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Me: ok but they should make a sequel to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
not to be that dumb theatre ho but, to this day it still upsets me to see the same general shallow commentary on hamilton being rehashed because of the cringey parts of its fandom.
of course hamilton isnt a perfect musical, but many people seem to forget about the part where a puerto rican man decided to reapropriate an inspiring american narrative he discovered in a biography and gave it to dozens and dozens of other PoC (many of whose careers immensely profited from the unusual spotlight) in a usually predominantly white scene, and in the process created over 2 hours of absolute bangers after bangers which overall form a satisfying and emotional story, all of that topped with great acting and a genuine love for the arts.
Can we please stop pretending that all Hamilton created was (mostly white, mostly teenaged) kids âstanningâ hideously racist old white dudes. Lin-Manuel gets tweets from POC saying âmy kid had the confidence to go for school production because they saw someone who looked like them in a leading role in Hamilton.â
Stop fucking pretending that Lin-Manuelâs legacy is cringey white kids âstanning my trash son Jefferson uwuâ you racist-ass motherfuckers. Hamilton fans are also POC that are so grateful and happy to see themselves on the stage, and love that A BROADWAY MUSICAL is so wonderfully and unapologetically not white.
As a longtime theatrical person (who is xerself white), I feel like Hamilton is, easily, the RENT of the 2010s.
RENT reinvented much of BroadwayâJon Larsonâs insistence on $20 âlotteryâ seats for the two front rows allowed broke college kids, low-income families, and budgeted-to-death folks to enjoy real live theatre for the first time (a concept other shows, including Hamilton, have adopted). This is also how the really classist âtheatre dressâ concept started to break downâyou could toss out one kid in jeans and a tee shirt, but what did you do when half the theatre was kids in jeans and tee shirts? RENT also drew attention to the then-contemporary and very large intersectional problem of poverty-meets-AIDS, and actually won awards for its sympathetic and complex portrayal of HIV/AIDS-positive folks.
We also saw a move away from the Hammerstein/Sondheim/Webber model following RENT; while all of these composers have their merits, RENT showed that a relative unknown, not from a rich or classically-trained background, could produce an amazing show not bound by classical music styles and leitmotifs. How much did this change things? Enough that Avenue Q and Wicked might have existed without RENT, but Hadestown, Great Comet Of 1812, and, yes, Hamilton, probably wouldnât have, at least not in such a way that we could all enjoy them. Imagine a world where Broadway was nothing but Disney, jukebox musicals, 1960s revivals, and Phantom of the Opera. Depressing, no?
What RENT did for broke-ass students, Hamilton did for actors of color: it challenged the concept, down to its very bones, that âurbanâ music styles canât be theatrical and generative (consider Hamiltonâs rap battles in Congress and the showtunes/R&B mashup that is Schuyler Sisters, for exampleâwill anybody argue that these arenât great theatrical moments that also show off genres usually associated with people of color?), and that people of color arenât âexpressive enoughâ or âdonât show well enough on stageâ to be cast in major, non-tokenized roles.
Further, it provided a rich wealth of quotes that ensure it a place in long-term theatrical canon; my favorite is âand when my time is up, have I done enough? Will they tell my story?â, but there are easily half a dozen more WHAM lines like that I can think of. That means that for a long, long, LONG time, the show that will define the latter half of the 2010s (if not the whole decade) in terms of Broadway theatre is a show in which every role except King George went to an actor of color, many if not most of them Blackâand not an Uncle Tom, magical negro, or Mammy among them. All justâŠ.PEOPLE, playing roles of dignity and humanity.
Like RENT in the 1990s, and HAIR in the 1970s, and Porgy and Bess in the 1930s where it all began, Hamilton rewrote a very basic tenet of theatre. History has its eyes on Hamilton, and the legacy it has created.
me: *breaks down crying in the privacy of my own home*
my brain: youâre faking your emotions for attention. youâre just doing this because you think it makes for a cool personal narrative
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Ok, so I stole this idea from The Mindy Project fandom. I wrote the first of  the #TURNhaikus and while itâs not great at allâŠitâs a start. I know the writers in our fandom alyssavonkirkbride and luckysilverbell could do better for sure.
But everyone: get on twitter and add your own #TURNhaikus. Make them serious, funny, whateverâŠjust make them!Â
Reblog to spread the wordâŠand then go make some #TURNhaikus.
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EDIT: to add a few more #TURNhaikus tweets
ABC's "Forever" is essentially Fox's "New Amsterdam"
From the first commercial for ABCâs new show âForeverâ I was struck by the incredible similarities between this show and Foxâs short lived âNew Amsterdam.â I watched the pilot for âForeverâ today. Letâs examine the similaritiesâŠ
- main character is a man whose lived for hundreds of years due to an inability to die.
- main character has endured many âdeathsâ in every way imaginable yet still survives.
