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re: screen to stage - not good

Posted by: dlittle 08:45 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: screen to stage - not good - bearcat 07:35 pm EDT 03/17/14

This exact argument is one of the reasons that I love "Once" so much. It's been transformed from a filmic language to a theatrical one. It is very much a creature of the theater.

I'm not opposed to screen to stage adaptations if the people engaged to handle the transfer can give the property a reason to exist as a play. When I walk out of a show wishing that I had just rented the movie for $4.00 instead of dropping $80.00+, I get upset.


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Posted by: finally 11:03 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: screen to stage - not good - dlittle 08:45 pm EDT 03/17/14

Exactly how I felt leaving Beaches the Musical in your last sentence. If your show has nothing more to offer over the movie, why bother?


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Posted by: Chromolume 12:20 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: You just described... - finally 11:03 pm EDT 03/17/14

It's also, conversely, one of the resons I thought making a film of Nine was not a good idea. 8 1/2 and Nine are very different properties - obviously Nine is based on the Fellini film, but it works on its own terms as a stage piece rather than seeming like just a stage version of the that film. And from the beginning I felt that the things that made Nine work onstage would not necessarily translate back to film so easily.

And, in the end, I tend to think the musical film didn't serve either medium very well - it had to make too many changes to the musical to represent the musical property itself, but it also just didn't seem like a great film in its own right. They should have just tried to do a remake of 8 1/2 (though why anyone would want to do that would be beyond me, lol).


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