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    When my community theater was picking out its next shoe, i was pushing hard for Rock of ages. But a friend of mine pointed out that no one in our "company" (for lack of a better term) has that rock voice.

     

    I don't know if getting rock singers instead of two Broadway trained, one opera trained, two pop singers, and two punk singers would have worked better (because the music wasn't good either. There are some real rhyming reaches and basic problems). I think the reason Zydrate Anatomy works is becaise it is mostly on The Gravedigger who is the writer of the show. He GETS the piece and had been performing it for years.

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    Again, we are all just speculating because even with all the world building exposition we are given no insights into the characters motivations. Its just poor writing.

     

    For example, i just finished a new play based on Sarah orne Jewett's A White Heron today and sent it off to a trusted reader. What I thought was clear, he didn't get so now i know i need to go into rewrites on that. I think these writers had just lived with these characters for so long THEY knew the motivations and thought it was clear but didn't have editoral oversight to help them clean it up.

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    I was disappointed in part because Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was a fantastic "fan fiction" which also explored a lot of more post-modern ideas in an entertaining way. And it's not just Marlowe in this film: the religious fuddy-duddy says the Rose theater "by any other name" would be just as foul. Shakespeare seems to take names & ideas from a number of characters.

     

    Speaking again as a playwright thats what we (or at least I do) nuggets of ideas here and a turn of a phrase tjere and a name over there. Just today i finished up a writing project and sent it off to someone. He called me with we talked out some ideas, like Marlowe and Ned both do with Will. It all just really rings true to me.

     

    I know this is probably a losing battle. SiL is the film that beat SPR. It has a rep for being overally sweet and sentimental. It isnt as smart as Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, but it just works for me.

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    I was so confused by the character of Nathan. Sometimes it seemed like he really didn't want to be doing this work. Then he puts on the suit and he is reveling in killing people and then he has Mauchusen Syndrome by proxy and is deliberately keeping her sick (but shit looking at this fucked up workd I don't really blame him) there was no consistency. Compare him, for example, with Sweeney Todd. Todd is fucked up from Jump Street and is consistent in what he does. He doesn't show Toby affection and doesnt reciprocate Mrs Lovett's affections. He is a cold killer who is plauged with doubts but never wavers. Nathan is all over the place.

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    I voted yes. I knew I would vote yes as soon as it was announced. I can't even pretend to be unbiased about this film, I love Shakespeare in Love. Ben Affleck in probably his best performance. Gwyneth Paltrow's basically coming out as an actor. Geoffrey Rush doing his scene stealingest best. Tom Wilkinson as this sort of medieval Renaissance British gangster. Joseph Fiennes as every writer's dream while also inhabiting their greatest fears and insecurities. Judi Dench COMMANDING every scene she's in. Colin Firth as this awesome sleazy Billy Zane level villain-COLIN FIRTH! Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's brilliant script that pays homage to the truth of Shakespeare while at the same time poking fun at it (in one scene, when Marlowe helps rewrite Will's script does more then Anonymous did in planting the seeds of doubt about how much Shakespeare wrote) and on a third level poking fun at modern Hollywood.

     

    As a young theater major who knew would never be a professional actor and so was beginning to dabble into playwrighting, who then didn't pick it up seriously until 10 years later, this movie spoke to me at the time. Revisiting it as a struggling, "unsuccessful" (depending on how you define success) playwright, it still holds up for me.

     

    Easy yes.

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  12. Posted

    I never understood the purpose of introducing the Zydrate for any reason other then the writers had the Zydrate Anatomy number in their head or already written and felt forced to put it in. Or to give Zdunich, the co-writer, his big number and a reason for being a "Graverobber". If it's to be a "Graverobber", why couldn't he just be robbing graves of organs and doing black market surgeries? The synthetic heroin painkiller whatever it is, plays no part in the plot. It exists only for the big number (albeit the most memorable number).

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  13. Posted

     

    Were his surgeons responsible for her face falling off? Or was that part of the original damage from the back alley surgeon?

