IT COULD HAVE SAVED THE FILM!!! (Rent Alternate Ending) — Page 3

My feeling is... no matter what the ending was going to be, no matter who was cast, no matter what they did, we weren't going to be happy with this movie. This show is so poignant, moving and haunting that only live theatre could handle it. A movie version, though it satisfied the basic feelings, would never have been able to encompass the emotion that live actors bring it.

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^ Me too.

It is also about timing...right place and right time.
I think they took way too long to make it, but I've said that a zillion times before.

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WTF is your av, Em?

And, like Capn said - it's called an ADAPTATION.

It could be just as good - if not better.

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I mean they started making it too late.
It had a big impact a decade ago, it should've been made around the time.
And even if it is still doing well, and some of its themes are still relevant, its generation has changed much since, and now it seems to be more "memory lane" than "punch". My opinion, of course.

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What, BSo? It's Adam.

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I know, Em.

Sadly.

But...whoa!

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I don't exactly think he meant it literally. Like, I don't think he did it to be like "okay, everybody, this is a musical. Just wanted to make sure you knew!!" but to ease you into having a story told through song.

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That's the way I took it. Sorry if I didn't express it that way in my post. But still, I feel %99 percent of the people seeing it knew it was a musical. Even if they hadn't seen the show or heard the music.

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Still didn't work. His setting was to realist to justify spontaneous singing.

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I actually think a lot of the trouble rests with modern audiences and not modern movie musicals. There is only so realistic that a musical can be after all, and that's why I'm really glad that Spike Lee didn't direct. I love Spike but I don't think he was the person for this film. I think it would have ended up TOO gritty and from what I've heard he wanted to cut a lot of songs that he didn't feel were "important", etc.

I think modern audiences have become really jaded. And I don't know if there's a way to fix that.

In regards to the fact that "Rent" was made too late...I don't know. It certainly captured New York in the early 90's for me in several places, so maybe that was "going down memory lane". But do people really think our generation has changed so much? The themes of the show really resonate with me to this day. More so even, now that I'm not a teenage Renthead (nothing but love to those who are)

A bunch of people told me that the whole threat of HIV/AIDS seemed really outdated to them. Those people scare me.

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Ha, Harpo!

I've seen the show a few times. But not the movie.

And I won't be seeing it this weekend!

Hmmm....
YES!

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