an actor and boy do they hit it.
Well, it's Zeffirelli's interpetation of the text, and, IMO, the idea that the duel was supposed to be in good fun but goes terribly wrong just adds to the tragedy.
It seems that Tybalt and Mercutio were having more of a play fight and were just fooling around. In fact I like the touch where Tybalt realises he stabbed Mercutio as it shows that he didnt mean to.
He accidentally stabbed him, they there not going to kill each other,they were sparing, which they only fight to see who's better. Blah Blah Balh Blah Blah
The whole fight is mostly a joke but there's tension underneath the whole thing - starting from when Tybalt insulted Mercurio with the 'consorts' comment and when he accidentally-on-purpose splashed both Mercurio and Benvolio. There's a lot of laughter but also a lot of tension through this whole scene
were watching this movie and reading the play in my english class and we all just love it. when we see romeo we scream zac efron and mercutio is the best. love the blah part. cracked us up. Tybalt is called Tibbie in my class tho, we were all sad when Tibbie died. and murcutio too.
Benvolio is Bruce Robinson, the great screenwriter of "Withnail and I" and the "Rum Diary". When he was making this, Zeffirelli is alleged to have asked him lasciviously, "are you a sponge, or a stone?" from which he took inspiration for Uncle Monty.
I like cast , costumes and sets of 2013 English film better then any previous Romeo and Juliet versions ever made, absolutely all actors there are amazing and their performances are truly brilliant. It looks like every 50 years or so this immortal story must be redone as times change and every new generation reads the story of Romeo and Juliet a little differently.
I wrote an entire college paper called “the consequences of the male ego in Shakespeares’ Romeo and Juliet.” My instructor, in 1990 was effeminate and I knew exactly how to play my audience 😊 It was actually a fun paper to write!
I'm reading Romeo and Juliet for english class and we have to compare act 3.1 in both films. I loved the scene in this film where Mercutio and Tybalt dual.
@@georgeshepherd878 Lol!! Yep I'm still on this account! It's pretty funny cuz you're not the first person in the last year to randomly resurrect an old comment I don't even remember making! It's so bizarre looking back at what an idiot I was when I was 15 haha.
Lol i remember being mercutio in freshman english even though im a girl. Hell, we even had a girl playing romeo XD. This scene was so much fun to do and it brings back memories. Wish i had done the BLAH BLAH BLAH part too XD
you should see what the actor looks like now... he hasn't aged that well neither has Juliet oh well i like mercutio in this version thanks for putting this on really helped with my essay :)
The scene is quite campy, when i read the play i imagined grown men dueling but watching this again after many years, i see quite a bit of adolescent exuberance in it. Jests are exchanged and aknowledged, the swordplay might as well have been done with sticks. Romeo stands between them, unable to read the room, and Mercutio is hurt accidentally, you can see the shock on Tybalt's face when he sees blood on his sword, and even rushes to help Mercutio, but is separated by the his cohorts. I think the screenwriters filled in the gaps, and offered us a fresh take, and perhaps a correct interpretation of the Bard's play.
At the end of Mercutio's life he suffered from being the funny friend. He bleed on the streets of Verona and everyone thought that he was being funny 😞
omg i have watched this movie like a 100 times and i love it and after all this time i didnt realize that tybalt is the same guy who plays basil in austin power lol i just realized it too lol^^
We just finished reading this in my english class last week. The classmates were chosen to play certain parts and I got to play mercutio and I was thrilled because he's my favorite character. But it was really awkward cause I'm a girl playing a guy, but then again a girl was playing Romeo too. After watching this, my acting was nothing compared to his.
Shambolic delivery underscored by the over the top background noise of secondary players so common during that era of film in general. Baz Luhrmann's version offers the taught dialogue neccessary to achieve the tension that Shakespeare had in mind.
