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Originally Posted by Fawriel
As for Radium, you just completely didn't get it. I'm aiming for a complete reinterpretation here, like, say, that one movie that places Macbeth in the suburbs of England and makes the characters teenagers and kids. Everybody knows at least Romeo and Juliet, so I figure it will be illustrative. I'm tired of phrases like the one about big eyes, which are not even necessarily a part of mangas, it's just a convention. That I'm trying to capture the spirit of manga doesn't mean that it'll have potty humor, transvestites or funny animal comic relief and crap. I'll try to present a story the way a modern day manga artist would present it with his means.
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It still strikes me as an unnecessary modification, really. The fact that people already know Romeo and Juliet is a problem rather than an advantage; everyone knows all the major plot points, so there will be no element of surprise or suspense, no new themes, and the only reason people would read it is to see pretty pictures.
Personally, I'd suggest either going for a complete rewrite that hides the Shakespeare from people that aren't looking for it (think the Lion King) or doing a compilation of a lot of shakespeare stories into one.
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