On my way to work today I was zoning out and thought to myself, "I wonder if the RENT movie would/could ever become an interactive show like the ROCKY HORROR movie?" I think it would be kind of a cool idea. Thoughts? And if this has totally been discussed before, sorry.
Maybe not as interactive as throwing toast at the screen or anything, but I could see people getting up and dancing to La Vie Boheme, lighters during light my candle, etc... (this would be at a dedicated "interactive show" not an everyday showing of RENT) and of course Mooing with Maureen!
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
I don't know if it has ever been discussed, but I remember it being mentioned.
Originally I didn't think that it could acheive the cult-like status that the Rocky Horror Picture Show has. But after seeing how much interest there is in the movie six months before its going to be released I think that the RENT movie could become a cult-like film, giving birth to millions of more Rentheads, and thus, someday, turn into an interactive movie.
I can see it now: an enitre audience of Rentheads wearing the plaid pants, the black and white striped scarf, the Santa Clause coat, while mooing during Over the Moon, jumping up and dancing during La Vie Boheme, and clapping their hands during Seasons of Love.
I don't necessarily want it to happen, but I could see it. It would be fun as well. But I think the show is a little too serious to become a joke like that.
"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
Everyone yells "Here, bitch!" and throws heroin in the air.
LOL. There is only one movie like ROCKY HORROR and anything that even tries to copy that experience is going to be sadly lacking. And any movie that deals with something as serious as AIDS doesn't lend itself to that kind of fun. If anything, HEDWIG would be the next film to even come close.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
The thing that I don't think a lot of people here understand is that the Rocky Horror experience evolved over time. It wasn't that someone just sat down one night and wrote out all the shout-outs throughout the film.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
The Rocky Horror experience will NEVER happen with a new film again. As Matt says that whole thing evolved over time, and in an era before VCRS and DVDs when it was common for films to play long theatrical engagements.
Well, the Rent tour did have a midnight show in DC, and the people from CB did cheer at Mark's shout-out. And many people already show up in Mark scarves, so the show might be on it's way there, but I'm not sure if the movie will have the same effect.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
Rocky Horror is a spoof and "tribute to bad sci-fi films.
Rent is a "tribute" to life.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
NO NO NO NO NO...that would be so wrong on so many levels. Like Matt_G pointed out the ROCKY HORROR phenomenon evolved over time. It wasn't something the big wigs over at 20th Century-Fox dreamed up. In all reality, "Rocky Horror" was a huge box office dud when first released and it didn't achieve it's cult following until well over a year after it's initial outing and then only in midnight showings. "Rocky Horror" is unique unto itself.
Studios nowadays are trying to "create" this kind of atmosphere for someof their older films and it's really not catching on because it's so pre-meditated. Fox did it to "The Sound of Music" about five years ago. Disney did it to "Mary Poppins" and MGM/UA tried it with "West Side Story". Only "Sound of Music" had some success but it's died down since.
