#51
Posted: 12/25/07 at 12:10pm
I still don't see HOW the Ballad or the Epilogue could've worked. Over the ending credits? That's basically the equivalent to "I Move On" playing over the credits of Chicago. During the opening credits? Most people wouldn't be listening to the lyrics anyway. I would just like one person to give a detailed account of how they would've included the Ballad and the Epilogue into the movie. Just saying "if done right, it would've been breathtaking" isn't sufficient. If "done right", Good Vibrations could've been made into a brilliant movie.
I, personally, feel that the new ending is haunting in its own way. Sure, it's much more quiet than the stage version's ending...oh but wait, this isn't the stage version! I think that the final shot is so beautiful and sad, that if the Epilogue were to start afterwards, I would've been pissed off and the audience would've started laughing. The Ballads work best on stage. I'm sure there is some screenwriter out there who could've made the Ballads work, but John Logan (after multiple tries) couldn't find a way. We have to accept that. What w have now is an incredible movie. Musical or otherwise.
I, personally, feel that the new ending is haunting in its own way. Sure, it's much more quiet than the stage version's ending...oh but wait, this isn't the stage version! I think that the final shot is so beautiful and sad, that if the Epilogue were to start afterwards, I would've been pissed off and the audience would've started laughing. The Ballads work best on stage. I'm sure there is some screenwriter out there who could've made the Ballads work, but John Logan (after multiple tries) couldn't find a way. We have to accept that. What w have now is an incredible movie. Musical or otherwise.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
