Sunset boulevard movie 2020- Page 4

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 1/11/19 at 10:16pm

Theatre Fan3 said: "What do you think of Betty Buckley's interpretation of "As If We Never Said Goodbye"?

Sunset Blvd - Buckley - As if we never said goodbye"

Perfection, especially her "I've come home at last!" 

[chernjam]

Posted: 1/11/19 at 10:41pm

Theatre Fan3 said: "What do you think of Betty Buckley's interpretation of "As If We Never Said Goodbye"?

Sunset Blvd - Buckley - As if we never said goodbye"

I was fortunate to see every Bway Norma at least twice.  Betty Buckley had an incredibly nuanced performance.  After Close's original interpretation which was more cold, calculated, distant, Buckley brought a heartbreaking vulnerability that made As If We Never Said Goodbye a watershed moment.  And musically she's spectacular.
I'd love to see Karen Mason in the role again.  She had the herculean task of filling in for Close when the show was sold out 8 months in advance - and really won people over with the power of her vocal chops.  Her "As If" is interesting.  She held the word "BRIGHTER" than we knew it (rather than holding "HOME" like Buckley) which really was unique and did blow the roof off the place.

 

[Dave28282]

Posted: 1/12/19 at 8:27am

She is great! She really does know how to paint with notes. The notes become actors/emotion evokers. This is what makes it acting through song.

I do feel that she is over-emoting at times, which Hugh Jackman does through all the Les Mis film, which takes away from the sincerity. But this can also be because it was the final performance on Broadway, and performers then tend to give too much/over-emote on top of the singing.

That is what would make this particular performance not suitable for film, but she definitely has the talent to be a great film Norma, because she understands the language and artform.

Also, the Joe in that clip is the best Joe I have ever seen/heard. He nails the artform.

It basically comes down to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4NNlEPraKo

 

[David10086]

Posted: 1/13/19 at 8:18pm

I also saw Buckley back in 1996, and she was spectacular. I also saw Petula Clark a few years later (on tour) and she was downright awful. Saw Glenn Close in 2017, and fell in love with the musical all over again.

 

I do wonder why the scaled down revival didn't go on tour? 

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 3:34am

If Glenn wins the Oscar this year, which she very well might do, do you think that will help get the Sunset Boulevard movie going?

[Justin D]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 7:19am

I also feel that a musical casualty might be "to much in love to care". I feel that it might get the chop and replaced with something new (chances at song nominations for oscar) and I always felt (and I think i red someplace that ALW also felt) that the song kinda feels out of place in the show, it also has only one reprise.

I do love the song though, but in addition to probably cutting alot of the incidental singing, I do feel that this one will get the 'swap'

[binau]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 7:29am

Maybe because I am not particularly fond of the source material I care less, but I personally hope for extensive, extensive score cutting - there is too much tuneless superfluous recitative garbage that makes me cringe. In a perfect would for me, they would butcher the score so it perhaps only has 10 songs max, such as:

Surrender
With One Look
The Greatest Star of All
New Ways to Dream
The Perfect Year
Sunset Boulevard
As if We Never Said Goodbye

This need the Rob Marshall Nine treatment. 

[chernjam]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 9:16am

Justin D said: "I also feel that a musical casualty might be "to much in love to care". I feel that it might get the chop and replaced with something new (chances at song nominations for oscar) and I always felt (and I think i red someplace that ALW also felt) that the song kinda feels out of place in the show, it also has only one reprise.

I do love the song though, but in addition to probably cutting alot of the incidental singing, I do feel that this one will get the 'swap'"

I agree that Too much in love to care has always seemed out of place to me.  It sounds way too cheery of a love song and jumps the story ahead a bit clumsily to me (Betty goes from breaking an engagement and professing her love and finding it's mutual with Joe instantly in an almost a "SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW" Happy ending) that the next scene the foreboding, eerie, disaster in the making tone comes back seemed a bit jarring.  I don't remember ALW saying he agrees with that, but I'd be curious if he had and whether he feels that the score is kind of "frozen" at this point.  

As for that getting swapped out in a movie score - and that this would be an opportunity to pen a song to win the Oscar, I'd be surprised by that.  I'd think he'd want it to be a Norma song that is nominated - and gives Glenn another opportunity to win in another category.  If that's the case, the final scene could lend itself to something new rather than the reprises of Surrender and With One Look.

