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| re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer | |
| Posted by: Jason 01:14 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer - dreamawakening 09:51 pm EDT 05/22/23 | |
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| Not sure if you're joking or not, but Alice Walker wrote the book, Menno Meyjes wrote the screenplay for the movie, Marsha Norman wrote the book for the Broadway musical, Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical and Marcus Gardley wrote the screenplay for the movie of the musical. That's a lot of successfully employed writers. It's a fantastic story and as a huge fan of the 1985 film, I think it's wonderful that we have all these incarnations. Take care, Jason |
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| re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer | |
| Posted by: dreamawakening 06:10 pm EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer - Jason 01:14 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
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| You are correct Jason, writers are being paid for rehashing the story to death. I would prefer the same writers would get paid for original material is all. |
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| re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer | |
| Posted by: finally 09:08 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
| In reply to: re: THE COLOR PURPLE Movie Musical Trailer - Jason 01:14 am EDT 05/23/23 | |
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| Counterpoint: too many cooks in the kitchen. I think the musical really suffers from the sense that it's put together by committee. The second act is particularly disjointed. That was less apparent in the revival but still an issue. Of course, this is an adaptation of a movie that is an adaptation of a book, so even more of a problem to overcome. This is the problem with a lot of screen to stage transfers that end up being vignettes from the movie version. Like when I saw Young Frankenstein and the couple beside me kept turning to each other to announce the upcoming joke. "Ovaltine!" |
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