I need this video for my homework but I don’t know which person is who. Can someone help like who is Mercutio and Benvolio x thanks and who is Tybalt 👍🏻
this was three years ago but i feel like replying for whatever reason, Tybalt is the curlyish haired one with orange clothes one, Mercutio is the blonde one and Benvolio is the one with green clothes with the hat. (this is so unclear but im way too late anyway)
It's wild to me they managed to script such a mundane start to what is a climatic moment in the story. Mercutio is irritated. Tybolt is charged. You really get the sense the heat is getting to everyone, and Romeo comes out of nowhere to defuse the tension. Rather than trying to ratchet up the drama from there the fight starts as two dudes teasing eachother, going for laughs more than anything else. What makes this great is how unavoidable it all seems. There's nothing malevolent about it. Zefirelli wad a total hack, but you'd be hard pressed to see this much ingenuity in any other Shakespeare adaptation
@sweetLatias They were just playing for fun but then Romeo got in the way so Tybalt accidently stabbed Mercutio. He looked shocked cause it wasn't his intention to kill Mercutio. Hope that cleared things up... :)
Wonder sometimes if Mercutio could see death looming over Romeo and knew he'd be next. Also wonder if Mercutio loved him in his flawless youth and beauty
@spongebobslushpants1 The character of Mercutio is funny, witty and sad. That is why he is a sympathetic character that people like. It's not all about being "handsome"
Possible, considering he's seemingly not too fond of women and has a very close bond to Romeo. (I just hope you didn't mean gay as an insult...because, you know, it isn't.)
1:20 would that be an extreme long shot (establishing shot) or just a long shot? and how about 2:55? PS: studying for an in-class assessment task. Wish me luck!
@@itsKyee1 Bruhhh you just brought me back so many memories, that was 3 years ago T_T. I don't really remember how it went, I'm a university student now. Ah, I've come a long way...
I really love how this scene was done. The whole duel here is amazing. I like the fact that though it seems more aggressive as Mercutio calls on Tybalt to fight, the whole thing after that is more playful than dangerous. They are laughing, making jokes, Mercutio is as dramatic as ever...they don't really hurt each other. The fact that Mercutio being stabbed was an accident, and how it happened is amazing. And Tybalt's reaction to it too, that he tries to get to Mercutio and stay....I find it amazing. This movie is a treasure. I love it. Thank you for the upload.
This Mercutio is my favorite of all adaptations. Lol he's just so flamboyant.
Indeed, Mercutio's blah blah... I used to giggle so much at this scene :)
Mercurio at the beginning though.
808Clutch he looks like a blobfish
He is a blobfish
Blah blah blah blah blah.
Lol when we were watching this in class I couldn't stop laughing and I was the only one who found it funny omg
Perfect....Shakespeare would love your comment!
Larry Stylinson oh I find a Larry shipper here?!?!?? What are the fucking chances
@@OsirisIxchel stfu
I dont know how no one found 0:33 BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLAAAAAAA funny
Larry Stylinson oh same!
One of my favorite scenes from Romeo & Juliet!..
It has action, excitement & a twist of sadness.What
a classic!......
0:00 Cocaine is a helluva drug
I really like that Tybalt isn’t just a regular bad guy, he sometimes has shades of grey. He doesn’t hate mercutio and he’s just teasing and making fun of him but when Mercutio makes him look like an idiot and Romeo tries to stop the fight it makes Tybalt more angry and he ended up stabbing Mercutio. The reaction on his face says everything, he wasn’t trying to hurt Mercutio it was just the humiliation and intervening of Romeo that made him stab Mercutio,and if it wasn’t for Romeo the fight could’ve been different
2:13 Tybalt: "Mercutio, I have consorts with Romeo."
Mercutio: "Consorts? What, dost thou make us minstrels?"
Look really closely; they don't actually hate eachother. They're just horsing around; Romeo is the only one taking it seriously. Really, they're SMILING in the beginning. But then, when Mercutio starts to win (with the pitchfork), Tybalt starts to lose his temper with him. Still, he's just messing around. He didn't mean to stab him; Romeo just messed him up.
