| Cabaret stage show is so different than the film, a new film could be made | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:07 pm EST 01/21/25 | |
| In reply to: re: Where does Orville Peck fit into the queer legacy of ‘Cabaret’? - PlayWiz 08:24 pm EST 01/21/25 | |
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| Fosse's CABARET is brilliant, I think one of the great movies ever made. It does not need to be, nor should it ever be, re-made. However... Masteroff and Kander & Ebb's CABARET has no really been made into a movie yet, and I thought it should be. The stage version, be it the 60s version or the 90s version, is so different from the Fosse film version, they are somehow the same musical and not at all the same musical. I am actually shocked Mendes never made a movie of his Cabaret in the 90s after he so successfully crossed over to filmmaking and won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars. I guess he didn't see it, or didn't think it ought to be a film? I imagine with his power in hollywood and the success of that revival, he could have gotten it made, especially with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, even if he waited till that production closed (in 2004) after CHICAGO was not only a big hit but won Best Picture. It's a bit wild to me to see that he chose to follow up American Beauty with... The Road to Perdition (2002), and then... Jarhead (2005). For such an astronomically successful first feature effort with such profit, praise and awards... to have 2 movies that got mixed reviews and were not big hits... I think he'd have done much better if his follow up to American Beauty was Cabaret, especially after the sensational success of Chicago by the same songwriters as Cabaret no less. Given his time as a theater director, prior to Cabaret's success and the American Beauty, and since... that he's done such... untheatrical and unmusical movies, and has still never come close to making a musical film. I would much rather have seen his film of Sweeney Todd than what we got, his film of Into the Woods than what we got, his film of Nine than what we got, his take on a new film of Gypsy... I would still love for him to direct a film of Company or Assassins, both of which he had big triumphs with at Donmar. |
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