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QuickTidal, on 02 January 2025 - 07:44 PM, said:
amphibian, on 30 December 2024 - 05:39 PM, said:
Vengeance, on 27 November 2024 - 05:12 AM, said:
I took my daughter and her friend to see wicked. They enjoyed. 2 hours and 40 minutes. They could have cut an hour and had a tighter film.
I actually don't think cutting things for this specific movie would have worked well enough. The point of Wicked is to make Elphaba AND Glinda characters that people in the audience connect to and want to see the story of. On stage, Elphaba kinda gets there by being a righteously angry lady and Glinda gets there by being magic Barbie who does interesting things. The books have much deeper character work, but they're books.
In the movie, I think there's actually 3-5 min that were cut that should have been in there - Elphaba and Glinda going to Oz on the train (connection between them as true friends rather than frenemies), maybe some of Elphaba and Fiyero interaction to show how she falls in love with him.
I think there's going to be at least 4 Oscars for this movie. Best Song, best costume, best adapted screenplay, and best supporting for Ariana Grande. I think Cynthia Erivo will get best Oscar for Part 2.
It's a pretty damn good musical.
I agree with Amph, and I juts watched and was blown away by how great it was..and how fast 2hrs40min went by. I was pleased by how much attention they paid to everything, and not just musical plot points, but book ones too. And the finale scene (Defying Gravity) for Part 1 felt like Endgame for how thrilling it was.
Just an incredible film top to bottom. I agree with the Oscar talk too, they all very much deserve the nods, and I'd add production design as well as it was stunning in every shot and scene. Attention to detail on par with Peter Jackson's LOTR.
100%
Only thing I’ll add is I was highly skeptical of Ariana Grande as Glenda and she was Phu-nominal.
Can’t wait for the next one.
