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| re: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? | |
| Posted by: ashleylm 12:47 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
| In reply to: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? - Delvino 07:14 pm EST 12/13/17 | |
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| The movie was a aggressive often contrived mediocrity I have two responses to that--first, I liked the movie much, much more than you--and I doubt "mediocrity" describes it well--I suspect it's more likely a divisive film (where half the audience eats it up and the other half stares dumbfounded that this was ever made), which some of my favourite films have been. Second, rather than remaking perfect movies as musicals (which this forum would be quick to castigate), how much better to be inspired by something that could be taken to a whole new level--there's no danger that the musical will be CGI driven by the end. |
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| re: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:03 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? - ashleylm 12:47 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| I respect your affection for the film. My opinion -- admittedly subjective and not terribly valuable -- does line up with the Rotten Tomatoes score (52%, very low in an often grading-on-the-curve metric). The film has never been widely praised. Most cult or near-cult films aren't "Harold and Maude" come to mind -- also turned into a musical.) I believe your point about making musicals from less known films is a fresh take. In general, we'd do better to see more obscure, less iconic stories, adapted. The big ones --"Moonstruck," "Marty" -- seem to not work so well (I was interested in both of those). I've often seen movies and thought "That would be a swell musical." I thought that about "Chocolat." And when "Amelie" came along, which some people confused with "Chocolat" amazingly enough, I thought "wrong movie." I used to keep a little private list of movies that I believed might "sing." |
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| re: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:52 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Why all this excitement about "Death Becomes Her" with Chenoweth? - ashleylm 12:47 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| Your point about the CGI was the very first thing I thought of when I saw this announcement. Part of the fun of the film is the creative use of special effects, almost none of which could work in the theatre, and there were whole scenes built around the effects. I will be curious to see how the creative team develops the story into something that can stand without all that and I have a feeling that this show will be a very different animal from the movie. | |
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