![]() ![]() ![]() Over the previous 25 years, Troma had developed a myopic reputation as a gross-out gore enterprise. Besides, Kaufman long a proponent of cinema as art, saw the subject as a perfect realization of all his lofty ambitions – and he was right. As a notion, turning Romeo and Juliet into a punk rock pierced body part projection of the Manhattan Independent Film Company’s aesthetic, seemed quite normal. Heck, West Side Story had done it in the ’50s, and it was and still is considered a classic. So when Troma chief Lloyd Kaufman pegged employee James Gunn to update the playwright’s classic tale of star crossed lovers, it wasn’t something wholly novel. Even as far back as their first staged productions, directors and theater companies have been meddling with the Masters’ hollowed words and characters. Filmmakers had been updating Shakespeare since the Bard’s plays first appeared. ![]()
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