Such a disappointment. It was as if Playboy Magazine decided to film a musical for 'sophisticated, worldly gentlemen'. The women were all objectified, the glitz and slickness overpowered everything...and the emotion? Gone. Why they jettisoned so much about young Guido, including his role in BE ITALIAN, is mystifying. The BE ITALIAN number, as eye popping as it looked in the trailer, is emblematic of what went wrong-- all sex and spectacle, no heart. I was crushed. I really, really hope that someone gets to make the movie that should have been made of NINE.
And I was doubly disappointed because that cast was pretty remarkable, even if there were few trained singers in the mix. |
