I haven't watched Nine yet, (it comes out in Aus on Thursday), but listening to the truncated Cabaret soundtrack, I have thought of this depressingly pathetic image of Rob Marshall and NINE:
* He thought the truncation of the NINE score would have the same effect as Cabaret.
* He thought NINE would sweep oscars and succeed Chicago , and see himself as a modern Bob Fosse
-[The claims about ripping off ALL THAT JAZZ might show he was definitely inspired]
But it and his dreams failed dismally - and I wonder if he'll ever direct a musical again.
I don't know, I just feel sorry for him - he must be so disappointed.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Disappointed, sure. But he's probably already on to a half a dozen other projects and isn't too concerned at all.
I don't feel bad for people that get paid the way we pay actors and directors and the like. Would they make more if it were successful? Yup....but the money is still flowing with a flop.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Everybody goes into every project hoping it will be better than their last. And the movie business is such a collaborative machine with so many cooks in the kitchen it's hard to know exactly why Nine didn't work as well as it should have. Rob is a talented filmmaker and believe me, Nine wasn't such a failure that he won't work again. (it was nominated for a Golden Globe) I wouldn't worry about Rob Marshall's future. He will do just fine.
Yep, he's got Pirates of the Caribbean 6 to direct! Let's see if he ever gets money to direct anything else.
He's only directed on other movie besides Chicago and Nine (and it was another clunker), so I wouldn't be too optimistic that Rob Marshall and his big bag of hubris are going to be trailblazers of the American cinema any time soon.
He is rich, why would you feel sorry for him? He actually should give anyone that pay to see Nine the money back, and even after that, he'd still be rich.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
"* He thought the truncation of the NINE score would have the same effect as Cabaret."
For me, it did have the same effect--In both, there were so few songs that to wonder why they were really musicals, more so with Cabaret. I much prefer the stage version.
I loved Chicago till he remade it as Nine, liked Annie and think that saying you enjoyed Geisha for what it was is a nice way of saying that even you admit it wasn't very good. I also think he should learn about wide shots.
Compared to the book Geisha was just ok. But I do agree.. he should learn about wide shots... and I think his casting choices ( or what has been forced on him) have been mixed. But I don't get the bashing. These musicals are hard to make and there are not to many directors interested.
I never really believed there'd be a Follies movie anyway. But I didn't start forcasting the death of the movie musical just because Nine flopped.
I don't think anyone has been more negative than best12bars who has fretted about what Rob Marshall and Nine will do to movie musicals in perpetuity since the damn movie opened. And he LIKED Nine! I guess that's his justification? I don't know what Dame's is. But whatevs. Who am I to tell someone to lighten up?
I liked Phantom of the Opera a lot, but I don't pretend it was some sort of artfully made movie by any means. THAT's a movie I'd say I like for what it was!
I never said the 'films' were similar, I mean in terms of him thinking the success of NINE being similar to Cabaret.
But I did make a stronger claim, that I realise that has *no* basis, that Marshall had no reservations cutting the score significantly or using Bob Fosse-inspired choreography because CABARET was a precedent for success.
I'm half-trolling anyway, so I'm not going to defend myself to the grave :P. Basically, I just think it's depressingly funny/pathetic how well Marshall probably thought NINE would go, and how it actually 'went'.
Oh and DAMES, up until that point (as mentioned) I don't think anyone has wished 'ill' on his career at all, just making observations and predictions. I'm not sure why some of you over-read things.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Directors LOVE to try different genres -showcases's their versitility their multi faceted talents and abilities. They get to show off- period. After Chicago's success a lot of both A and B lister directors (Rodrigues for one) expressed interest in adding the genre to the knotches on their viewfinder.
IN The Heights is coming and it will break the jinx.