| re: "Chatty" West Side Story | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:16 am EST 12/26/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:11 am EST 12/26/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Chatty" West Side Story - WaymanWong 10:25 pm EST 12/25/21 | |
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| I suppose I'm automatically wrong then? As long as the living relatives controlling the estate of the dead authors (who all died long before talk of another movie ever began) gave their approval for a new film (directed by one of the most impressive and powerful and beloved filmmakers in film history, with a revised screenplay by one of the most acclaimed playwrights/screenwriters alive) ... then I'm sure no fault can be found in anything done in the new film. And if the living lyricist, who is very much NOT the book or screenplay writer, went over the script with them and visited the set... well then, no one can have any opinion or insight that conflicts with it being perfect and flawless? Sondheim approves things and changes things in shows of his that he wrote the music to as well and were more recently written that I disagree with. Hell, Lapine isn't 90, is still working, and wrote Into the Woods... and I have several big issues with his own screenplay adaptation of his book. My opinion won't ever count toward anything with these things, certainly not over theirs, but I am nonetheless going to have my own. And it's one thing to say the author approved (though, again, Sondheim wrote the lyrics -- the aspect of the show he thinks worked the least, and when he was 25 with no experience in writing musicals properly, and that was 75 years ago... and the other authors, are dead and not weighing in...) But to present the idea that the estates gave permission as some indicator that whatever was done in the film should be deferred to... I mean, the people who control R&H's estate approved the offensive-on-all-levels animated film adaptation of The King & I... so let's not assume their approval means it's going to be good or that we have to all agree that it is good. For the record, I also think the new film is fantastic, and overall I loved it... but for many reasons, I also did not, and I think those reasons are valid and worth discussing regardless of what the estates approved or what Sondheim thinks and/or said. (I believe he thought very highly of this new movie, though I also know that he didn't as highly of the original movie or the stage show as most people did... so that ought to be considered.... but also, I don't think he ever spoke ill of any major production of his work being done while it was being done) |
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