Sassy gay friend romeo and juliet

Have suggestions for reactions? What will we react to next? We like our gay friends sassy and reasonable. It explores how Juliet's agency is linked to her love and how Shakespeare's text speaks to 21st-century concerns. In doing so, he reframes tragedy as comedy and integrates the heroines into a "functional" affective order.

Follow us on Twitter to stay updated. I agree with Tripthi and Gregory; a reinvention of this character or the integration of a less predictable character could lead to a rejuvenated viewership. The Sassy Gay Friend episode of the YouTube series Sassy Gay Friend adapts Juliet's suicide scene from Romeo and Juliet and challenges the notion of tragic inevitability.

The feminism and the queerness of the SGF series is pitched strategically at the level of common sense, something the viewers may already have been tuned to in their studies of the texts at high school or in their core classes at college. Baz Luhrrman's Mercutio is almost such a figure.

We can see this phenomenon at work by looking at the relative views of the various videos. And I very much agree with you, Tripthi.

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Find out when our next Live React is! The Sassy Gay Friend, employing "common sense," functions as a figure of containment, taming excessive passions and what appear to be socially harmful or unproductive desires. And Juliet Capulet certainly could've used a sassy gay friend as she was about to commit suicide.

Well then what are yo. He would've doled out blunt advice like, "I think you're fourteen and you're an idiot." Perhaps she wouldn't kill her self with such a good friend telling. Such numbers suggest that there is a finite number of classical works of literature that are widely enough known by the general public that they may be successfully adapted and spoofed.

Not only is the narrative a familiar one, but so too is the variation. I enjoy the SGF series. Log in or register to add a comment. Viewership of the series drops precipitously, however, as soon as the SGF takes on less familiar canonical works: his Great Expectations video has less thanviews, while Cyrano de Bergerac can barely gain a few hundred thousand.

I would love to see a radical queer-feminist production featuring the SGF. Excellent post, Sarah. Great post.