#51
Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:11pm
Where Richard Attenborough first went wrong was deciding the show was about kids trying to break into the business.
I believe Kelly Bishop says it best:
Bishop says she rememberes watching when a television interviewer asked Attenborough why he didn't use the original cast. "He said, 'Those people are all in their late thirties by now, maybe their forties. This show is about kids breaking into show business.' I almost ruined the television set! I jumped up and stomped around the living room. Breaking into show business? Breaking into show business! He doesn't even know what the show's about!"
That said, I do stand by the film. It's a relatively decent adaptation with several major mis-steps (no pun intended.) And like I said earlier, in early drafts they did leave in "And" and most of the montage, and part of "Music and the Mirror." However, they also were doing them in strange 80s music video mode. During Judy's section of "And" she was going to be chased around like a Pac-Man monster...so we should all be glad we got what we did.
I believe Kelly Bishop says it best:
Bishop says she rememberes watching when a television interviewer asked Attenborough why he didn't use the original cast. "He said, 'Those people are all in their late thirties by now, maybe their forties. This show is about kids breaking into show business.' I almost ruined the television set! I jumped up and stomped around the living room. Breaking into show business? Breaking into show business! He doesn't even know what the show's about!"
That said, I do stand by the film. It's a relatively decent adaptation with several major mis-steps (no pun intended.) And like I said earlier, in early drafts they did leave in "And" and most of the montage, and part of "Music and the Mirror." However, they also were doing them in strange 80s music video mode. During Judy's section of "And" she was going to be chased around like a Pac-Man monster...so we should all be glad we got what we did.
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