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Condon's 'The Fifth Estate'

Posted by:	DC 10:40 am EST 11/18/14
In reply to:	re: I expect Bill Condon to do an ad like a movie trailer for the show - lowwriter 11:46 pm EST 11/17/14

Condon's film 'The Fifth Estate' is not a mishap. Anyone who has seen Alex Gibney's doc on the Assange Story - 'We Steal Secrets' - will recognize that 'TFE' is a fine dramatization of the same story, with a knockout performance by Benedict Cumberbatch and rather impressive work by Condon. The film did not do well at the box office - but it has been unfairly maligned. Just because a film asks you to think (God forbid), that doesn't mean it is, as some have said, incomprehensible. But, speaking of Condon, one thing I don't think I've noticed people bringing up is how different his film of 'Dreamgirls' is from the original Broadway production. The two are almost day and night - apparently just like the original Bway production of 'Side Show' and its current revival. The original stagings of both musicals were sung-through, for one thing. Then, later, they were both re-thought as more standard 'book' stories. ...What, if anything, can it mean?

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