This evening I saw Rent with a couple folks from QGPA and several of the ladies from the law student queers. It was interesting. It’s a film adaptation, and on the whole a good one. There were a few elements I missed from the stage, but on the whole it worked, and there’s a great deal that can be done on screen that cannot be done on stage. One of the big things that changes is that even from the back row, you can see facial expressions, something very missing <\/p>\n
The big thing I missed was the “Christmas Bells” song. Gone. Two or three items out of it are cut out and turned into spoken word bits, but on the whole it is missing. I think it did a better job of presenting a sympathetic view of the homeless than any other part of the show. They left the music and much of the scene from “Will I Lose My Dignity” and “Life Support”, which appealed to me almost as much. Also, Joanne’s parents are put in a very different light in this one. It does add in a timely fascimile of marriage for the homo couple. It also cuts out the sex scene which I have always been uncomfortable with (though I think that’s more a problem in my head than a problem with the scene). I think on the whole I prefer the broadway show, but this was one hell of alot more affordable, and still good.<\/p>\n
I see alot of myself in the story. I also find it interesting how in the movie, you see the main characters walking, taking the subway, biking, but never driving, save when Mark and Roger sell out. If there are two characters from the movie version I identify with, it would be Mark and Tom. Usually, I don’t see myself in the Tom character. But the movie version, the movie version I see myself in. And the movie Angel (out of drag) wasn’t as attractive as the stage Angel (out of drag). I see a major parallel between Rent’s Angel and Sandman’s Death. But that’s another point.<\/p>\n
Watching the show, I started thinking about how I am very much not making the most of the moment I am in. I’m sulking in alot of ways, This evening I saw Rent with a couple folks from QGPA and several of the ladies from the law student queers. It was interesting. It’s a film adaptation, and on the whole a good one. There were a few elements I missed from the stage, but on the whole it worked, and there’s a great … Continue reading “Rent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}