It could always be worse
Oct. 14th, 2005 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI know that some folks, myself included, have expressed some concern over a Pulitzer-winning musical being turned into a movie directed by a hack with no credentials to lead anyone to believe he even knows what a choreographer is.
That said, it could always be worse. Imagine if they turned an even better Pulitzer-winning musical over to an overrated director whose ego was inflated by an undeserved Oscar for a biopic, who then would turn the entire theme of lost souls struggling for the opportunity to dance into a crappy c-rate love story, cut the huge and brilliant multi-song middle number, turn the showstopper into something so mediocre that the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version has mroe soul, not bring a single one of the show's stars to the screen (including any of the three Tony winners, one of whom would go on to become Emily Gilmore), and bring in Michael Douglas to bulk up the major non-musical role to the point of overshadowing almost everything else.
Nah. Hollywood would never do something that horrible. Right?
That said, it could always be worse. Imagine if they turned an even better Pulitzer-winning musical over to an overrated director whose ego was inflated by an undeserved Oscar for a biopic, who then would turn the entire theme of lost souls struggling for the opportunity to dance into a crappy c-rate love story, cut the huge and brilliant multi-song middle number, turn the showstopper into something so mediocre that the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version has mroe soul, not bring a single one of the show's stars to the screen (including any of the three Tony winners, one of whom would go on to become Emily Gilmore), and bring in Michael Douglas to bulk up the major non-musical role to the point of overshadowing almost everything else.
Nah. Hollywood would never do something that horrible. Right?
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:52 pm (UTC)If you get ahold of that tape, I'd love a copy (although I kind of shudder at the potential recording quality of it).
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Date: 2005-10-15 03:41 pm (UTC)*snicker*
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Date: 2005-10-14 04:36 pm (UTC)Yes, that other movie really bit the big one, but Hollywood has been doing that for years. As a matter of fact, they screwed up two other great American musicals in the casting:
- Lucille Ball as Mame?
- Roasalind Russell as Mama Rose in Gypsy?
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Date: 2005-10-14 04:43 pm (UTC)I gotta Pipe Up!
Date: 2005-10-14 05:34 pm (UTC)Saying that... I hope there's no freaking dancing in Rent-The Movie... I think it would take away from the story. On stage dancing is fine, but the musical should be approached as something more serious... even with people belting into song out of nowhere, it should still be done with more of a movie story telling approach.
I also don't think of Columbus as a hack...yet! His upcoming films though? Yes...
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Date: 2005-10-17 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-15 03:39 pm (UTC)????
Not the "Beginning to snow" number??????????????? *weeps*
and bring in Michael Douglas to bulk up the major non-musical role to ??? Which role? I give up.
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Date: 2005-10-17 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-18 12:30 am (UTC)Thank god.
'CAuse I LOVE that song.
*Sigh*