| re: I hate the movie |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 07:14 pm EDT 06/24/18 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:08 pm EDT 06/24/18 |
| In reply to: I hate the movie - showtunetrivia 06:19 pm EDT 06/24/18 |
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And it should have translated well.
I disagree about that. Actually, that was my fear from the start - that it wouldn't translate well.
Assuming that you've seen 8 1/2, you know how so very different it is from the musical. And it clearly took a lot of vision for the creators of the musical to make use of the same basic material in a form that would work onstage and musicalized. The musical, IMO, is really very much its own creation - and works onstage on its own terms in the same kind of way that the Fellini film works as a Fellini film. I always feared that trying to go full circle-ish and turn the musical into a film would be very difficult. And we can see that it was even harder than that. To me the musical film doesn't play well in either genre - it's not a good film (as a film), and it's not a good translation of the musical itself either.
I think that a literal film of the musical onstage, captured in performance, would have worked as well as any other such filmed live musical, and would have been a good compromise. Trying to deconstruct it to make it "filmic" again didn't work. |
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