Romeo and Zhu Yingtai.

“ROMEO AND JULIET”, the universally famous love story, has widely spread around the world, perceiving tons of tears from 5-year-old boys to 95-year-old grandmothers. As the most authorize representation of love, Mr. “ ROMEO AND JULIET” never hesitates to change his outfit when appearing to the public. Unfortunately, Mr. R&J in fact has a powerful competitor in China, whose characters have finally become two butterflies when their parents refused them to get married, regarded as the Chinese Mr. R&J. For me, my very first impression of Mr. R&J is from that story “BUTTERFLY LOVERS”, which is originally named from the two lovers: Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai 

When I started to get older, being able to read and understand English, I was luckily enough to reveal the mysterious veil of Mr. R&J. He was wearing a costume of movie screen, standing in the coast of Los Angeles in 1996 when he first showed up in front of me. Definitely a romantic story, no one has ever exaggerated his powerfulness. The most significant impressions for me, are Romeo’s disappointed face and gentle smile. These two emotions seemed to connection every scene in series. Every emotional change of Romeo has presented a distinct long story. I was moved by the plot wholeheartedly, despite all the unrealities and affections in the movie. However, you might think it to be funny, but the most significant theories I have learnt from the movie were that, never make impulsive decisions and always keep contact with others.

Picking up an already-known story seemed to be tediously for me before I reread the play version of ROMEO AND JULIET. If the movie is a treasure, the script would be a treasure map, marking all the secrets and clues clearly, in order to lead people to the correct direction. After getting rid of handsome face of Leonardo Dicaprio, I feel my self better to understand the personalities of both main characters. 

To begin with, every hair of me would stand up when I read about the rhetoric language Romeo says. How could a teenage young man speaks like that! Like a little girl believing in fairy tails and trying to ornate every single word. He does not directly says that he is falling in love, instead, he says something that no one might understand: “I have lost myself. I am not here. This is not Romeo”(1075). If I have a boyfriend who speaks to me like that, I would definitely run away from him. However, it is not hard to find out that Romeo is innocent and faithful for love. He is silent and sentimental, easily to be trapped by love, which foreshadows his tragedy in the future. As for Juliet, she acts in Act 1 as a quiet girl who respects and obeys her mother well. When her mother is talking about her marriage, she says nothing until the end of the conversation: “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move. But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make ‘it’ fly”(1491). 

I have just walked two steps on the treasure map, and I believe that the adventure would be more fascinating when I get deeper of the story. No matter how many versions of movies have you watched for ROMEO AND JULIET, I sincerely recommend you to read the script, which is the origin of the masterpiece. All in all, the origin is the authority; the origin is the pure; the origin is the best.