Dear Mrs Dorries

I read with interest your blog on the forthcoming Julian Fellowes film version of Romeo and Juliet. Your worry about a fourteen year old girl being allowed to film a "Graphic sex scene" is touching. However....there is a slight problem. She moaned and whined about wikileaks recently....however....the extract from the script that she is referring to was leaked itself. It was also an extract from a script that was stolen BEFORE a fourteen year old girl was cast in the lead role. Shakespeare did not SEE Juliet as fourteen Mrs Dorries....he wrote her as a fourteen year old. It is specifically written within the text. You moan that you want to see Shakespeare as he meant it, well, again I might point out that he probably didn't see either the advent of film, the moral compass of a nation four hundred years or so later or the ridiculous posturing of a desperate politician who wants to go on a moral crusade despite being overdrawn in the Royal Bank of Morality herself. There WERE laws regarding underage sex.....the definition of underage was different back then to now. Are you really worried that impressionable young girls will go rushing from the cinema, and immediately rip their clothes from their bodies in an effort to have sex? Do you really give such little credit to young people? If we are to believe that this behaviour can be taught, and that the media can have such a huge influence, then surely your public affair with a married man sends a terrible message out? I should ban my children from your blog henceforth....

Do you really genuinely believe that Mr Fellowes will create a morally repugnant film when you consider his history? Do you not think that the authorities in charge will not take a considered and reasoned approach to the film? Do you really think that Shakespeare should only be performed traditionally? I have always held your opinions in very low regard, but ignorant bandwagon jumping attempt has really shown you in your true colours....and by the way....the Zeffirelli version is widely derided as a weak interpretation amongst those that understand such things. By the way....Olivia Hussey was 15 at the time of filming the version you love.

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