re: The Fantasticks and How To Succeed in Business movies
The Fantasticks killed me... I love the musical, and I was really hoping to see a good movie of it. I thought they completely wrecked Luisa. Maybe it's because I've only ever seen it that way, but I imagine Luisa as being a dramatic and over-the-top teenager, but I thought they gave her too much of the misunderstood heroine character - I hope I'm making sense here. They cut out the whole monologue before 'Much More', which bothered me and made the song a lot flatter. I thought the movie fell ...