Gorgeous musical enough to go down in history - "Hamilton"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Hamilton".
Title Hamilton (2020), alias Hamilton Musical.
"Hamilton" (Hamilton) is a musical on Broadway in the United States. After its release, it has a very high reputation, and the ticket price is very high, but it has always been hard to find a ticket. Since 2015, it has been staged eight times a week and has become the most popular and popular Broadway musical at the moment.
"Hamilton" uses rap, jazz and other music radically and boldly to tell the life of Alexander Hamilton, the founding father of the United States, in 150 minutes. The show was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards, won 11 awards, including Best Musical, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and won a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for its self-titled album.
In February 2020, Disney, which is not bad, spent $75 million to buy the exclusive distribution rights of the film version of "Hamilton". This is the most expensive "purchase of a completed work" transaction in film history. "Hamilton" is making history on and off stage.
Disney then invested US$10 million to make a high-definition video version of the film, and plans to release it in 2021, with "Hamilton" as an annual focus.
Unexpectedly, the new crown epidemic swept the world, and the negative response of the US government made the theaters open indefinitely. Disney decided to release the movie version of "Hamilton" through its own streaming media platform.
The prime location of the "Hamilton" musical has a ticket price of more than 800 US dollars, and the high ticket price cannot stop the enthusiasm of the audience. The high-reputation musical was launched, and it was hard to get a ticket. The show was sold out, and the audience who watched it said it was good.
When it first appeared on Broadway in early August 2015, the New York Times drama critic said it was a masterpiece that "let people sell their houses and mortgage their children to buy tickets."
Audiences who we were not able to watch live can now see this magnificent musical that is enough to go down in history through streaming media, which is a very happy event worth celebrating.
The most straightforward feeling I have after watching it is: "Hamilton" is very worth watching, and the audition experience is definitely worth the 150 minutes you spend.
"Hamilton" is different from a drama in the ordinary sense, but adopts a rap performance content that is close to the language style of young people. Can you imagine that a group of founding fathers communicated in the way of rap, and the whole scene was like a battle of hip-hop?
The charm of musical stage plays lies in their appeal. The actors use powerful words and music to interpret the life of the founding fathers of the United States in front of the audience. The music of "Hamilton" is bold and varied, the lines focus on rhythm, the rhythm is strong, and it is witty and humorous, which makes people addicted.
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Puerto Rican actor, composer, lyricist, and rapper born in New York in 1980. He creatively combines "eighteenth century history" and "musical theater" And "Hip-Hop", eventually forming the "Hamilton" we see.
"Hamilton" has a novel form, but the content of the performance is very detailed and elegant. Based on Ron Chernow's 800-page Biography of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda provides a detailed account of the founding father's life.
Speaking of the founding of the United States, we must think of a series of iconic things such as the shooting of Lexington in 1775, the founding father Washington, the "U.S. Constitution" and the "Declaration of Human Rights". Hamilton was one of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 - July 12, 1804), one of the founding fathers of the United States, one of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, a financial expert, the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, and the U.S. party system The founder of the United States occupies an important position in the history of American financial, fiscal and industrial development.
Because of his outstanding contribution, Hamilton was later printed on the $10. In 2006, Hamilton was ranked fifth among the 100 most influential people in the United States by The Atlantic Monthly, an authoritative journal in the United States.
Hamilton was an orphan, an illegitimate child from the British West Indies. At the age of 11, he went to Pennsylvania to work as a lumberjack. After the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, the 18-year-old Hamilton joined the North American militia in the Battle of Boston, and then repeatedly stood in the war. Merit and become George Washington's most trusted right-hand man.
Later, he was involved in a sex scandal and was killed at the age of 49 in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr.
Of America's Founding Fathers, none had a more dramatic life and death than Alexander Hamilton. In laying the foundations of America's later wealth and power, none of the founding veterans did as much as Hamilton.
Hamilton's record and achievements are very prominent. As Washington's valet attache, he made great contributions to the Revolutionary War, most notably at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781; he was the chief writer of The Federalist Papers; he served as Secretary of the Treasury during Washington's presidency (1789-1795) made extraordinary achievements, created the predecessor of the Federal Reserve, the First Bank of the United States; as the leader of the Federalists, he laid the foundation for the emergence of the two-party system in the United States. His legacy is the key to America's future rise.
All of these things are faithfully represented in the musical.
The musical "Hamilton" is like a microcosm, not only showing the life of the founding fathers, but also showing their inclusive and multicultural side. The sea is open to all rivers, and the market is used to test the creation of musicals. The works that the masses like are good works. It is hard to get a vote to break out of the siege, and no one cares about the creative failure. In terms of creative freedom, the success of "Hamilton" is equally enviable.
I think, if we put aside the restrictions such as censorship, we can also use modern music to express the life of famous historical figures, pass the market test, polish the musical, and then launch the movie version, can we also get good results? In fact, we do not lack material, we lack only discovery.
The biography of the founding fathers that has been tested by the market,
Gorgeous musical enough to go down in history.
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