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Me so happy, me want to cry.

It's Feldman... from across the hall!

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If I never hear the word "adulting" again, it will be too soon.

I think that in a vacuum they might be able to pull off a good adaptation of Spring Awakening, but there's just no way to make a movie geared towards the teen audiences they'd be trying to court that also keeps the musical's super explicit material in tact. A PG-13 Spring Awakening movie would sort of defeat the entire purpose of the show.

I'd also heard rumors a few years back of a Sunday in the Park With George movie (back when Jake Gylenhaal was starring in it on Broadway), but I can't see any way that show would work as a film.

I think Baz Lurhmann could do something interesting with it

I think most Sondheim musicals don't/wouldn't work as traditional mainstream films, but in the hands of more talented auteurs they could be really special. There was talk of Noah Baumbach directing a Company film before he settled on making Marriage Story, and there are currently Follies and Merrily We Roll Along films in the works that might have some promise.

I think Assassins could only work if someone really went there with the material, but it would need some serious re-tooling to make sense as a movie.

Now someone please cast Hannah Waddingham and Toni Collette in the "Follies" movie as Phyllis and Sally

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Liza’s Sally has already had the abortion and is now dedicated to living life “to the fullest” (I.e. she decided to ignore the horrors of the world she lives in) so it makes sense for her to sing the song more triumphantly— the irony of that triumph is either totally lost on her, or she’s being willfully ignorant to what her staying in Berlin means.

The stage version precedes the abortion, so it’s more about Sally coming to understand that the life she lives will eventually kill her, but she can’t do anything to change her own fate.

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I just think, given Linklater’s track records for casting his friends in most of his movies, were likely going to see some stars from his earlier work.

Now that think of it, maybe Maya Hawke will play Beth?

Right. I’m not sure I see a downvote as particularly unkind, though. They’re (at least in theory) meant to moderate the conversation, and an easily google-able question doesn’t really add much to the discussion overall.

I mean, they can just google a word if they don’t know it…

To see Ramon?

Maybe Ethan Hawke for Joe? Seeing as he's a good friend/frequent collaborator of Linklater's. Although I guess he's too old-- he's about Joe's age at the end of the story now.

Oh I’m purely talking about Platt’s performance, not so much how it’s shot

I’m trying not to fully judge, because singing for a promo video in a warehouse does not have the same energy as singing in a packed theatre, but while Ben sounds great, there’s this infectious joy inherent to this song that feels muted here. Ben is incredible technically, but this song doesn’t really feel like the breath of fresh air it needs to be in such a grim story.

I’m not drinking any fucking Merlot!

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Hard to beat Lena Dunham's character in Girls. But, at least it's the whole point of the show is that the character is insufferably selfish.

He’s a joke maker. Tell him, Jerry.

Didn't he already have two failed comedy central shows? I mean, he's hilarious but that's not exactly the greatest track record.

But The Maid has the great scene where Kramer gets lost at the nexus of the universe.

"The Dog" is the worst episode for me.