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⌈ Secret Post #2241 ⌋

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Comments

[al28894]

To be honest, I was sxpecting some "Phantom-of-the-opera" style movie with songs and dialogue mixed in, but nope! All the actors did was just sing and sing and sing... maybe that's why I felt a little bit unsatisfied when I left the theater.

[(Anonymous)]

There were actually a few speaking lines added for the movie, and those were the ones that felt weird and out of place to me. In most versions of it there are none at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I even felt like there was too much singing in Phantom. There were many instances where I expected them to stop and talk, and they kept sing-talking. I far prefer musicals like Chicago where they movie-act, randomly burst into song, then go back to acting. Constant singing is just too much imho.

[ginainthekingsroad]

It's a bit of theatricality/"heightened reality" that people usually don't question live in a theatre, but our movie-watching culture norms are so different that it doesn't translate that well.

And not just sung-through musicals-- I think the score of Ragtime is amazing (I consider it the best musical of the 1990s), and the subject matter and large interconnected cast would work well on screen... but there's barely any fourth wall. Characters talk to the audience all the time, speak in the third person, remove themselves from their characters to comment on the action. I'm describing it like it's some Brechtian nightmare concept-piece, but while yeah there's some elements of that, it's not the overwhelming audience experience because the characters aren't completely abstracted, just stylized. To make a movie of it, it would need a completely different book because Terrance McNally's highly theatrical adaptation wouldn't translate to film.

[(Anonymous)]

A+ icon.

[tenlittlebullets]

*sees your icon, promptly chokes on tea*

[(Anonymous)]

I hated that they had the actors in the Phantom movie speak some of the lines--because in the stage show, lots of the stuff they had them speak was sung, and the spoken interludes in the movie broke up the songs and sounded like crap. Okay, so most of the lead actors' singing voices sounded like crap, too, except poor Patrick Wilson, whose voice was overshadowed by a truly unfortunate wig, and Margaret Preece (I'm spelling her name wrong, I'm sure) who dubbed Minnie Driver. And Les Miserables is pretty famously sung-through (that is, there's no dialogue.)