| Agreed on preserving the Platt performance, or a version of it. In response to the OP's question, in that alternate universe, I don't think it would matter if the film came out without a previous stage version. The issue with the film is that it doesn't work as a film at all, no matter what you've previously seen of the piece -- it feels caught in some weird world where every moment announces, "This was never intended to exist in the realistic world of cinema (as opposed to the metaphoric world of theater?." |
