Annie Remake

[Ajendo]

Urgh! I hate all this feel good crap.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Urgh! I hate all this feel good crap.

Seriously, I want a film version of Little Orphan Annie that's more accurate to the comic strip. Annie, Daddy Warbucks, Punjab, the Asp and their gang of hired henchmen driving a tank through San Francisco hunting down and beating up gays, feminists and liberals. Directed by Mel Gibson, starring Chuck Norris and Victoria Jackson, with original score by Ted Nugent.

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[PyroChamber]

For some reason, I think Jane Lynch would have made a better Miss Hannigan.

 

[danoyse]

Seriously, I want a film version of Little Orphan Annie that's more accurate to the comic strip. Annie, Daddy Warbucks, Punjab, the Asp and their gang of hired henchmen driving a tank through San Francisco hunting down and beating up gays, feminists and liberals. Directed by Mel Gibson, starring Chuck Norris and Victoria Jackson, with original score by Ted Nugent.

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And it could still be a musical.

 

[danoyse]

For some reason, I think Jane Lynch would have made a better Miss Hannigan.

She played Miss Hannigan on Broadway last summer.

 

[Pink Ranger]

And it could still be a musical.

Lyrics by Elton John (that treacherous queen will do anything for the right dollar amount).

 

[Dr. Evil]

I wonder what happens to Wallis if this film fails.

 

[Jason Kane]

Having seen the trailer, this endeavor might be the least successful adaption after the earliest efforts from the 1930s.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I wonder if there are any hardcore "Annie" purists who are having an aneurism over this

 

[Quasimod0]

Just saw the trailer. Didn't look too bad. I dont have any opinions about what an Annie film should be like. lol.

 

[Sawyer]

I wonder if there are any hardcore "Annie" purists who are having an aneurism over this

I wonder what they'd be more pissed about: that she isn't white, that she isn't redheaded, or that she doesn't have eyes that are almost entirely blank.

 

[Jason Kane]

I wonder if there are any hardcore "Annie" purists who are having an aneurism over this

Dunno but Harold Gray's doing the Charleston from his grave

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I wonder what they'd be more pissed about: that she isn't white, that she isn't redheaded, or that she doesn't have eyes that are almost entirely blank.

The last one, definitely

 

[Immortalfire]

The world needs a lot of things. A new Annie movie isn't one of them.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I just don't see the appeal to this show. Why is this such a big thing lol

 

[danoyse]

I wonder if there are any hardcore "Annie" purists who are having an aneurism over this

Actually, there's a website for Annie fans (many of them were involved in productions of the show), who have a conniption if anything isn't like the original production. They complained about last year's Broadway revival because Annie didn't have her Dorothy Hamill hair, and that they didn't do the rainbow dresses for the orphans at the end...which was all so 70s.

I saw some complaints from them over the poster for saying "It's a Hard Knock Life" instead of "It's The Hard Knock Life", which is the lyric from the song.

Annie was my first favorite musical, but I was a little too young for the original Broadway show, so it was the 1982 movie I grew up with that I loved...which I later found was apparently a Razzie-nominated critical disaster that theater purists despise.

So who knows? There are parts of the story, at least the heart of it looks like they got right, so I hope it works.

 

[danoyse]

Lyrics by Elton John (that treacherous queen will do anything for the right dollar amount).

"Oh, Elton John, give up this charade..."

 

[Pink Ranger]

I wonder what they'd be more pissed about: that she isn't white, that she isn't redheaded, or that she doesn't have eyes that are almost entirely blank.

If they wanted all that, they could have cast Lindsay Lohan.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

If they wanted all that, they could have cast Lindsay Lohan.

Zing.

 

[danoyse]

I just don't see the appeal to this show. Why is this such a big thing lol

Well, in it's original incarnation, be it the Broadway show or the 1982 movie, it introduced a generation of children (including yours truly) to musicals and theater.

