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Romeo and Juliet took place at the Theatre in London in 1597. For 497 years, it has filled theaters and inspired filmmakers and writers. I can name two great successes based on Romeo and Juliet: West Side Story (1961, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, remade in 2021) and Love Story (1970, directed by Arthur Hiller)
Everyone knows how it ends: it didn't shake its success. Endowed with great beauty, the plot has logic and coherence as basic principles, the characters are consistent, with solid characteristics, poetry has a place of honor. So, the problem with KMLM is not the SE: it is the betrayal of logic and coherence, it is the suppression of the consistency and characteristics of the characters. I read, I watched Romeo and Juliet in the theater, in the cinema, COUNTLESS times. As for KMLM, "half" a time would have been enough to not watch it again. It attacks our intelligence and abuses the tolerance we have with a plot that began spectacularly and from the middle to the end turned into a cheap Mexican melodrama.
