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| re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? | |
| Posted by: Greg_M 04:39 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? - ilw 11:23 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| This is the problem with many film adaptions of Broadway musicals - the reviewer hates the material on stage - so of course they will hate the film. "Man of La Mancha" was criticized by most critics - but the criticism was about the material and not so much the way it was filmed, so was "1776" and both films were released in late 1972. The other 1972 musical was "Cabaret" which hardly resembles the stage show in story and structure | |
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| re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:04 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? - Greg_M 04:39 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| What you describe sometimes (perhaps often) happens, but I think that many people who love Man of La Mancha onstage think the movie is a disaster. Probably a lot of movie critics at the time just didn't like the material, but even those who did like the show may well have not liked the movie. | |
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| re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:41 am EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? - AlanScott 06:04 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| "What you describe sometimes (perhaps often) happens, but I think that many people who love Man of La Mancha onstage think the movie is a disaster. " Alan, you took the words right out of my fingers ;-) |
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| re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? | |
| Posted by: Greg_M 06:07 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? - AlanScott 06:04 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| I always cringe when a review starts off with "This is why I hate musicals...." if that is true why is that critic reviewing it in the first place????? | |
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| re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:28 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: '1776' film reviews: Historically applauded or panned? - Greg_M 06:07 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| One perhaps surprising thing is that Pauline Kael liked the film version of Fiddler, but wrote in her review that she had never seen it onstage. Which caused Hal Prince to later write that she should have seen it onstage. She had seven years to see it. | |
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