You know all those YouTube videos of little girls belting out "Let It Go" from Frozen? When I was a kid, it was me, my sister, and all of our friends belting our little out-of-tune hearts out to "Tomorrow". I still have the Annie soundtrack record that I got for my 8th birthday that year. ld razz:

Having since seen it on Broadway, and having worked on a school production of it, I know the show pretty well now too, and it's a really funny show. Hannigan is a scene stealer, and it's a really sweet show about an orphan who finds a family and a billionaire falling in love with the one thing his money couldn't buy.

And the music is great. The older I get, I find I appreciate it more now. My best friend texted me once when the movie was on TV because she said she just realized now how sad "Maybe" was. "WHY IS THIS MAKING ME CRY?!" she said.

I saw the Broadway revival last year, which had its problems, but it was fun seeing little kids enjoying it as much as we did. I'm hoping this one does the same for kids now, for what it is.

 

[The Guard]

I've always found ANNIE to be a very medicore show in general. If anything, the 80's movie elevated the material. There's a more recent adaption that's pretty solid as well. And it's true that Miss Hannigan is a pretty funny role (Diaz looks like she's missed the point entirely,though). But Annie, as a character, is just bland, and her interaction with Daddy Warbucks tends to be very hit or miss.

The show has a couple of good songs, but the overall story is kind of dated and subpar, even for a musical. But it plays great in the sticks, and theatre companies trot it out almost anytime they need to make money, because kids sell tickets.

I might be biased though. I had to be on a professional casting committee once listening to like 100 little girls sing "Tomorrow" and "Maybe" and "Hard Knock Life". I'm pretty sick of the show in general.

 

[danoyse]

I've always found ANNIE to be a very medicore show in general. If anything, the 80's movie elevated the material.

It actually didn't, though. Two of the most important songs from the stage musical were cut from the the film. One was "NYC", which is when Warbucks reluctantly takes Annie out to a movie - they decide to walk ("It's only 27 blocks!"), and in giving Annie the tour of the city, that's when they actually start to bond beyond the publicity stunt this originally was supposed to be. Later, she's too tired to make the walk home, and he picks her up -with a funny moment where the kid is dangling awkwardly in his arms while he tries to figure out how to do that - sings her to sleep and carries her home.

The 1982 scrapped that song and replaced it with "Let's Go To The Movies", which isn't about Annie or Warbucks at all, it's a random tribute to the Golden Age of Hollywood. It's a nice production number, but it means nothing to the story, especially when at the end of it we're stuck watching about 5 minutes of Camille for some reason.

The 1999 TV movie put "NYC" back in, and did a much nicer job than the 1982 movie did.

The 1982 film also dropped "Something Was Missing", which is a huge moment in the stage version. That's the scene where Annie's at her lowest, and while Warbucks stumbled the first time he offered to adopt Annie, this was the moment where he got it right, and it's a beautiful song, with a father/daughter dance to go with it. They only cut it because Albert Finney couldn't sing it.

And they screwed up "Tomorrow" in the movie too. Like it or not, it's the show's iconic song, and they ditched in favor for not one, but two songs about the dog.

It rebounds a little with the White House scene, but rolling it like an afterthought over the opening credits made it look they couldn't be bothered having it as part of the movie at all (and I've read they considered cutting it entirely). And again, like it or not, "Tomorrow" has to be a centerpiece if you're making a movie musical out of Annie.

I grew up with the 1982 movie, and I love it for what it is - the finale is better than the stage musical, I love that they gave Warbucks and Hannigan a song together, and Aileen Quinn was miles better than Alicia Morton in the 1999 film. But I can see where the stage musical fans get so frustrated about with it.

 

[terry78]

And none of them are accurate to the comic strip, so there.

 

[Jason Kane]

And the bigotry reactions commence:

http://aattp.org/watch-the-not-racist-crowd-react-to-annies-blackness-in-remake-screenshots/#.Uxt3kk-QKxo.facebook

 

[The Guard]

And none of them are accurate to the comic strip, so there.

I still want to see a version of ANNIE where she has soulless white eyes.