- show is set in NYC and the main character has watched it change over the centuries and now works for/with the NYPD (NA - homicide detective) (F - medical examiner)
- Both received their immortality as a result of standing up for an oppressed/victimized person (NA - standing between an attacker and a young native american girl) (F - standing between an enslaved man and his captors on a slave ship to America)
- Both characters have an old man as a friend/confidant who actually ends up to be his son who has outgrown him. (I saw this coming from the second this character was introduced)
- Both have a wealth of knowledge about death from their extended lives and inability to die which they use to be experts at their jobs.
- Both had that one true love who they outlived and never got over. (mother of their son.)
- Both become involved with a woman through their work who they fall madly in love with and who teaches them to âtruly live again.â
- Both pilots revolved around a criminal and a NYC subway train, which sets off the chain of events that lead to the story unfolding in the show.
- main character is played by a good looking European man with a unique name (New Amsterdam - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) (Forever - Ioan Gruffudd)
Iâm sure the similarities do not end there. It seems to be a complete recycling of this show. I canât be the only person who has noticed the similarities! Has anyone else noticed any others?Â
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If you don't love British panel shows, I'm seriously judging your life choices.
So which Pride and Prejudice should you watch?
(Disclaimer: Theyâre all wonderful in their own way.)
BBC Mini Series from 1995:
Pros:
The most realistic of the options at hand
Gives you nearly six hours to give the story the time it deserves
Has the time to give you all of the characters without feeling rushed
The characters are adorable (or annoying depending on needs Mr. Collins), but they arenât godlike. Itâs great to see real people on screen
You actually get to see Lydia and Mr. Wickham hiding from their family which I donât see in any other adaptation?
More time is dedicated to Mr. Darcyâs point of view
Mrs. Bennet is perfect
Collin Firth (according to fandom)
Cons:
I personally have an issue with some the music even though its still admittedly good
It does take about six hours to get through, though you can take a break between each episode
If youâre looking for fluff, this is the least fluffy version of the lot
Probably has the most muted colors of the three, but itâs also from 1995 soâŠ
Pride and Prejudice 2005 (with Keira Knightley)
Pros:
Talk about a bi dream world
This is definitely the fluffy one
Probably the easiest one to sit down and watch all at once as it is a movie
Elizabeth walking across a field to meet Darcy where he proposes is such a dream sequence
It flows rather nicely as a story and certainly does the story justice for the time its given
Keira Knightley is a wonderful actress in my opinion
Cons
The music is rather repetitive, you could replace the soundtrack with one song and be close to the current one
Probably goes the least in depth of the three
Kitty and Mary donât get as much focus as they deserve
You donât get quite the sense that a bunch of time is passing
Feels much less real than the other two
Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Youtube)
Pros:
Definitely the easiest to watch if you only have a few minutes here and there
This is a thoroughly modern version, so keep that in mine
Stays loyal to the story while making it modern. Thereâs no question that this is Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte is fucking adorable
Lydia has an amazing character arc that fits in a more modern sense and is PERFECT
Georgiana is the cutest thing I have ever seen
Lizzie encompasses the young adult in this day and age
I think they all have Twitters which is really neat?
Fitzwilliam is a joy
Cons:
There are several characters you never get to meet like her mother and father, only second hand
It is very Lizzie centric (which I like), and thatâs obvious, but it means that you get more of her than you will than in any other adaptation and less of everyone else
Kitty does not exist
Mary does exist, but as a cousin rather than a sister (because most people donât have 5 kids in this day and age)
I honestly canât speak highly enough of any of these, especially the Lizzie Bennet Diaries which is just such a unique take on the series.
Okay, but I must complain about the blatant erasure ofÂ
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pros:
Every verbal fencing match becomes an actual fencing match - Elizabethâs tete-a-tete with Lady Catherine, her argument with Darcy over Wickham (they legit destroy her cousinâs house, and it is a delight).
Lily James (Elizabeth Bennett) is an absolute badass.
Wickham is a madman at the head of a literal zombie army. Spoilers: His âbig plotâ inexplicably involves pig brains and church???
Janeâs âsudden feverâ becomes a lot more tense and dramatic when she may have contracted the zombie virus.
Thereâs some very cool horse-riding.
Can we talk about the sword fighting one more time? When a standard version of Pride and Prejudice is played right, you can cut the barely repressed sexual tension with an appropriately-fancy butter knife. In this version, Darcy and Elizabethâs almost-kisses are repeatedly interrupted by zombie attacks that require them to engage in sweaty, intense martial arts dueling matches. If you donât know why this is better, you and I shouldnât discuss the same movies.
Mr. Collins is played by Matt Smith (otherwise known as the 11th Doctor) and thatâs about as hilarious as youâd expect it to be.
Zombies.
Cons:
Zombies (hey, some people just arenât fans; I get it; whatever).
The plot follows the book with aâŠreasonable degree of accuracy for about the first half; then devolves into something loosely resembling the fever dream of an acid-tripping madman. This may be a metaphor for the gradual loss of self caused by the onset of zombieism, but Iâm pretty sure itâs just bad storytelling.
