Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Christmas Bells
Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Christmas Bells
measureinlove16
Swing Joined: 9/4/05
#0Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Christmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 12:51am
Anyone have any feeling sbout the songs that have been cut for the movie? I'm not exactly sure how to feel. I really like It's Beginning To Snow because of the harmonies and how SOndhiemian it is. I also really like Contact becase of the way Jon presented Angel's death. Though they are not essencial to the message they are still pretty important.
Updated On: 9/11/05 at 12:51 AM
#1re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:13amSOndhiemian, wow that is the first time I have ever heard some even attempt a word such as that.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#2re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:14am
I've made my peace with Contact being gone; it would be odd on film.
(PS - It's "Christmas Bells.")
#3re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:15amSondhiemian, what a cool word. Anyway, I wish they had been left in, but realistically, they had to cut some things out and it's better for those to be left out than some others.
J'ai compris tous les mots, j'ai bien compris, merci.............
#4re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:16amI've never heard Christmas Bells being called It's Beginning to Snow lol.. But I think its for the best that those songs havn't made it into the movie.
#5re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:16am
It's called Christmas Bells. It's one of my favorite scenes in the show (ADHD) so I was bummed at first, but the plot points addressed in the song are being shown in other ways, so I'm okay with it.
Contact would never work in a movie. Angel's death in the movie is much better, IMO.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#6re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:26am"Christmas Bells" is extremely theatrical and yes you could call it Sondheimian since it has the same feeling of "A Weekend In The Country", although I wish they had kept the song (I do believe there are ways to do it on film) because it's definitely one of my fav. songs in the show-- specially how it ends with Maureen's spectacular entrance-- I think that if they didn't find a way to develop this scene it's better that they didn't do it instead of doing a poor job that could harm the film."Contact" is also a great song but again, it's very theatrical, works great on stage, but for this one I really don't see any way of putting it in the movie.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
measureinlove16
Swing Joined: 9/4/05
#7re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:39amWow....................i cant belive i did that....................this would be my broadway blond moment of the day. Sondhiemaian is my favorite word, even if it's not exactly ligit.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#8re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 8:54am
The telephone messages are also cut - they are replaced with dialoge, thank God!
Sarah Silverman as Alexi Darling!
#9re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:12amThose tele. messages would be really odd in the show. Idl about cutting them though. I think they're funny. But, Contact wouldn't have worked in the show at all.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#10re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:51amI'm really going to miss Christmas Bells. It's one of my favorites. And what about Maureen's big entrance at the end? "Joanne, which way to the stage? SNOW!" Aw, I'll miss it.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#11re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:43ami love christhmas bells but i understand why it was cut. they had to cut some songs and that one can easily be turned into dialogue. as for contact, i can;t see how it would work on film.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#12re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:05am
i think on film christmas bells would have either been 6 times as long or a jumbled mess, all of that overlapping dialogue wouldn't convey well on film.
the only cit i'm slightly bummed about is we're okay...although giving tracie seasons of love makes up for it
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#13re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and It's Beginning To Snow
Posted: 9/11/05 at 12:08pm
Christmas Bells always gave me chills, I love it. Therefor I'll consider it my own little goodie from the show.
Giving me room to start obnoxious sentences such as "Well in the actual SHOW they did such and such". 
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
exedore
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/05
#14re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 12:46pmChristmas Bells is my favourite song in RENT, and I'm sad to see it gone from the film. It probably *could* be done, but it would require a damn good cinematographer to pull it off and I've never seen that out of a Chris Columbus film.
#15re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 1:46pmi'm definitely going to miss christmas bells and contact those are some of my favorite songs from the show-- but i have to agree with NightLaughs on the obnoxious comments. The new bath of annoying RENT fans who like the movie but never saw the show but think theyre the biggest fans ever can never take those songs away from me. :) haha.
Rentaholic2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
#16re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 3:58pmI have come to terms with losing Christmas Bells....I won't miss Contact or Happy New Year much ....honestly, I almost wanted them to cut 'Today for You', but I guess it is an important song for Angel, it's just one of my least favorite (especially the synthesizer noices). But I agree about missing 'We're Okay", simply for the fact that it's like, Joanne's only solo! But atleast she gets Seasons of Love...I mean, even Benny has a solo...
#17re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:31pm
I hope they didn't cut the reprise of I'll Cover You. I think it's one of the most moving songs in Rent.
I agree, Contact most likely wouldn't work in the movie, but i'm gonna miss Christmas Bells.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#18re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:37pm
They wouldn't cut the I'll Cover You Reprise. It's really important to the show.
If you go on amazon.com, don't they have a song list?
#19re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 5:39pmPlaybill also has one.
measureinlove16
Swing Joined: 9/4/05
#20re: Cut Rent Songs-Contact and Xmas Bells
Posted: 9/11/05 at 6:30pmThey didn't Cut I'll Cover You Reprise. It actually looks like it may turn out to be one of the bigest scenes in the movie. If I had a choise as to cut Christmas Bells or Today 4 u, id prolly rather cut Christmas bells.
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