DEAR EVAN HANSEN Movie Musical - News & Discussion Thread — Page 10

Everyone seems to have concluded that the hair is a wig, yet he told Vanity Fair that he grew his hair out for the film. Quote from the article: “But physically it was very much the same experience. I’d lost about 15 pounds and did a very specific diet, grew my hair out, and was shaving to make sure that I didn’t look like I had five o’clock shadow all the time, you know. I was just stripping myself into being a teenager for the last time. For what is hopefully the last time.”

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2021/05/dear-evan-hansen-trailer-ben-platt

ColorTheHours048 said: "If Ben Platt was hosting SNL and they filmed this trailer as a digital short, I would buy it as comedy. Sadly, this is real life, and they’re actually going to out this in theaters.

When people talk about how this show made them sob, I truly feel like I’m being gaslit. But the trailer looks like it’s leaning into its Hallmark ambitions even more than the stage version, and Ben is one notch short of going full I Am Sam, so I’m sure it’ll wring even more tears out of the masses in film form."



Yes, because how YOU react to a show is the exact same reaction everyone else will have to a show. Did the show make me emotional? Yes. Did the trailer for the movie do the same? Yes. And that's OKAY. Because we are different people with different emotional reactions to things. So you have no right to say it's "being gaslit". That's absurd.

dramamama611 said: "Some of you are simply miserable people. It's fine that you don't like Platt, the show, the trailer..but the lengths at which you go to show how you are so much better than others is, frankly, quite sad. No matter what they showed you, you would have castrated."

Dramamama611, I COMPLETELY agree with you. What I've seen on social media-the lengths people go to rake the trailer over the coals is absolutely ridiculous and they just need to stop. I know that's silly to say, because people will always have cruel things to say no matter what, but my GOD-do we remember how big of a hit this show was when it first came out? How much people were praising Ben Platt, clamoring to get tickets, and now he's a Tony Award winning actor reprising a role many did not get to see him do on stage and all they can do is make fun of him?? Of the film? People have got to get new material. I completely agree with you.

Arrghhhh...I don't check the message board for 1 day and it's the day the trailer is released!!!!!!

And I'm not on social media so had no idea it had dropped.

So I'm really conflicted. I really, really, REALLY wish they had just filmed the stage version like they did for Hamilton. To me the stage version is absolute perfection.

I've been worried about how the intimacy of the live show will translate to the big screen. And how the addition of characters and songs etc will work. So I've been anxiously awaiting the trailer. I just watched it and I'm still conflicted.

Some of it gave me chills, but some not so much.

I agree with all the initial negative impressions of Ben's hair, his makeup, his entire look and that he is just too old for this. I was really taken aback first seeing him. As some have remarked, he didn't look real.

Also, I was not particularly impressed with any of the brief glimpses of any of the adults, or the scene in the principal's office.

And I think they gave away WAY too much information - like Connor's suicide. That is the first huge reveal in the show, and now it's out there in the trailer. So it totally takes away that first OMG moment. As some have said, they managed to tell basically the entire story in the trailer. To me a trailer should be a tease, not a reveal.

Will obviously have to wait to see the finished product, but obviously hoping it doesn't disappoint and turns out to be a pure masterpiece :)

CT2NYC said: "I don't think it's a wig. This is from when he guest hosted Jimmy Kimmel last August, and I believe theystarted filming in September:"

Updated On: 5/19/21 at 11:58 AM

"And I think they gave away WAY too much information - like Connor's suicide. That is the first huge reveal in the show, and now it's out there in the trailer. So it totally takes away that first OMG moment. As some have said, they managed to tell basically the entire story in the trailer. To me a trailer should be a tease, not a reveal.)"

Any time anyone describes what the show is about, the brief description is usually something along the lines of "a teen lies about being close to a teen at his school who commits suicide". I knew absolutely nothing about the show other than that when I saw it, yet I knew that Connor's suicide was coming. If they left that out, there would be absolutely nothing left to put in the trailer.

CT2NYC said: "Babe_Williams said: "CT2NYC said: "Why are people on here and other social media still talking about this movie like there were other options besides Ben? He's the reason this productionexists, and it was always going to be a star vehicle for him. If, for some reason, they had waited a few years before making it, and Ben really couldn't do it, Andrew Barth Feldman and Jordan Fisher probably wouldn't even be considered for the role anyway, so bringing up their names now is especially pointless. It just feels like the same discussion over and over again."

In the cinema world, Ben Platt is certainly NOT that big of a name that this movie would have languished without him, come on now."

It was a Tony Award-winning role, in a new musical, that Ben Platt originated, and that people have been talking about for 6 years.Whywouldn't everyone involved want him to recreate the role on film? I can't imagine of anythinglessconfusing or controversial than that."

Because he looks way too old to be playing a teenager.

He was great in the OBC. He deserved the Tony for his performance, but that was six years ago.

Idina Menzel won the Tony for Elphaba. That movie adaptation is also being eagerly awaited by fans of that musical. She won't be playing Elphaba in the movie because she has aged out of the role.

Updated On: 5/19/21 at 12:07 PM

It should be said that expecting a movie to be bad and wanting it to be bad are two very different things. I don't want the DEH movie to be bad. I don't want any movie to be bad. But when the trailer doesn't look great, and there's a casting choice that's so bad it fundamentally breaks the central conceit of the story, I have to adjust my expectations.

Because he looks way too old to be playing a teenager.

So did the entire cast of Grease but nobody cared. This isn't a Marvel movie, so it's not expected to make billions at the box office but I think it will be more popular than you think, and Ben Platt is a massive draw if selling out Radio City Music Hall is any indication. People relate to this story, obviously, considering how well it has done on Broadway.

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I think folks are vastly overrating Platt's "star power""

. I’d lost about 15 pounds and did a very specific diet, grew my hair out, and was shaving to make sure that I didn’t look like I had five o’clock shadow all the time, you know.

I wonder if losing weight also was a bad idea, since that often can make look people older. AV Club is also making fun of the trailer and comparing it to PEN15 (which, I gotta say, made me laugh).

Exactly. I hope it's a big ass hit and the people bitching about it here and on Twitter? Have the BEST time shouting into the abyss of nothing!

It's not an argument. They are both movie musicals. To suggest that no one was/is going to be distracted by their ages is ridiculous. We went with it in Grease and Im pretty sure that people will go with it who see this film.