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Screenplay#475
Posted: 12/11/04 at 12:03am
Hey all,
Sorry if this is taboo (ha!) to ask, but where could I find the screenplay? I'm sooo out of the loop. I know it's leaked, but... where is it? If someone could email it to me or something, I'd be ETERNALLY grateful. For a Renthead I'm very out-of-touch.
Thanks! everybodylovesrocky@yahoo.com
Alexis
Screenplay#476
Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:06am
FOF-The screenplay link is on pg 3 on believe.
Emcee-That article has been there for at least two weeks and I sent a copy of the script to the writer so he could actually see the "horrible script" he was trashing.
Screenplay#477
Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:08am
No, the "Rent Rant" has been there for a while; I posted a link to this new one on a thread a few posts down. 
Screenplay#478
Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:12amEmcee-Sorry I just logged on to Broadway.com and saw they got another one (blame my ignorance on 6 hours in a car)
Screenplay#479
Posted: 12/11/04 at 6:15pmBUMP(because I feel like it)
Screenplay#480
Posted: 12/11/04 at 6:53pmDoes anyone know if the original band members will be doing the music? Who is in the ensemble..anyone know if Byron, Aiko or Gwen are in it as well? I sure hope the band will be recreating the music! (go Kenny B.)
Screenplay#481
Posted: 12/12/04 at 12:05am
Who else cried while reading Angel's death scene? That's one change I love. (Plus, no 'Contact'!! Score.) ^-^
iheartmark, i'm offically not talking to you now. 
how can you not like contact?? we already had the whole "how should angel die" debate, so i'm not getting into it again...
Screenplay#482
Posted: 12/12/04 at 12:08am
I love the whole score, but I understand that some things just won't work/need to be in the film. Contact is one thing. I'd like Angel's portion of the song included, but its ok I guess. But yes, already discussed lol
Any ideas for discussion to bring this thread back to its former glory? lol
Screenplay#483
Posted: 12/12/04 at 3:50pmI just read the screenplay and i don't really like it. i don't know how this is going to work on film
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
Screenplay#484
Posted: 12/12/04 at 4:11pm
My favorite things in the Screenplay were:
The way the whole congregation joins in singing I'll Cover You
Hearing the chords to Seasons of Love at the very beginning with the pictures of NY and the whole Rent scene
The protest being put in an old movie theatre
The way he's doing Without You, Seasons of Love (especially the black out at the beginning of it) and the I Should Tell You in the middle of La Vie Boheme
The omission of Contact and some of the other stuff
The finale, with the film projection on all the buildings...awesome!!
Don't like:
ommission of Bells Ringing scene right before Over the Moon and the song (don't know if it actually has a name) where they all get mad at each other
Working in the whole gay marriage thing...why, why why!! It wasn't as hot of an issue then, and even if it was, they don't make it an issue--Rent is presented in a way that the gay couples are just like straight couples and no one questions it. They never dwell on the fact that they are gay couples and outcast or persecuted because of it.
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#485
Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:43pm
*BUMP*
can we discuss out tonight? i'm REALLY excited to see this, especially the way it's done in columbus's screenplay. it's really different, but intriging.
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#486
Posted: 12/30/04 at 11:45pm
YAY!
I do like the way OT is presented in the screenplay. Actually, it makes more sense than the play, to me anyway. I mean, c'mon, dancing randomly like that in hallways is strange lol
Swing Joined: 12/30/04
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#487
Posted: 12/31/04 at 12:52amI don't know if this has been discussed already, but which screenplay is it that you guys are talking about? The two seem kind of different
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#488
Posted: 12/31/04 at 6:22pm
*bump*
We're talking about both...anyone want to continue?
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#489
Posted: 12/31/04 at 7:31pmI'll join in on the conversation. A while ago i read part of one of teh scripts i think it was not the one written by columbus but the other guy. FOrgot his name sorry! I THought he did a good job of adapting the play especially with the songs. I heard that with the updated scrip there was a gay marraige bit. THat would annoy me because i think it would further jeopardize the movies chance at the box office. I am for gay marraige but many in our world aren't. I want the film to do well and could without the gay marraige bit. Just my opinion.
Understudy Joined: 12/30/04
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#490
Posted: 1/1/05 at 12:33pmI don't like the gay marriage bit because it is unneccessary and is just put in there for the sake of putting it in there and serves no real purpose other than to bring the subject up (and the subject was not brought up in the show, so why not leave well enough alone?). However, I don't think the gay marriage will affect the movie at the box office at all. The fact that its an R-rated musical whose main characters are junkies and drag queens might, but the gay marriage won't. If people have such a huge problem with gay people, they probably won't see it whether or not there's gay marriage in it. If people think homosexuality is wrong but show tolerance towards it, and decide to see it they probably will whether or not gay people get married in it. And obviously if people are totally fine with it, the gay marriage won't bother them (at least not in the sense that it will the homophobes). Basically, people are more likely to say, "I'm not seeing it because there are gay people and drag queens in it" than "I'm not seeing it because the gay people get married in it." Does that make any sense? I'm having a difficult time trying to verbalize... *sigh* Reviews will have a big affect on how the movie does box office-wise, I think. And of course, rentheads will as well.
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#491
Posted: 1/1/05 at 1:11pm
yes, i agree that adding gay marriage to the movie is unnecessary. it's simply not what larson wanted. i'm not trying to speak for him, but it wasn't in his original libretto, so he clearly didn't want it.
so WHY put it in NOW?
there have been debates about the time setting of this movie, but no matter WHEN it takes place, gay marriage wasn't as prevalent an issue as it is today. i feel that columbus is trying to bring RENT to present day, when he SHOULDN'T. it's perfectly fine in the 80's-early 90's.
WHY CHANGE WHAT'S PERFECT?
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#492
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:50pmI also believe the movie should remain in the mid nineties. It wouldn't make sense to update it and add the gay marriage issue.
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#493
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:09pm
there was a major debate about the time setting of the movie a couple of weeks ago... i forget which thread.
i believe it was determined that the movie is taking place in the late 80's... correct me if i'm wrong. its DEFINITELY not being brought to the present, though.
Understudy Joined: 12/30/04
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#494
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:23pm
I've heard that too, BEKA. (I'm glad its not being brought into the present.) I don't know if its true, but if it is, I HATE it. I absolutely ABHOR it. Jonathon Larson always said he was writing a rock opera for the 90's. SO WHY IS IT TAKING PLACE IN THE 80's? WHYYYY?
*takes deep breathes* Sorry, I just finished a rant against the pyschotic Michael Crawford fans (the psychotic MC fans as in the ones who are psychotic, not meant to imply that all MC fans are psychotic).
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#495
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:50pmGay MARRIAGE does not happen in the movie. They talk about if they CAN get married but the party is actually for them professing their commitment to each other. This is (essentially) a LEGAL form of gay marriage.
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#496
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:50pmThanks jacobtsf for clearing that up. Just out of curriosity where did you find out?
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#497
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:12pm
"Just out of curriosity where did you find out?"
I read the script.
Maureen ASKS(in a joke) if they could get married.
There is NO TALK of them becoming "WIFE AND WIFE" on partners(common speech in a commitment ceremony)
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#498
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:32pmwhat script though? the new one?
LOOK WHAT'S BACK...!#499
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:50pmthe Columbus script.
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