In Which I Fulfill the Purpose of the Internet: Spouting off on Stuff I'm Barely Familiar With!

[forsyth]

Apparently, there is a movie version of Rent out. IMDB agrees.

However, I knew this only because the soundtracks is on sale at work. And was supposed to be in-store play this month, but apparently the big-shots decided it was too racy or something for playing in the stores. Or maybe people complained. I don't know. Makes me wonder if they even bother having anybody listen to it first, though. However, we played it once before we found this tidbit of information out. And from listening to it that time, I have to say that Rent sounds like fanfic about a romanticized view of the life of poor artists and singers and such in New York. And, apparently, almost everybody has AIDS. Which isn't to say it's bad or anything, I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds like the kind of wanktastic "literary" novels that critics love.

Or maybe I'm just bitter since when I was young and poor and a wannabe writer, my life wasn't romantic or anything. Could be either.

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Comments

[frustratedpilot]

All my knowledge about Rent comes from a PBS show about Broadway musicals that aired last year. Anyway, it was one of these things that the story of the show's making behind the scenes was more interesting than the concept of the show itself. The writer had been working as a diner cook/waiter, and Rent was his big break--and he died from cancer at about the time of the show's premiere. The ultimate case of "the Show Must Go On".

Filmed versions of Broadway plays rarely become successful. For every Chicago there's a Godspell, and for every The Sound of Music there's A Chorus Line. Unless the movie has something audiences really want, I think the odds are stacked against Rent: The Movie.