Romeo Montague - I LOVE MY JULIET SO MUCH

What do I think of myself? That I am wise, witty, handsome and gracious? I don't know really. I must be a little like Romeo because if I weren't I don't think that Franco Zeffirelli, the director, would have cast me. ___ He explained to me that Romeo really has no purpose in life when Shakespeare's story begins, that he is aimless and a dreamer, that he tends to blow everything up out of proportion. Like that business about his loving Rosaline at the beginning of the play. ___ Probably she had only looked at him three or four times, but he said they were in love. When he really falls in love with Juliet, it gives him a purpose in life for the very first time. Zeffirelli sees Juliet's family as newly rich--I think the expression is Nouveau riche--and still pretty earthy. They dress in a gaudy way and are a bit flashy as a family trying to raise itself socially, while Romeo's family is more idealistic and on a different social level. --- But Romeo doesn't give a hang for all the quarreling between the families, he's just not interested. And once he sees Juliet, things are changed forever.

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