     

    Sorvino says that he will get his surgeons to fix her face before she performs that night, so I assumed it was his surgeons that did it, but because it was rushed job or it didn't set caused her face to fall off.

     

    That's another failing of this movie though or of the script, things like this aren't explained, like WHY her face falls off.

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    Is Geneco providing the surgeries/organs as well as the financing? or is it an organ lender/financing company only?

     

    As a lender, they should probably put in place stricter guidelines, since they end up having to repossess a majority of the organs..

     

    I got the impression that GeneCo was both provider and lender since Paul Sorvino tells Paris Hilton that he'll get his best sugreons on it to fix her face after her surgery fuck up

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    Did anyone get through it in one sitting? It took me about 4 hours over the course of 2 days.

     

    I did, well sorta. I was watching it on my old Kindle Fire (my ipad died a couple of weeks ago and since I only really used it for streaming, I just switched over to my Kindle for as long as I can) and it died like twice because I knocked out the plug. So like...2 or 3 minute breaks.

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    DAE think Blind Mag should've been Mute Mag? Let's say she couldn't speak, let alone sing, due to the mysterious organ failure disease, but Geneco gave her a working larynx and voila, now she sings like the angels. I mean, so what Geneco wants to repo her Xmen eyes? She can still sing without them.

     

    OMG yes! I was like "okay so she was blind before Marni died and could sing, she got eyes and could sing, if she loses her eyes, will she not be able to sing?" a larynx would make so much more sense.

     

    Also, why is her contract with GeneCo so much a bigger deal then others? Does signing a contract in blood make it "more legal" in court? And it was already established that GeneGo had a legal right via congress to repossess. The whole signed in blood OH NO! deal was another step that made no sense-and frankly kind of childish. I know blood oaths USED to be a big deal, but today not so much let alone in 2035 or whenever this took place.

     

    And I STILL want to know why her eyes are able to project holograms and shit, and no one else has this super duper magic tech powered organs.

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  21. Posted

    Definitely, I think it was an interesting concept but I agree..wish it was executed better.

     

    Side note...what was up with the lighting in most of the movie?

     

    re: the lighting. I wondered if they were trying to give it the feel of being on stage while also trying to give it a musical quality.

     

    Or maybe Bousemann (sp?) doesn't know how to light? I'm too lazy to look it up, but who was the cinematographer? It's possible that, knowing how fast they filmed their follow-up, The Devil's Carnival: Alleluia, (14 days) that they filmed this almost as fast and didn't have time to properly light it.

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  24. Posted

    I thought the first one was interesting. I thought it was a creative way to introduce us to the world. However, you're right; it still could have been a song giving us the same information.

     

    And then they just wouldn't stop coming.

     

    The first one would have been fine if they would have had say, Sarah Brightman narrate it, ala Jamie Lee Curtis in Escape from New York/LA. Instead it's 3 GOD DAMN MINUTES of reading a comic. 3 minutes, I'd rather be reading Batman.

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  25. Posted

    This movie, apparently, started as a short called The Necro-merchant's Debt, which is a WAY BETTER TITLE. Come on, that is awesome. I would buy that goth metal album, not REPO!

     

    About the comic-book style expositions scenes, they were indeed frustrating and unnecessary. They interrupt the flow of the film (such as it is), since the music abruptly drops off during them. Plus, the Graverobber role exists solely for exposition as well, so the movie has two artificial contrivances to explain itself in a fucking MUSICAL, which is a genre engineered for characters to reveal inner thoughts and plot machinations. They just have to sing about them! It is their purpose!

     

    Speaking of the Graverobber, he sings:

    "A little glass vial?

    A little glass vial!

    And the little glass vial goes in the gun like a battery."

     

    What kind of guns take batteries? I know this is a minor things compared to the brazen absurdity of the movie, but it made me laugh. As did the lines "We made an agreement! / I will honor that agreement!"

     

    I think this movie (not just this song, which was probably the second best song and easily the catchiest) was trying too hard to make lyrical rhymes.

     

    And yes The Necromerchant's Debt is a MUCH better title.

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