The original "Rocky" is one hell of a good movie and one hell of a good story.
I just don't know if I see it as a musical. I could actually picture everything working nicely up until the boxing matches. That's where it could potentially fall apart and the tension fizzle out. Film can get up close and capture physical events in ways you can't do on a stage. I suppose if you had some clever "slo-mo" staging, and giant TV screens on either side, the fights might work.
But the story up until then could easily be musicalized, and potentially quite well (in the right hands).
The other problem I have is that everyone knows the ending already. When the movie first came out, it was a big deal not to reveal the ending. It made it really compelling. But the outcome is "old news" now. This is one of the things I hate about musicalizing overly-familiar source material. It sounds good and comfortable, because you have a reaction to it in advance ... until you're actually sitting in the audience whispering to the person next to you, "I've seen this. I know what happens already."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Updated On: 6/2/11 at 09:11 PM
