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Discuss: What Movie Would Make the Worst Musical?
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Let's face it -- whether we like it or not, almost every beloved film from our past is going to get, at the very least, an attempt to morph it into a musical, whether that be on stage or screen. Heathers. Footloose. Hairspray. Evil Dead. The Breakfast Club. Legally Blonde. Bubble Boy. (Hit the jump for a clip of Pushpop singing "It's an elk." No joke.) Practically every film seems to be on its way towards song and dance; if there's at least a small handful of fans who love a film, the spotlight will inevitably find it. It can be horror, comedy, or hell, even drama since we've now got a musical for The Color Purple. No genre is safe.And the latest in this musical rush -- Groundhog Day. MTV talked with Harold Ramis recently, and he said the gossip surrounding a possible musical remake is true, and "Danny Rubin, who wrote the original script, has been working on a book for a musical." It's an idea that even Stephen Sondheim seems to have liked (according to Ramis), so who are we to judge? Although it might get annoying if they have to sing the same song every time the clock sets back...
I've ranted about musical remakes before, but I wanted to change things up this time. We can't stop them -- Hollywood loves them too much. In fact, I'm now of the mind that no matter what wild idea we can come up with, it's already been schemed up somewhere, or someone will get to it quite soon. But it can still be fun to muse.
Can you imagine Indiana Jones flicking his whip whilst singing and dancing? Chariots of Fire running right down the theater aisle and onto stage? The House of Yes channeling the Kennedys in song? A Clerksian talk about oral sex set to music?
What's the most ridiculous movie you can think of for the musical treatment?
Discuss: Musicals ... When is Enough, Enough?
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In 2003, I trudged to my local neighborhood theater and watched Evil Dead: The Musical. And then I watched it again. It was unique, crazy, fun, and pretty much perfect. Still, I never thought it would ever go beyond the walls of small Annex theaters in Toronto -- until it went to Montreal for Just for Laughs, and then New York City, and now, even a production in Seoul. I loved it for being unique, different, and from the hands of people only a few friends removed. But I never dreamed what would come in its wake.These days, everything is becoming a musical. It's super-hot -- we've got horror musicals, musicals based on shows/films based on musicals, you name it. It's the unfortunate, money-grubbing result of popularity. Once a few are popular, many will follow, trying to capitalize on the same success until we are drowned in a sea of unoriginality, desperately trying not to suffocate under the weight of copycats. Quickly, what made the breakthrough so special is tarnished, and what was cool quickly becomes the most uncool.
I desperately wish it would happen to musical remakes already. Must everything be made into a musical? Just because a certain cult horror film was surprisingly made into an uber-excellent musical does not mean that every movie can, or should, have the same fate.
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