A Partial Ode to Romleo
Tresses of golden light so quickly to shine down/
Cheeks of an angel's under locks like a crown/
Shall I compare thee to a doll, a Precious Moment?/
Each minute you're with me is such sweet atonement.
With that, I'm going to discuss Romeo's (Leo Caps) acting in his scenes with Thybalt (Johnny Legs). In these scenes, Leo Caps is able to convey many emotions: pity, anger, anguish, confusion and listlessness. His facial expressions are especially keen in his performance. He is able to show pity when he first pleads with Thybalt for peace, as he widens his eyes (puppy/prudence) to show his earnestness, then furrows his brow and speaks slowly and seriously to show Thybalt, that though he may seem like an incompetent 12 year old girl, he is ready to have a G2 peace conference. He expresses anger and anguish after Mercutio's death by shrieking unintelligibly and, as Angela pointed out (in class), channeling his role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Throughout his dialogue with Thyb, he is on the brink of crying, which conveys a certain desperation for truce; so after Mercutio dies, he languishes, his arms drawn to the side as on puppet strings, his hair in his face as on puppet strings, with two intense looking bloodstains on each side of his face; all to convey his helplessness, as Romeo, weary with guilt over the death of his friend, feels that all is for naught at this point.
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Good description of the work of Leo Caps. Now for some honesty. When I read your post, I kept thinking that Leo overacts in this film. What do you think? Is it overacting? Does the overacting go with the rest of the film, which is just a tad, shall we say, over-the-top? Paul
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