A dog of the house of Montague

The Verona project, part XX, Nyócker! (The district!)

This film is every bit the treat for eyes and ears (honest to god, next time I think I'll just turn the subtitles off) that it was when I first saw it, but the R&J aspect is more thematic than plot-related, unless there's something I'm not remembering in the play about going back in a time machine to kill and bury mastodons so that your community can reap oil profits millennia later. There is a sweet balcony scene, though--and also a very rough episode of verbal abuse of Julika by her father. Also drugs (provided by a sort of panhistoric combination of Friar Laurence and the Apothecary), but none to produce or counterfeit death.

Who (how old), when, how long? The animated Ricsi and Julika are voiced by L. L. Junior (22) and Andrea Roatis (?), 2004, 1½hrs.

What sort of R&J? Roma and Magyar, respectively, so as in other spins on the story, the conflict is between ethnic groups rather than families--or rather between families as ethnic representatives.

Seriocomic scale for first scene? There are actually a couple of equivalent scenes, one between a pair of adults, the other a sort of hip-hop dance-off between Ricsi and Julika's brother Simon; both scenes are quite comic, probably 2 to 3 on the scale, but not silly.

"Wherefore": do the filmmakers know what it means? Does not apply.

Carrion flies? NA.

Body count? Lots of fighting, no fatalities.

What (else) is missing? Da-da,

What (else) is changed? da-da,

What (else) is odd? da-da.

End-of-the-play exposition? Wonderful end-of-the-film punch line.