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Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Impossible2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/31/18
#25Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Posted: 5/21/18 at 3:46pm
Mister Matt said: "I could see it working if done in the vein of Ken Russell'sThe Boyfriendor the 2012 film ofAnna Karenina, with that blend of theatricality and realism.
Joe Wright's Anna Karenina was EXACTLY what I was thinking!"
The one that flopped miserably and got mediocre reviews at best?
#26Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Posted: 5/21/18 at 5:11pm
The one that flopped miserably and got mediocre reviews at best?
I guess I didn't make myself explicitly clear. I loved Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, which is why I mentioned it. I hated The Royal Tenenbaums and Snowpiercer and The Revenant and Django Unchained, so I didn't mention those.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#27Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Posted: 5/21/18 at 5:46pmPossibly? In the way that anything is theoretically possible. The closest thing I could picture to a successful version of a Great Comet movie is Moulin Rouge... which felt like a movie that was always hyper-aware that it was a movie. I think you could lose a lot of a earnestness but you could go big for things like the club/bar scene and the opera. But then, I also think they'd have a hard time justifying the budget you would need for a Moulin Rouge level spectacle and honestly, you'd end up with something like the RENT movie or maybe Les Miserables but with hopefully better singing.
Rainah
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/16
#28Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Posted: 5/22/18 at 4:02pm
Anything's possible
but it wouldn't be easy.
It could work as a Moulin Rouge style piece. Movies do not HAVE to be realism, despite the fact that that's the way the genre is moving. Chuck realism out the window, let go of the staging (As anything written for one medium will never perfectly translate to another) but keep the intentions behind it. If the musical uses lightbulbs descending from the ceiling to be stars, that's fantastic, but don't replicate it because it'll look frickin weird on screen. How would a movie replicate the feeling and the significance of that moment, in movie language?
Impossible2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/31/18
#29Can Great Comet work as a film and who would you want in it?
Posted: 5/22/18 at 4:10pm
How would a movie replicate thefeelingand thesignificanceof that moment, in movie language?"
Yup that is the biggest problem with it, the ending and the experience it brings would be very hard to replicate on screen.
