Rent - the Movie
Mon, 13 Mar 2006, 12:54 pmWalter Plinge6 posts in thread
Rent - the Movie
Mon, 13 Mar 2006, 12:54 pmSo...
I must admit that up until last night I had managed to avoid any wholesale exposure to "Rent" (apart from the send up in "Team America")
Primarily for the same reason I have avoided "Miss Saigon" and unsuccessfully avoided "Aida" (which is now one of my faves)
For the most part I enjoyed it...
but, I have one question:
Am I the only person who thought the ending was a cop-out?
For all the talk about it being hard-hitting etc. I thought Puccini had much more guts for actually letting his Mimi die.
What do other people think?
or am I about to be lynched...
Paul Treasure
PS You should see how bad my seats are for Madam Butterfly
H1-2 Upper Gallery, I do not think there are worse seats at His Maj, apart from the ones behind the pillars
Serves me right for not booking earlier
I must admit that up until last night I had managed to avoid any wholesale exposure to "Rent" (apart from the send up in "Team America")
Primarily for the same reason I have avoided "Miss Saigon" and unsuccessfully avoided "Aida" (which is now one of my faves)
For the most part I enjoyed it...
but, I have one question:
Am I the only person who thought the ending was a cop-out?
For all the talk about it being hard-hitting etc. I thought Puccini had much more guts for actually letting his Mimi die.
What do other people think?
or am I about to be lynched...
Paul Treasure
PS You should see how bad my seats are for Madam Butterfly
H1-2 Upper Gallery, I do not think there are worse seats at His Maj, apart from the ones behind the pillars
Serves me right for not booking earlier
The fact that Mimi didn't
Sun, 19 Mar 2006, 06:17 pmWalter Plinge
The fact that Mimi didn't die in Rent is something that some people had trouble with way back when Larson wrote the original script. Basically his reasoning is this- the whole musical is about life and celebrating the act of living and he felt to have a death at the end...to end on that...sort of 'negative note' would take away from the message he was trying to get across. The message of LIFE. So yeah. Personally, I was never bothered by Mimi's...uhh... non-death but I think the movie could have handled it better-it was abit cheesy. Good to hear you enjoyed it overall. The movie theatres were I live have stopped playing it. Hasn't even been three full weeks yet! But yeah- yay for Rent. And Rent talk!