| re: can confirm A LOT of songs are cut | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:49 pm EST 01/26/25 | |
| In reply to: re: can confirm A LOT of songs are cut - Chromolume 08:59 pm EST 01/26/25 | |
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| Yes it does... and yet... AND YET... this material handed, wrapped with a bow on a platter, the filmmakers a way in to all/most of the book songs being justified, a language to speak to the audience in. Unlike Chicago, which needed it made-up and put onto the material (seeing everything through Roxie's personal fantasy and delusion of vaudeville), KOTS the musical is conceived and built with Molina seeing everything through movie musical songs/numbers/language (musical and visual)... it's right there. It's not even a leap for the audience to show us that this is how the movie will work. We start with him escaping into an Aurora movie musical scene that gives him joy/peace/distraction, he then appears IN the number mentally placing himself there, and then... he imagines his dialogue with Valetin is a musical number, his chance to tell Valentin about himself (Dressing Them Up) as a movie musical number... he imagines the other prisoners as a dancing chorus of hunky boys to support Aurora and himself... he projects movie musical language onto his memories of his mother, onto the incredibly triggering phone call with her to make it easier to do, as Valentin tells him about Marta and his first experience with woman, Molina hears it through the filter needing it to be done (or seizing the mental opportunity to place it in a movie musical)... ya know, the way they happily had everything in Chicago seen through Roxie, only far less justified or sensical if you think about it song for song. Very few stage musicals build this kind of musical and visual world and language FOR a filmmaker to make the songs work, performance songs and book songs, work in a movie musical context. While i have confidence Bill Condon's film will be very good... and that outside of the context of the actual musical and what I think, very clearly and confidently a movie of the stage musical could and should have been, it will stand on its own. But the only reason I can understand WHY they didn't seize the opportunity provided by the musical is budget. And with Jennifer Lopez starring, I truly don't know why the budget was SUCH an issue. And I also don't know why they didn't cast international acting and/or singing stars as Molina and Valentin to get a bigger budget and ensure a bigger buzz and box office in the US and around the world. Shrug. I also, unrelated to what a film of it could have been 10, 20, or now 30 years after the stage show opened on Broadway, wish they had filmed the Broadway production with the original cast for broadcast/distribution. What a loss. I think it's really the last musical of its kind. How amazing it would be to have preserved it for anyone to see. I also am baffled that this wasn't made years ago, and that it wasn't Rob Marshall who made it, given that not only would it have been the perfect follow up to the Chicago film after it was an enormously profitable box office hit but also took the Oscar for Best Picture, he could have done anything he wanted. ... but he co-choreographed the original production!! No film director was better poised to get it made or better suited to direct a film of this musical. And J-Lo was an even bigger sellable star in the 2000s. Just baffling. |
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