That's how I interpreted this scene. It seemed things went bad when Romeo got in between until that moment it was just a bit of messing around and teasing more like a sparring session then an actual fight
Michael York and John McEnery were great in these roles...there's a lot of nuances to these performances. This dialogue is probably not easy to interpret as an actor and boy do they hit it.
Well, it's Zeffirelli's interpetation of the text, and, IMO, the idea that the duel was supposed to be in good fun but goes terribly wrong just adds to the tragedy.
Oh man, I still remember watching this version in middle school.
I was the weirdo who thought Benvolio was cute😂
He is cute tho
Am I weird for thinking Romeo and Tybalt are kind of cute. 😅😅😅
Tybalt and Benvolio are so hot
Tybalt and Benvolio are cute ☺️
It seems that Tybalt and Mercutio were having more of a play fight and were just fooling around. In fact I like the touch where Tybalt realises he stabbed Mercutio as it shows that he didnt mean to.
frfr that was so silly of him
Romeo is the reason for everyone's deaths including his own.
The montage-capulet feud ultimately is the decider in their deaths
+clue104 Tbh it's Rosaline's fault
caldwell gluesing How so
Actually it is Tybalts fault plus romeo didn't want to go to the party mercutio and benvolio did
And no its not rosilines fault that she wanted to remain chaste till marriage you sexist and inconsiderate pig.
"By My Heel, *I* Care Not!"
[Casually steps foot into a public fountain]
Ain't that a mood.
I love this scene so much. i HAVE TO act this out in my school. This is so fun i love this!!! When I gwow up I wanna be an actor.
"A plague on both your houses!"
They had real plagues back then… not this sissy Covid stuff. Diseases a man would be proud to die of…
He accidentally stabbed him, they there not going to kill each other,they were sparing, which they only fight to see who's better. Blah Blah Balh Blah Blah
The whole fight is mostly a joke but there's tension underneath the whole thing - starting from when Tybalt insulted Mercurio with the 'consorts' comment and when he accidentally-on-purpose splashed both Mercurio and Benvolio. There's a lot of laughter but also a lot of tension through this whole scene
What a stroke a genius to make the heat a point of emphasis. From the first shot you feel it bearing down on them. Inescapable
when I was watching this at school I was laughing so hard everyone was looking at me
"Here's my fiddlestick, here's that shall make you dance" LOL that line always makes me laugh :D
i never thought scene from a love story would be so funny.
LOL
Mercutio at the beginning lol
were watching this movie and reading the play in my english class and we all just love it. when we see romeo we scream zac efron and mercutio is the best. love the blah part. cracked us up. Tybalt is called Tibbie in my class tho, we were all sad when Tibbie died. and murcutio too.
I LOVE THE WAY HE SAYS BLAH BLAH BLAH
Wicked striped tights, Tybalt...always did believe that clowns were secret murderers.
Benvolio is Bruce Robinson, the great screenwriter of "Withnail and I" and the "Rum Diary". When he was making this, Zeffirelli is alleged to have asked him lasciviously, "are you a sponge, or a stone?" from which he took inspiration for Uncle Monty.
I like cast , costumes and sets of 2013 English film better then any previous Romeo and Juliet versions ever made, absolutely all actors there are amazing and their performances are truly brilliant. It looks like every 50 years or so this immortal story must be redone as times change and every new generation reads the story of Romeo and Juliet a little differently.
I thought that production fairly mediocre. The sets and costumes were ok - but not as realistic for medieval Verona as this film.
I wrote an entire college paper called “the consequences of the male ego in Shakespeares’ Romeo and Juliet.”
My instructor, in 1990 was effeminate and I knew exactly how to play my audience 😊
It was actually a fun paper to write!
Sounds like your instructor wouldn't mind wearing the tights like those worn in this scene,
You can tell that Tybalt didn't mean to kill him by the look on his face.
I art a fan of thine, Benvolio.
I'm reading Romeo and Juliet for english class and we have to compare act 3.1 in both films. I loved the scene in this film where Mercutio and Tybalt dual.