No, seriously - the plot makes NO sense. Logic and continuity do not enter into a single characterâs calculations.
Darcy doesnât have quite the same appeal as, say, Darcy from the 2005 Keira Knightley version. Heâs sexy as hell when heâs swordfighting, but heâs missing some of the shrewd wit and aloof charm that Darcy should have.
There are a couple of sudden, shockingly gory jump scares (some people think thatâs fun, though, so hey, this might be a pro for you!).
Overall, this version of Pride and Prejudice is a tie for my favorite (the other being the 2005 Keira Knightley version, which I feel accurately âtranslatesâ the the book into the more visual format of film). Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an absolute disaster of a film that somehow manages to parade about so gloriously in its own absurdity that it becomes a work of genius brilliance.
 UPDATE AS I HAVE NOW SEEN
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Pros:
The musical numbers are A+++
They make a fucking reference to Jackson Pollock?
Will Darcy is fucking adorable, and so is Lalita Bakshi (Lizzie)
I like this difference in modern Pride and Prejudice. It feels like the different take is needed for Pride and Prejudice to made a truly modern story
Lalita has a a GREAT sense of when to tell someone off and I would love to talk with her
Some of the quotes are exactly the same and definitely maintains the integrity of the story while making it their own
Mr. Balrajâs (Bingleyâs) hair looks so soft
The discussion of green cards and what moving to America means to people
Lakhi (Lydia) though? Like okay then. (not sure if this is a pro or a con)
Get you a man that looks at you like Darcy looks at Lalita and the Grand Canyon
OH FUCK THE WICKHAM TWIST
I didnât expect a fight scene but okay then
Cons:
Mr. Kholi Saab (Mr. Collins) is just as cringe worthy as I feel he should be which makes it painful to watch
Also, his idea of the role of a woman makes me want to hurl
And Wickham is the perfect slimeball/frat boy
(These characterizations of accurate and important but also, ew)
Definitely should have been longer than an hour and fifty minutes
I spent half the movie figuring out why I recognized Mr. Wickham. Donât repeat my mistake. Heâs Elijah from the Vampire Diaries
This Darcy is better at flirting/talking/joking than he should be
Georgie has all the subtly of a teenager as she should but oh lord is it so obvious
You can see the moment she falls in love. Usually its more subtle. Itâs not bad, but it is different
THEY TOOK OUT FITZWILLIAM WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS I LOVE FITZWILLIAM THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO GET MOVIES THE PROPER TIME
What do you mean I donât get to see all of the proposals?
As I wrote this while watching it, I did my best to keep it in the same vein as the others which I wrote at least a few hours after watching. And since @dareyoutoread-blog did the Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies so well, I wonât be repeating it on my own.
And thank you @primarybufferpanel for telling me it exists!
Unleashing Mr. Darcy
Pros
A teacher that does dog shows⊠Thatâs a new hot take. So is an investment banker.
They keep the name Darcy, obviously, but thank goodness.
She cares about her students like any teacher
OH MY GOD THEIR SECOND MEETING IS REALLY FUNNY
Darcy is a walking call out post and I appreciate it (but also, ridiculous)
A+ Best friend
Jane also has more of a spine and I appreciate that (and she just murdered a bit)
Remembering to bring her mail was honestly such a real thing
(A+ difference on how to deal with no Wickam)
GO OFF I GUESS ELIZABETH SHIT (But Darcyâs âJust because those arenât on my list of problems doesnât mean my list is emptyâ is the best response Iâve heard to âMy problems are worseâ)
They have good banter
It is a very good modern version
ART DATES ARE GOOD
They still get a dance at a ball which is great
Darcy and so is Elizabeth is very accurate to the original character
Makes up well for the fact that Mr. Wickham doesnât exist and neither does Kitty in the end
Cons
Definitely had a love at first sight moment? Too obvious for a pride and prejudice story, in my opinion
Why is his sister a dope? I love Georgie. (Nvm)
The reason she loses her job is bullshit.
Moves very quickly (It is a hallmark movie, but still)
Not sure if itâs a con, but this is a very different pace compared to the others
His aunt is a proper bitch
It moves very quickly, but itâs not bad. Just short
The use of second hand embarrassment is unnecessary and makes me cringe (back to hallmark movie tropes, several times actually)
THAT IS NOT A SUBTLE WAY TO GIVE A GIRL YOUR NUMBER YOU FUCK
Bingley is cute but underdeveloped as a character
The sisters really donât exist much outside of Jane, and Mr. Bennet not at all
The villains arenât quite as cohesive as I like and play off the catty women trope too much (which is a major con on my part)
Also, first kiss is not well timed
Leaves out some of the big parts, but it is less than an hour and a half, so Iâm not surprised
Overall: Every inch of what youâd expect of a hallmark movie.
So who's going up do Austenland?
Reblog if youâre part of team âI want to talk to you but Iâm terrible at ooc communication and I think you find me annoying and I donât want to bother you.â
Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers | Battle of Helmâs Deep
My favorite scene in a film ever. Full stop.