That's right, it's such a luxurious and seemingly unreliable lineup, forming a movie that you can hardly refuse. These days, it is popular to form a team to fight, the US team and Iron Man formed the Avengers, and Superman is also busy fighting Batman. We have actually tried this style in the Chinese circle. Beijing Renyi has filmed a four-act drama called "Xianheng Hotel", which features classic characters from Lu Xun such as Ah Q, Kong Yiji, Madman, and Xianglin's wife. See How do you feel when these well-known names stand on a stage?
The ancient and pioneering stage plays have never lacked the spirit of adventure. The fairy tale "Magic Black Forest" is also born in Broadway and is a musical. It's just that the original drama is darker and more adult than the current movie version, full of death, betrayal and vengeance, and always chants with beautiful singing; there is a weird but charming charm.
Several fairy tales are combined into one, it is easy to think of the recent popular American drama "Fairy Tale Town", but in fact "Magic Black Forest" has been premiered as early as 1986, and it has been popular with everyone since moving to Broadway in 1987. Welcome, can be called the predecessor of the chaotic faction.
It’s not difficult to stew indiscriminately, but some people stewed the Buddha over the wall, while others stewed it into "pearl jade and white jade soup." The key depends on the master who is in charge. It is the famous Rob Marshall. Some friends may say "I have never heard of the famous", it doesn't matter, the director behind the scenes is often overshadowed by his works, and this Mr. Marshall has a good relationship with China. Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi's "Memoirs of a Geisha" is him. His handwriting; and by virtue of "Chicago" to make a musical once again win the Oscar, it is his most proud deed.
Rob Marshall was born in line dance on Broadway, and most of his works after he came to the movie circle were musicals, and he has never lacked big names to help out, and this time he also grabbed a good hand; just give an example: "Captain Jack" Is Johnny Depp big enough? Who is acting in this film? The Big Bad Wolf in "Little Red Riding Hood"!
With the successful bottoming on the stage, and the addition of superstars and celebrities, it shouldn't be too bad. Disney arranged for the movie to be released on Christmas last year. It can also be said to be aiming at the awards season, pointing to the Oscars. However, the film eventually won no prizes in heavyweight awards, and only got nominations for costume design, art direction and the like. This is why? We are now pushing backwards based on the results. Of course, we can say a lot of Zhuge Liang's "excellent opinions" afterwards, but it is not kind and meaningless to do so. But what is certain is that Disney bleached the style of the original drama for its own family carnival signature, smoothed out the edges and corners of a sharp story, and finally put on a princess dress after most of the gray face, and ushered in a Hollywood ending. .
Of course, even if it cannot be established in the history of film, it does not prevent "Magic Black Forest" from becoming a very ornamental movie. The exquisite costumes and unique aesthetic style still make this movie very individual. As a musical, the highlight of the film is, of course, the songs throughout. Most of the songs in the film come from the stage play, and the musical author Stephen Sondheim also participated in the adaptation.
Sondheim is the originator of the "concept musical". His representative work is "Sweeney Todd", which can be called the "Wagner" of the musical theater. And "Magic Black Forest" also has a record of defeating "The Phantom of the Opera" at the Tony Award, the highest award for stage play.
Whether this movie can be passed down to the world is unknown, but it seems that it is not fun to synthesize the sweet "Cinderella".
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