 

[Dave28282]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 10:13am

I hope they keep all the music that is between Norma and Joe, including the dialogue. It is the language we must embrace. 

I am not fond of the ensemble numbers in this show. They feel very unnecessary and bland.

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 11:21am

Dave28282 said: "I hope they keep all the music that is between Norma and Joe, including the dialogue. It is the language we must embrace.

I am not fond of the ensemble numbers in this show. They feel very unnecessary and bland."

I'm a HUGE fan of the score, and even I agree generous cuts would be the right decision (goodbye 'The Lady's Paying'....always found that number super cringy and too campy). But they simply MUST have a fabulous 'Let's Have Lunch'. That song would set the old-hollywood studio tone perfectly if filmed correctly. This film is going to need a brilliant director (please no Rob Marshall).

[Lot666]

Posted: 1/14/19 at 12:20pm

Personally, I love "The Lady's Paying", but I would like them to tone down the stereotypical flaming-gay-come-on aspect of the shop owner.

[Stanton3]

Posted: 1/18/19 at 5:14pm

The line can be changed to "There nothing wrong with being your age unless your acting 20" 

 

[SweetLips22]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 3:48pm

As I said on another thread I am so over Glenn Close in anything.

Nicole Kidman please, and thank you.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 4:04pm

Nicole Kidman is the right age, but shes incapable of emoting because her facial muscles are always paralyzed.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 4:22pm

You obviously havent seen Nicole Kidmans jaw dropping performance this year in The Destroyer where she looks as haggard as is about humanly possible. I highly recommend it.

[Elibal]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 4:38pm

This has always desperately needed a Rose's Turn at the end for Norma, if they add anything I also hope it's a rewrite of the final scene.

[jo]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 5:23pm

Elibal said: "This has always desperately needed a Rose's Turn at the end for Norma, if they add anything I also hope it's a rewrite of the final scene."

Sorry, but that finale is one of the most iconic in film noir history!  Her dramatic walk down the staircase and her final lines cannot be matched!

 

 

Updated On: 1/19/19 at 05:23 PM

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 5:27pm

I think Streep should do it. I saw Betty and she was divine. Close just does not have the pipes.

[QueenAlice]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 5:35pm

The person who i think really should do it is Michelle Pfeiffer. Shes the right age, the right beauty, the right mystique and she could sing it just fine for film.

[Stanton3]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 5:49pm

Last Summer I edited together a DVD of the show from the original staging!  It took years to collect this footage.  It is composed of professional footage I could get  and the best amateur footage.  I did this because I enjoyed the show and for not being a professional editor I think I did a great job.  I never edited anything before. I made this DVD because if a film is never made people can still see Glenn Close iconic performance!   

[bwaybrent]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 6:01pm

Stanton3 said: "Last Summer I edited together a DVD of the show from the original staging! It took years to collect this footage. It is composed of professional footage I could getand the bestamateur footage. I did this because I enjoyed the show and for not being a professional editor I think I did a great job. I never edited anything before. I made this DVD because if a film is never made people can still see Glenn Close iconic performance! "

I really thought about doing this myself when I saw all those videos floating around, but laziness won. You should share it, I’m sure a lot of us would appreciate it 

Updated On: 1/19/19 at 06:01 PM

[jo]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 7:10pm

Glenn Close performed her 2 iconic musical numbers from the original staging during ALWebber's birthday concert --

 

[jo]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 7:13pm

 

[chernjam]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 7:27pm

Slightly off-topic - but, why the heck don't they release the videos of the professional shot versions of Sunset (and other Broadway productions for that matter).  The hours I spend looking for something here or there, and watch countless videos, I'd love to see some professional shots -even if they're not multiple angle or the greatest quality of audio.  

(I can barely find anything from Aspects of Love...which really saddens me)

Anyway... back on topic - wish all you want, the only way this will be made is with Close attached to it.  The good thing is I'm sure there will be multiple takes and some auto-tuning of her voice in post-edits 

[jo]

Posted: 1/19/19 at 7:59pm

chernjam said:

As for that getting swapped out in a movie score - and that this would be an opportunity to pen a song to win the Oscar, I'd be surprised by that. I'd think he'd want it to be a Norma song that is nominated - and gives Glenn another opportunity to win in another category. If that's the case, the final scene could lend itself to something new rather than the reprises of Surrender and With One Look.

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The Oscar rules, as they stand now, give the Oscar only to the composer(s). That was what happened to the Oscar-winning song from EVITA.