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Didn't Mark just get the information about the eviction? I thought he just found out and was on his way home to tell Roger.

The Benny/Mimi timeframe thing is confusing me. It might just be one of those things in Rent that if you think about, it doesn't make any sense. There are quite a few of those.

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The first half of it was passable, but the second Mimi left the apartment...it was ridiculous. It lost its intensity. Roger should have been up in her face screaming at her. And when she's out in the street? Why would he go out on the fire escape to hear her? He doesn't WANT to hear her, that's why he's exploding at her. The worst was when Angel, Collins, and Mark came around the corner and stood there and sang with her like some sort of sympathy. I laughed out loud.

"Didn't Mark just get the information about the eviction? I thought he just found out and was on his way home to tell Roger."

Nope, he finds out when he walks up to the building and rips the note off. In other words...after he had already started singing the song.

But the song starts before he's on his bike, and he doesn't even seem to be looking around. I was just very unsure of why he rapidly hopped on his bike and started singing to begin with.

Maybe he saw one before the ones the camera shows? I thought he got on his bike so fast to go home and tell Roger. But maybe that's because that's just what I expect him to do.

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Yeah, now that we are talking about it, it makes much more sense that he would know before he starts singing. The way they filmed it was pretty ambiguous.

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"That moment on stage when the Life Supporters turn and start singing to Roger always gets me, and I liked how it was handled on film."

You mean that it "gets you" as in...you don't like that moment? Or you do? Because I felt that they definitely should have incorporated the life support meeting into the number in the film. It could have been chilling...I can barely watch that number onstage without crying. I was left cold in the film, and the way they "staged" it is largely to blame.

Updated On: 11/27/05 at 01:41 PM

Of course.

People definitey got the thing about the Akita at the Life Cafe -- they laughed a LOT.

I love Out Tonight. I think it just looks good. Call it naivete, but I love it. I think showing Mimi in her "work" environment creates an important contrast that's a big part of her character -- *especially* as Rosario plays her. Rosario plays a very flirtacious Mimi, and you can tell how young she is; she feels caught between still being a girl and growing up too fast. Showing her in the club, plus the portrayal that Rosario gives her makes it look like working in the club isn't explicitly who she is, but it's just her job. She needs a job, and this is it, but there's more to her than just being a tramp. I think because they show her in and out of that environment, you can see that because of her poor choices, she's been forced to grow up very quickly, but you can also see that there's still a lot of good-hearted spirit in her.

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Updated On: 11/27/05 at 02:19 PM

haha BUT i loooooveeed wilson's dancing!!!!!!

they did need to allude more about angel killing benny's dog however.

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The first time I saw it was the international critics' press screening. They cracked up. The second time was all Rentheads, so that's invalid. But I saw it in suburban NY, and people were laughing. It's obviously a variable, though.

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I saw it for the second time in DC (suburbs) with non-Rent fans and everyone laughed at the Evita part in the Life Cafe. My sister had actually missed that part when she saw the show on stage, and cracked up this time.

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