Disney sets Rob Marshall to adapt "Into the Woods"

Well, the deluxe soundtrack's up to #6 in the Top 100 music best sellers list on Amazon right now, so it looks like somebody's enjoying the movie outside of the theater fans...
 
I didn't think Crowe in Les Mis was as bad as he was made out to be. Personally, there were times when Jackman's singing wasn't the most pleasant thing to listen to either.
 
Crowe wasn't as bad as people make him out to be. He just didn't have the traditional voice type people associate with Javert. Also, he was one of the few in the cast who sang the right notes and acted the role consistently.
 
Pretty sure he was the only cast member to sing it straight, as it should be sung. I give him credit for that. Hahah...
 
Argh, I wrote like a two page review of this and the computer ate it.

Basically its a solid adaption, most of the performances were good, but they missed the point somewhat and its lacking in some key areas, mostly in the structural/script changes they made, specifically in the third act, which waters down some of the best material in the original show.
 
The Guard said:
Argh, I wrote like a two page review of this and the computer ate it.

Basically its a solid adaption, most of the performances were good, but they missed the point somewhat and its lacking in some key areas, mostly in the structural/script changes they made, specifically in the third act, which waters down some of the best material in the original show.
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What point did they miss?
 
Saw the movie. I enjoyed it though I felt like Rapunzel kinda got the shaft didn't she?
 
If this proves to be very successful, I wonder if that will convince Disney or another studio to finally get a Wicked movie done.
 
Wicked will happen. Too much money for it not to.

I wouldn't say Rapunzel got the shaft,
the only change was she didn't die, so at least she got a chance to have a somewhat happy ending. And she doesn't go insane. But she and her Prince did ride off never to be seen again so you never really find out what happens to them.
 
Sawyer said:
If this proves to be very successful, I wonder if that will convince Disney or another studio to finally get a Wicked movie done.
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Universal owns Wicked and the show is still making way too much money to even consider making a movie yet.
 
The Squirrel said:
What point did they miss?
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"Somewhat".

Thematically, one of the major points of INTO THE WOODS isn't so much that its "darker" and more serious, but more along the lines that there is some ambiguity to morality, that things aren't always so black and white, which is a far cry from the approach of the classic fairy tales. There are a few nods to this aspect in the film, but a lot of the more ambiguous character elements of the film were sort of watered down. The giantess, for instance, in the film is just kind of an evil rampaging ogre in the film VS someone with a point of view and a legit beef in the stage show, and then they kind of give the fact that she's a person with reasons behind what she's doing and the fact that she herself has been wronged lip service. The Baker's desertion and feelings about his quest is a lot less ambiguous, largely due to the omission of "No More". That element is just really watered down in the film. It's all too clean.

The stage show has a lot more shades of gray, which is part of what made it unique as a musical.

That and tonally, a lot of the dark humor is just not there. Rob Marshall made a much more serious take on the material.
 
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Eh, Chicago was a hatchet job (in the best possible way). This film is a pretty direct adaptation. Hardy anything from the show is lost, in my opinion. 90% of the music is still there, even most of the shows dialog is in tact.
 
Except they took out a lot of the moral ambiguity and the fates of certain characters.
 
The only fate changed is Rapunzel, and even that was just an accident in the show. Her leaving holds the same impact with regards to The Witch.. and her actual fate is ambiguous since we don't know what happens to her and her prince in the film.

What moral ambiguity did the movie miss?
 
I do like how the Narrator just disappears in the last act of the film, since he's dead at that point in the stage show.
 
I guess I need to see the stage show, I haven't laughed so hard at a song like I did Agony in a long damn time. I honestly love Pine in the movie and the boy that played Jack was insanely talented like wow what a voice.
 
They filmed the stage show with the original cast in the early 90s. It used to be on Netflix, but I'm sure you can find it somewhere.
 
Oh really? Thats neat. I'll look it up, we have The Fabulous Fox Theatre here in Saint Louis so maybe it will be at that soon. I think I loved Pine so much cause I didn't expect to see him in it. This was the first movie I have gone into with no knowledge about at All and loved it.
 
Hush said:
I guess I need to see the stage show, I haven't laughed so hard at a song like I did Agony in a long damn time. I honestly love Pine in the movie and the boy that played Jack was insanely talented like wow what a voice.
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Daniel Huttlestone who plays Jack was also Gavroche in the recent Les Mis movie
 
I finally got a chance to see this. I thought it was good, but not great; unlike Les Miz or Chicago, for some reason the overall structure of ITW was a little awkward when placed in a film medium.

BTW, did anyone catch internal references to other Sondheim musicals?
 
The audience didn't really know how to react to this, they chuckled at some parts but the rest they were pretty silent. I could tell many didn't know it was a musical by the amount of groans whenever a new song started and some people even got up and left. I did hear some say "I love it" at the end though.

As for me I would give it a 'C' nothing crazy special but definitely nothing horrible either. I saw the Broadway show on Netflix and thought it was great but the movie just sits at okay for me.
 
That's their problem if they didn't know that it's a musical.
 
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