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| Joe Vitus |
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Billy,
You're likely right. I do like the image of all the fire falling in the street at the opening, and I think there are a number of strong songs ("The Tango Maureen" being my favorite). But it's such an oddly sexless musical, even more so than something like Mame, and the ending drives me nuts. But it has something of the same effect on me that Fame did. Which like Rent played at being gritty and downtown while being largely false and very safe. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:36 pm |
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| I liked "The Tango Maureen" also. Just not the movie it was in. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:37 pm |
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| he, he, he |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:37 pm |
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| I do think Tony Rapp is adorable. I liked him better in Dazed and Confused, though. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:37 pm |
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| Joe, I'm getting my Masters degree in Educational Technology. I've a choice between a thesis or an internship, hoping for the latter (it's more hands-on and possibly paid as well, which would help). Either way, I'm going to be addressing the topic of Cyberbullying, and particularly an awareness and preventative program to be used in grade 5. After that, anything goes - other grades, other venues. And after graduation (June or November), I'll be pursuing the PhD. Thanks for asking! |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:39 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: So I rented Rent the other night. I've watched it a couple of times since I got it. Never saw it onstage. The music is often good, but I can't figure out if I like the movie or think it's crap. Does that split response make any sense?
I had a split response too. Liked some of the performances (Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia) and a number of songs (Light My Candle, Tango: Maureen. Seasons of Love), hated a lot (the whole Santa Fe sequence, Maureen's performance art, the "great artistic" filming that looks like unwatchable, pretentious garbage.
It didn't help that it was directed by Chris Columbus, who's pedestrian at best. |
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Quote: I do think Tony Rapp is adorable.
I think Jesse L. Martin is sexy as all get-out...with a voice to match. |
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| I watched a bit of the movie of Rent. Remember the expression on the audience's face at the end of "Springtime for Hitler"? That was what I looked like. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:52 pm |
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Syd wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: So I rented Rent the other night. I've watched it a couple of times since I got it. Never saw it onstage. The music is often good, but I can't figure out if I like the movie or think it's crap. Does that split response make any sense?
I had a split response too. Liked some of the performances (Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, and Wilson Jermaine Heredia) and a number of songs (Light My Candle, Tango: Maureen. Seasons of Love), hated a lot (the whole Santa Fe sequence, Maureen's performance art, the "great artistic" filming that looks like unwatchable, pretentious garbage.
It didn't help that it was directed by Chris Columbus, who's pedestrian at best.
You seem to have responded pro and con to everything I did. I will say about the bad footage Rapp has shot, someone pointed out on the commentary track that the point wasn't these were the great artists of our time, and that really we never get a sense the characters in La Boheme are great artists, either. They are just people living their dream. I think that's a fair comment. |
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Rod wrote: I watched a bit of the movie of Rent. Remember the expression on the audience's face at the end of "Springtime for Hitler"? That was what I looked like.
Me too. |
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lissa wrote: Joe, I'm getting my Masters degree in Educational Technology. I've a choice between a thesis or an internship, hoping for the latter (it's more hands-on and possibly paid as well, which would help). Either way, I'm going to be addressing the topic of Cyberbullying, and particularly an awareness and preventative program to be used in grade 5. After that, anything goes - other grades, other venues. And after graduation (June or November), I'll be pursuing the PhD. Thanks for asking!
I wish you the best. I think you've chosen a great topic, and considering what your degree is, the internship sounds like the better shot. I was an English major, so writing a thesis seemed important, especially if I was going on to a PhD (which it looks like I won't).
And yes, Jesse L. Martin is one attractive, talented man. Personally, I think he's more attractive on Law and Order (and, oddly, les masculine), but maybe that's effect a man in a suit has on me.  |
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Nancy wrote: Rod wrote: I watched a bit of the movie of Rent. Remember the expression on the audience's face at the end of "Springtime for Hitler"? That was what I looked like.
Me too.
Funny, that was my response watching a number from The Producers . |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Nancy wrote: Rod wrote: I watched a bit of the movie of Rent. Remember the expression on the audience's face at the end of "Springtime for Hitler"? That was what I looked like.
Me too.
Funny, that was my response watching a number from The Producers .
Indeed the film of the musical The Producers was nearly as bad. Two hours of Nathan Lane mugging - shudder. Both are films made by people who only have a vague, theoretical understanding of what musical comedy is about, and processes of transforming it into cinema. |
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Thanks again, Joe. My writing is the reason I've been hired twice so far to be a TA for professors who know me and my work. I am the writing consultant for students, and am constantly amazed at the lack of basic skills (grammar, punctuation, coherence). For the PhD, it's not only writing, it's research; but as my favorite prof has told me, for qualitative research, it's all in the way you write it up. So far, a 3.93 GPA proves I'm on the right track (yeah, I'm boasting *grins* but I've worked hard).
Agreed, re Jesse L.
I do, however, seem to be a minority of 1 in liking Rent. That's okay - maybe it's just the music, or what it's represented for me personally. I still love it. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:13 pm |
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| No one else's opinion should deter you from a work you love. Who cares what others think? I'm the only person here to defend The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I always will. I think it's brilliantly done (written, performed, designed, directed), and it speaks to me. What more could one ask for? |
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