Be Still My Broken Heart
Nov. 27th, 2004 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losThe film version of RENT (a weird idea from the get-go) is DOOMED.
First of all: Film version of RENT? Can we say 'doesn't transition well to film?' I can't see it working. RENT is too buoyant and theatrical for the more subtle acting required by a movie. I never enjoy the music alone at home all that much- I think I enjoy it in the context of the whole experience b/c that’s the way it’s designed to be received. Musically, I’m not sure it’s that rich. I mean, Come Light My Candle? Come on. So removed from the live experience, set in the more detached, critical context of a film, how well will it play?
Secondly: I just found out who's directing... Christopher Columbus. Scream. Writhe. Then see Harry Potter and Home Alone and scream and writhe some more. Who the hell decided to do this?
OOOOOh, but the little couple on top of the wedding cake: They've decided to go with the ORRIGINAL Broadway cast members. In my day, Broadway acting didn't transition well to film, blah, but furthermore, the original cast? Meaning people a decade too old? This is going to be Kenneth B's Hamlet all over again, with angsty young forty year olds.
I tried to call Jer, not to inform, as being him he probably already knows, but to express a little shell-shocked horror, but he was out doin' stuff. Thus, I shriek my pain into the internetty void. Gah! Columbus!
Maybe I'm wrong, but the source materiel is somewhat dated, and it feels a little weird to have all the big gay AIDS ravages productions making it into the public eye ten years after they were made/needed to bring attention to the AIDS crisis. So what, now it’s safe for RENT to tour and have a movie and HBO to do Angels? Hmm.
(/ridiculous pretension)
First of all: Film version of RENT? Can we say 'doesn't transition well to film?' I can't see it working. RENT is too buoyant and theatrical for the more subtle acting required by a movie. I never enjoy the music alone at home all that much- I think I enjoy it in the context of the whole experience b/c that’s the way it’s designed to be received. Musically, I’m not sure it’s that rich. I mean, Come Light My Candle? Come on. So removed from the live experience, set in the more detached, critical context of a film, how well will it play?
Secondly: I just found out who's directing... Christopher Columbus. Scream. Writhe. Then see Harry Potter and Home Alone and scream and writhe some more. Who the hell decided to do this?
OOOOOh, but the little couple on top of the wedding cake: They've decided to go with the ORRIGINAL Broadway cast members. In my day, Broadway acting didn't transition well to film, blah, but furthermore, the original cast? Meaning people a decade too old? This is going to be Kenneth B's Hamlet all over again, with angsty young forty year olds.
I tried to call Jer, not to inform, as being him he probably already knows, but to express a little shell-shocked horror, but he was out doin' stuff. Thus, I shriek my pain into the internetty void. Gah! Columbus!
Maybe I'm wrong, but the source materiel is somewhat dated, and it feels a little weird to have all the big gay AIDS ravages productions making it into the public eye ten years after they were made/needed to bring attention to the AIDS crisis. So what, now it’s safe for RENT to tour and have a movie and HBO to do Angels? Hmm.
(/ridiculous pretension)
