In the heights After watching In the heights for more than two hours, I still want to write down some of my thoughts. Straight to the point, as a movie, I only give 6 points here, regardless of the nature of music, singing and dancing. In my less than three-year career in musicals, I have seen some musicals of varying levels. In my personal understanding, the most basic criteria for evaluating a musical include production level (here includes some hardware, music, actors, etc.), script and characters. Under the conditions that these three points are mature, a musical will not be too ugly (this is also the reason why some domestic musicals are bad). Of course, ITH, which was produced on Broadway and won a Tony Award, should not be discussed at this level, so by my personal standard of what is a really good musical, I would like to talk about why IHT is an excellent musical, but it is difficult to achieve excellence. The quality of the film made me feel almost something. In addition, personal standards are extremely subjective and not authoritative, and all different opinions are accepted. The play should be based on the script and the characters as the soul. This is the case with movies and musicals. As a musical, music and drama should not be separated. After a character sings a song, the emotions that should be expressed and the psychology that should be transformed must be there. ITH has done a good job in musicals, such as Nina's breath and Paciencia Y before her mother-in-law died. Fe are all very good performances, the melody is nice and the lyrics are moving, and I have reached a deep empathy when I watch it. So since the movie version of the essence of the musical has not been lost, why don't I like it? The key lies in the difference between a theater and a theater. What's more terrible is that, as the foundation of whether a work of art can be loved or not, I don't agree with many of the ideas that ITH wants to express. First, let’s talk about the “key”, two hours of continuous singing and dancing, and the warm atmosphere of the Latin American community. It only cheered me up at the beginning of the movie. Later, as the plot unfolded, I became more and more tired. Maybe this That's why I only remember the song at the beginning of the film, and it doesn't matter after that. The theater has a midfield, and the face-to-face communication with the actors and the audience, the transmission of true feelings can also stimulate the concentration of the story. The big screen lost the charm of the scene, reduced the emotions, and the sense of distance distorted the lively singing and dancing. I'm thinking that there is another reason probably because, as a work of lmm university, the characters of ITH's stories are not mature enough, too many things are on the surface, and the fine points are also treated as songs and dances, just like when the end is coming to an end. The people in the community where the power was shut down started dancing with the instigation of the nail shop owner, and also put up the flags of various Latin American countries (it really embarrassed me), I don't know if the musical version has this plot, in short, lmm is the most real and genuine Second-generation immigrants, writing this embarrassing plot of low-level Facebooking of Latin American communities is really hard for me to accept. Including the director who directed Crazy Rich Asian's film, it's hard to believe he can give the film more color. With the flag plot above, I thought about it again, ITH is essentially a Hollywood product, targeting the North American market, which includes a considerable portion of white people. After the great success of Hamilton, lmm has become a hot figure in the United States. He has won major awards, visited the White House, TV performances, etc. His works represented by Ham have occupied the cultural highland of the United States. Can it be explained? In my opinion why is he so white. In ITH's story, Usnavi stayed at the high and low levels. The film did not explain in detail whether the situation there improved, whether the power outage would continue in the hot summer, or whether Nina was respected at Stanford. People continued to dance and sing on the streets, as if at the opening. Same. I personally find it ridiculous that in a review I saw from The New Yorker, author Anthony lane was not too happy with ITH, writing: "Stanford, in fact,
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