I don't want to be the one accused of ruining the Smurfs.

Kelly Asbury

Categorized in : Ruining Want Accused

A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.

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Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

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What, if not Shakespeare, is open for interpretation?

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I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

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I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.

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