| re: The Devil Wears Prada – Chicago preview (Spoilers and opinions) | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:39 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Devil Wears Prada – Chicago preview (Spoilers and opinions) - student_rush 10:08 am EDT 07/29/22 | |
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| The reviews are eerily so similar, the issues are in the show's DNA. A minority opinion: I didn't think it was a solid idea for musicalization, despite the opportunity for glamourous world building. The problem is: whose story is it? The film features Hathaway's arc as protagonist, but lets face it, the reason we watch (savor, quote, gif, meme) is the Streep characterization. So a story constructed to make Priestly a force of antagonism -- ostensibly a kind of villain -- must wrestle with her character being infinitely more compelling than the young woman with the wind at her back. Film can balance this; a musical, not so easily. I still believe that problem is baked into the material. A brilliant score could mitigate its limitations, but apparently this iteration doesn't have one. |
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