Miss Saigon - MOVIE

i always saw saigon as a movie, but a serious one. take the setting for full metal jacket, or war movies of the 80's, very seedy, smokey and desolate. then add the marvelous saigon charcaters and let it fly. Evita seemed to work that way. it was done as a normal film, with music in it.

wow, i think that it's the songs that gives the story such depth and richness. but that's my opinion.

Saigon has some excellent music, no doubt about it.

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MISS SAIGON will be playing at NJPAC from 11/4-9.

I always considered Oliver Stone's "Heaven and Earth" to be the MISS SAIGON movie...minus the singing of course.

I have been a fan of Miss Saigon for years!

I do hope that the show is made into a movie, to a new fresh and younger audience who would not normally visit west end shows.

If it were would it be considered another Vietnam war movie or a musical? I believe it would work and that there is a vast potential audience out there who whould appreciate the shows songs, message and stunning visuals in the film medium.

I too see Heaven and Earth as a movie like Miss Saigon. Just imagine the emotinal resonance in the movie audience in scenes such as the evacuation of Saigon, the bar scene and Hotel Room scenes if they were sung in a real movie that someone had realised with their mind.....

Lets hope that Sir Mackintosh is already secretly making plans!

I've always thought Miss Saigon to be the most sophisticated of the London Pop imports... and the best written. Not the best staged... but the best material.


kmc

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I actually think this is one of those musicals that should not leave the stage...all those ballads would kill it as a movie, they are so sentimental and overly passionate that with the war background it could borderline on the ridiculous on screen.

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a Miss Saigon movie without the music? that would be very sad...I love the music.

I hope it is not a movie I hated the musical.

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I just find a lot of musical movies to be kinda awkward. Just imagine how the "Telephone Song" would be done on film...

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The story of MARTIN GUARRE has already been a film several times. It was not a hit on either side of the pond, and would be super expensive to make as a movie musical. I can't imagine it ever happening.

I've long felt that SAIGON would make a better film than stage show - in the right hands of course. I've always wondered what Oliver Stone would have done with EVITA, so if he were to make a film of MISS SAIGON, I'd definitely line up to see it.

I think that it could be a really good movie if they gave it to someone like Rob Marshal and the rest of the people who did Chicago, because with the right cast and the right director it could be a oscar worthy movie musical.

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