'peace, peace mercutio peace!' think he needs to calm down a bit xD
anyone been sent to watch this video or is it just me ;)
I sooo cried when Mercutio was dying. :(
Dunno if you still have this account but thought it would be funny if you got a message 10 years later
@@georgeshepherd878 Lol!! Yep I'm still on this account! It's pretty funny cuz you're not the first person in the last year to randomly resurrect an old comment I don't even remember making! It's so bizarre looking back at what an idiot I was when I was 15 haha.
Guys let’s report this video for threatening someone just so my teacher has to find a new one
❤ ❤ ❤
Romeo & Mercutio
❤ ❤ ❤
best bromance
😢 "Why/the Devil/came you/between Us"
Rest in Peace,
Mercutio
😢 😢 😢
Lol i remember being mercutio in freshman english even though im a girl. Hell, we even had a girl playing romeo XD. This scene was so much fun to do and it brings back memories. Wish i had done the BLAH BLAH BLAH part too XD
animieluver10 I literally had the same experience
Benvolio, just STAHP, why do you have to be so cute?
hold up there cheif, how high was Mercutio during the fight?
Mercutio always seemed a little mad to me tbh. Like he can't control himself. Damn even Romeo tried to stop him
here only cuz of english
"here's my fiddlestick"
Tybalt sounds like Christopher Plummer when he gets angry in The Sound of Music
the look of terror on Tybalt's face says aww shit shit SHIT!!!!
you should see what the actor looks like now... he hasn't aged that well
neither has Juliet
oh well i like mercutio in this version thanks for putting this on really helped with my essay :)
Haha!
That's what everyone in my English class said!
'OMG.Zac Efron?!'.
i wonder how Jenny J from 2009 is doing at this current moment. wonder if she graduated high school and is living a good life.
@@junkwon4839 we can only speculate
drive by shooting circa 1500
"a film on the youth" Zeffirelli said ... and Mercuzio interprets most clever youngs
F in chat for Mercutio
Benvolio and Mercutio are adorable. :3
who else is here for english class??
Take a shot everytime they say "Mercutio!"
Did they all really wear spandex back then?
+Jem Stone Tights were fashionable for men and so were high heeled shoes, until women started wearing them :)
Yeah duh
BLAH BLAH BLAH!
thanks, this helped a lot with my GCSE.
they're crazy!!the fight scene was hilarious!!
Benvolio is so cute ;3
we’re all here for some sort of assignment research
XD I bet if Tybalt was the one going BAHLBLAAUHHHHHBAHHHHHBLABLABUHHHH he would be everyones favourite
tybalt sounds like Snape.
Coincidentally, Alan Rickman DID play Tybalt in a later adaptation.
I thought i was the only one who thought that help-
Who’s here for school
You go to Sylvan Hills?
The scene is quite campy, when i read the play i imagined grown men dueling but watching this again after many years, i see quite a bit of adolescent exuberance in it. Jests are exchanged and aknowledged, the swordplay might as well have been done with sticks. Romeo stands between them, unable to read the room, and Mercutio is hurt accidentally, you can see the shock on Tybalt's face when he sees blood on his sword, and even rushes to help Mercutio, but is separated by the his cohorts. I think the screenwriters filled in the gaps, and offered us a fresh take, and perhaps a correct interpretation of the Bard's play.
At the end of Mercutio's life he suffered from being the funny friend. He bleed on the streets of Verona and everyone thought that he was being funny 😞
Teacher assigned me this on google classroom.
iicantshooot Same, isn’t it nice to be forced to watch stuff?
InfiniteGalaxy what were you asked ?
only watching this because I have a English test on this scene
Wait same-
Tybalt - a very young Michael York
omg i have watched this movie like a 100 times and i love it and after all this time i didnt realize that tybalt is the same guy who plays basil in austin power lol i just realized it too lol^^
That's just sad tbh
We just finished reading this in my english class last week. The classmates were chosen to play certain parts and I got to play mercutio and I was thrilled because he's my favorite character. But it was really awkward cause I'm a girl playing a guy, but then again a girl was playing Romeo too. After watching this, my acting was nothing compared to his.
