[ SECRET POST #4061 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4061 ⌋

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Comments

[morieris]

I wouldn't care about the revisionist history if what they gave us wasn't so bland.

Him being a con artist who claimed a blind, deaf woman was a former slave would have been more interesting to watch. Interesting =/= good.

[gelertcrumpet]

That was what was so bonkers to me. So you made a pop musical about PT Barnum - okay, weird choice, but there's been weirder. But then you don't dig into anything about what made him noteworthy, about what made him objectively interesting as a massively flawed person, because they're too scared of making an unpalatable product and/or making Hugh Jackman sad, I guess.

Everything I've seen about it feels so removed from Barnum they could've made it about any Abstract Circus Man with fewer issues.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the movie despite it having basically jack shit to do with the historical PT Barnum, but this isn’t even the first musical about him.

[(Anonymous)]

what's the first musical? I had no idea this was about PT Barnum.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Barnum, a 1980 musical. It largely centres around his partnership with his wife, and focuses a lot more on his status as a con artist. Of course, it still de-emphasises and even lies about a lot of the shit he pulled, because duh.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I got so turned off by Greatest Showman, like... Barnum might have whitewashed a bit of history, but I found it so friggin enjoyable, and I think Jackman could have been great in the role Jim Dale played, but... the movie looks so blah.

(I hated the music from La La Land, which is the other reason I have no interest in it, I assume I will just plain not enjoy the songs if it's by the same team)

[(Anonymous)]

This is the reason I haven't gone to see it. Barnum was such a HUGE character and would make a hell of a good movie but I figured they would make it pretty instead of interesting.