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#476

Screenplay

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
#477

Screenplay

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.
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#478

Screenplay

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
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#479

Screenplay

Posted: 12/11/04 at 1:12am

Emcee-Sorry I just logged on to Broadway.com and saw they got another one (blame my ignorance on 6 hours in a car)
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#480

Screenplay

Posted: 12/11/04 at 6:15pm

BUMP(because I feel like it)
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#481

Screenplay

Posted: 12/11/04 at 6:53pm

Does 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.)
"If we don't wake up and shake the nation, we'll eat the dust of the world, wondering why...why?"
#482

Screenplay

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. Screenplay how can you not like contact?? we already had the whole "how should angel die" debate, so i'm not getting into it again...
#483

Screenplay

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
#484

Screenplay

Posted: 12/12/04 at 3:50pm

I just read the screenplay and i don't really like it. i don't know how this is going to work on film
#485

Screenplay

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.
#486

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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.
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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
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Posted: 12/31/04 at 12:52am

I 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
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Posted: 12/31/04 at 6:22pm

*bump*

We're talking about both...anyone want to continue?
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Posted: 12/31/04 at 7:31pm

I'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.
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Posted: 1/1/05 at 12:33pm

I 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.
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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?
#493

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Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:50pm

I also believe the movie should remain in the mid nineties. It wouldn't make sense to update it and add the gay marriage issue.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
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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.
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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).
But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.
#496

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Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:50pm

Gay 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.
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#497

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Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:50pm

Thanks jacobtsf for clearing that up. Just out of curriosity where did you find out?
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#498

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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)
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#499

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Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:32pm

what script though? the new one?
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
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Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:50pm

the Columbus script.
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

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