When adapting a book into a movie, voiceover is a reliable fallback.
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Mm Whatcha Say?
The rise of home viewing has led to an increase in the use of open captions, even when the viewer is fluent in the language spoken in the movie.
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WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Mona Hudson
So Kate Hudson’s in the new Knives Out movie Glass Onion, in which the Mona Lisa painting plays a pivotal role.
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When Bad is Good
Striving for what’s traditionally considered “great” in art is overrated as an objective virtue.
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No NY No NY No
It’s a cliche to say that setting a story in New York turns the city into an important character within the movie’s firmament.
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Lyle, Lyle, Dramaturgy
A musical’s primary dramaturgy is rooted in which parts of the story the composers decide to set to music.
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The “Greatest” Showmen
Does anyone else find it weird that Pasek and Paul scored two straight movie musicals with basically the same plots?
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This Way to the Missionary
In my 32 year lifetime, has anyone converted more adolescent disciples to the religion of Musicals than Idina Menzel?
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