Romeo and Juliet Act1

In class on Wednesday, we talked about actors and their facial expressions, emotions, body language and voice. One scene in the beginning of the play that we didn't talk about stood out as being different in the movie than what I expected from the text. In Act 1 Scene 1, lines 40-51, they are at the gas station in the movie. Abram says "Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?" and Samson says "I do but not at you." They are expressing anger and resentment here. The vains in their neck are pulses, their faces are red, and their nostrils are flared in agresssion. The body language is quick and forceful, threatening. The voices are loud and exaggerated. This sets the scene for the seriousness of the feud.