Time flies.
4:35
I thought he was flipping him off. In the middle of class I was like, "OMG THAT'S WHERE IT CAME FROM!"
I thought he was doing that too at first. 😂😂😂
best Mercutio performance EVER
isn't Tybalt's actor from logan's run? (Great movie 12/10 would recommend)
Benvolio is the only reason I enjoy watching Romeo and Juliet in class. He is the hottest guy in this movie.
Shambolic delivery underscored by the over the top background noise of secondary players so common during that era of film in general. Baz Luhrmann's version offers the taught dialogue neccessary to achieve the tension that Shakespeare had in mind.
Baz Luhrmann's is junk. The actors have no idea what they're saying and the direction is insufferable.
I need this video for my homework but I don’t know which person is who. Can someone help like who is Mercutio and Benvolio x thanks and who is Tybalt 👍🏻
this was three years ago but i feel like replying for whatever reason, Tybalt is the curlyish haired one with orange clothes one, Mercutio is the blonde one and Benvolio is the one with green clothes with the hat. (this is so unclear but im way too late anyway)
It's wild to me they managed to script such a mundane start to what is a climatic moment in the story. Mercutio is irritated. Tybolt is charged. You really get the sense the heat is getting to everyone, and Romeo comes out of nowhere to defuse the tension. Rather than trying to ratchet up the drama from there the fight starts as two dudes teasing eachother, going for laughs more than anything else. What makes this great is how unavoidable it all seems. There's nothing malevolent about it. Zefirelli wad a total hack, but you'd be hard pressed to see this much ingenuity in any other Shakespeare adaptation
My favorite speech is cut down :(
@sweetLatias They were just playing for fun but then Romeo got in the way so Tybalt accidently stabbed Mercutio. He looked shocked cause it wasn't his intention to kill Mercutio. Hope that cleared things up... :)
tomorrow i will be a grave man
+Yhowbyjytub310 Nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough...
Where is my page? Go villain, and fetch me a surgeon. Fetch me a surgeon!
Tis only a flesh wound
Wonder sometimes if Mercutio could see death looming over Romeo and knew he'd be next.
Also wonder if Mercutio loved him in his flawless youth and beauty
'The Capulets abroad' 'Ahahahaaaa BLEEEEH.' LOL :)) Gotta love this scene
dang bro mercutio shoulda won that. why romeo gotta step in tho
9th grade english- Just me okay
Nope me too
@@burntflyguy2501 me too
1. Their pants are TIGHT.
2.I would've knocked Mercutio out, immediately he stepped out the fountain.
Tybalt whistles the Archers theme tune!!
@spongebobslushpants1 The character of Mercutio is funny, witty and sad. That is why he is a sympathetic character that people like. It's not all about being "handsome"
English GCSE class anyone else?
i will play this , i will play mercutio !! wow i'm studying english literature and we work on it !!
Part of the reason I came here.
Possible, considering he's seemingly not too fond of women and has a very close bond to Romeo. (I just hope you didn't mean gay as an insult...because, you know, it isn't.)
anything other than maths>english classes
Romeo looks like freakin' zac efron
Zac Efron looks like Leonard Whiting.
@@tinacampbell1302 Indeed.... truly don't understand why others say it the other way around, truly makes no sense at all.
1:20 would that be an extreme long shot (establishing shot) or just a long shot? and how about 2:55?
PS: studying for an in-class assessment task. Wish me luck!
how'd it go?
@@itsKyee1 Bruhhh you just brought me back so many memories, that was 3 years ago T_T. I don't really remember how it went, I'm a university student now. Ah, I've come a long way...
Dannng! I was watching this in my class and i thought DANNNNG! These men are hot in this movie!
To me, I love Benvolio! I liked him that most !! :DD
they have all hot guys in this movie i love it :D
We were learning this in my class
ha ha love the begining of this :D
who else is watching this because of english class
me
i really like this version of this scene