For reference for those not in the know and to give an idea how exactly this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEzskNtFnIY
I genuinely think it was a unique/interesting idea, and am glad it exists. Kinda wish we had seen other movies like it for Macbeth, Hamlet, etc.
I genuinely love it.
It works the best out of all of Baz Luhrmann‘s “frame period pieces in current iconography so people understand the context” films
I wish younger, more up to date creators were doing similar. But the mono-culture is so fractured in 2021 compared to 1996.
Baz also picked people on their way up as well.
The visuals of the movie are just so good. The costumes and sets feel like what games like Final Fantasy 15 wanted to do - a story set in a modern world, but one that isn't our World. Or like how Bright tried to be, but failed because it had to be Los Angeles and not Verona, a city that is dripping with catholic and cartel imagry, mixed with floral print shirts in a way that never happened but maybe could have.
Seriously, just go watch parts of it, it's got a whole LOOK that really fits the dialog, as if people are doing to wordplay in iambic pentameter, they are going to be dressed in Iambic Pentameter, and the whole damn world is going to be like that too.
Anyhow, none of his other films had the same hyperclear vision, as the rest tried to be in the past but talk like the present.