The IN THE HEIGHTS Film Adaptation Thread — Page 36

There's no point in comparing the ITH runtime to other movies, regardless if they had intermissions, or whether they were musicals. How long a movie (or stage show) FEELS has little to do with how long it actually is. It has more to do with how it's paced, how it's structured, and how it's written. A 4-hour movie can breeze by, and an 80 minute movie can feel like an eternity. So any disagreement here just comes down to personal taste. I didn't feel the movie was too long, because I was loving it, and I was always hungry for the next scene, and on the edge of my seat. But if someone wasn't enjoying the movie as much, or wasn't as invested in the new storylines, then it's understandable that it would feel long.

This was shared by LMM on Twitter the other day - Doreen Montalvo, who passed away last fall, seeing her appearance in Breathe during a studio session in February 2020:

https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1403806787015487500

kidbroadway2 said: "Anecdotal, but I've already gone back and watched In the Heights on HBOMaxagain for the second time in 2-3 days AND replayed a few of the songs nearly most of this weekend.

Does any of this show up in the box office numbers? No.


Why on earth would you expect it to show up?

It flopped on HBO Max too.

http://deadline.com/2021/06/in-the-heights-hbo-max-viewership-box-office-opening-1234774865/

http://variety.com/2021/film/box-office/in-the-heights-box-office-hbo-max-1234995410/

It’s easy to blame the marketing (which was HUGE) and the day-and-date release strategy, but the truth is that audiences largely ignored it, even HBO Max subscribers. It’s a flop. End of story. Expect Warner to downplay the ads this week to cut their losses and call it a day.

Updated On: 6/14/21 at 02:49 PM

I'll be honest, I don't even remember Kevin's racial feelings towards Benny in the original musical, so I didn't miss it. As to it being left, I'm fine with it being left out. The theme of the movie is "us against the world" so in this fairy tale-esque story, there isn't room to let that breathe on the screen.



As to the flopping, it's sad but not surprising that it was DOA at the box office. They should've done what A Quiet Place II did and hold streaming for 45 days I believe, that way people felt the urgency to go see it. I knew at some point Warner Bros idea to same-day stream their biggest movies would backfire sooner rather than later - at some point, being an event movie doesn't feel like an event movie when you can enjoy a lazy summer weekend and get around to it when you feel like it.

JSquared2 said: "kidbroadway2 said: "Anecdotal, but I've already gone back and watched In the Heights on HBOMaxagain for the second time in 2-3 days AND replayed a few of the songs nearly most of this weekend.

Does any of this show up in the box office numbers? No.


Why on earth would you expect it to show up?


You both are misinterpreting what I'm saying. I never said I thought it should show up. I'm saying that plenty of people probably watched it on HBO Max and would have helped BO numbers otherwise.



Also just saw the HBO Max numbers weren't great. That doesn't change my opinion - the best idea was to release it last year in the summer during the height of the pandemic. wouldn't be dealing with these issues..



Bottom line this movie is VERY good and everyone agrees. The issues are in the script, but the music and overall movie is fantastic and easily replayable.

Updated On: 6/14/21 at 04:04 PM

Cutting the Benny-Kevin storyline does fail to highlight a real issue in these communities, and gives Benny basically no conflict other than "wants to bone a girl who's going to college"

I really liked that they took that out. It just was not necessary for two men who support and care for the same people and love their communities would have an issue with each other just based on "you are not good enough for my daughter due to your race". It's been done a million times. Lin was deeply affected by living in Trumps' America (weren't we all?) and I don't think we need to see more division and hatred. Clearly, he agreed. This is not West Side Story.

yikes, the film really did duplicate multiple black dancers, they knew this conversation would surface and tried to cover their asses.

https://www.tiktok.com/@thickblackthot/video/6973091657688370437?sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6931944987279214086&is_from_webapp=v1&is_copy_url=0

sng said: "yikes, the film really did duplicate multiple black dancers, they knew this conversation would surface and tried to cover their asses.

https://www.tiktok.com/@thickblackthot/video/6973091657688370437?sender_device=pc&sender_web_id=6931944987279214086&is_from_webapp=v1&is_copy_url=0"

Starting this video with "Lin-Manuel Miranda will pay for his crimes" sounds a little like a threat. She gonna hurt Lin?

Sutton Ross said: "I really liked that they took that out. It just was not necessary for two men who support and care for the same people and love their communities would have an issue with each other just based on "you are not good enough for my daughter due to your race". It's been done a million times. Lin was deeply affected by living in Trumps' America (weren't we all?) and I don't think we need to see more division and hatred. Clearly, he agreed. This is not West Side Story."

But if you're going to take out the racial conflict, you kind of need to bring those Afro Latinx voices to the front too... Otherwise you're just covering up a very real Inter-Latinx issue and not even going for a "We're all in this together" bent. Afro-Latinx people were background for this movie.

yikes, the film really did duplicate multiple black dancers, they knew this conversation would surface and tried to cover their asses.

Ehhh... I'm sure they duplicated a lot of people for those shots, they did feel very artificial. But it does highlight the lack of them overall when you can point out the individual dancers.

It's a shame that this movie isn't doing better at the box office, I for one really enjoyed the movie as a whole in spite of some script/adaptation/editing issues here and there. I still liked it again seeing it on the big screen which the bigger numbers (the opening, "96,000", "Paciencia Y Fe", and "When The Sun Goes Down" really worked more than a smaller screen.

It still got pretty great reviews (far better than most movie musical adaptations in the past few years) which made me very happy to read. Some comments around some websites are scared; that not only will this make Hollywood scared to take a chance on Latinx focused stories and characters, but will harm the musical film genre. Which honestly is just silly to think about, plus we still have countless more movie musicals on the way this year and beyond, in a new era which I would like to call: "The Film Musical Blitzkrieg".