Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
#1Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:05pm
Does anyone find it funny that Julie Taymor directed one of the largest grossing show, the lion king, and one of the largest flopping shows, spider man. Also does anyone thing Diane Paulus and Taymor look a like?
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#2Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:10pmShe is a great visual storyteller. One story was clearly defined before her involvement, and the other was not. Nothing funny, really. I rather more people try to create art and fail hugely than not.
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#2Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:13pmTaymor didn't direct all of Spider-Man though, only for 1.0. Additional directing for 2.0 was done by someone else (Forgot his name). But I have had that thought myself. Directors have their good and bad shows.
#3Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:27pmSpiderman 2.0 is essentially Taymor's 1.0 fleshed out a bit, and the mythology downsized. They didn't create something new, just cobbled her vision into something approaching a cohesive story. I saw both.
#4Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:40pmI totally disagree; Spider-Man 1.0 was a feverdream wrapped in a bad trip wrapped in a circus. 2.0 used most of her most expensive images, but was a pretty standard theme park show.
#5Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/23/15 at 11:59pm
"Also does anyone think Diane Paulus and Julie Taymor look-a-like?"
I don't think so.
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#6Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:01am
Well, she's done plenty besides those two credits you list. I don't find it very funny.
I had the pleasure of interviewing her once. She's brilliant to talk to.
#7Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:03am
"I totally disagree; Spider-Man 1.0 was a feverdream wrapped in a bad trip wrapped in a circus. 2.0 used most of her most expensive images, but was a pretty standard theme park show."
I still don't think they changed much there, just removed the crazy stuff, a lot of the arachne stuff, fired the geeks, and toned it up. Like, Act I used to end with the fight over the audience, so they made that the finale, etc., I saw very little in the final version that wasn't floating around lost in the original.
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#8Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:57amBoner and The Urge stabbed her in the back. They deserve every bit of bad karma their stupid new Apple album and somebody's ridiculous Hassidic bike accident has delivered to them.
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#9Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 4:24amWow, that was really uncalled for. I take it you didn't care for the score but that was a pretty nasty swipe at a tremendous humanitarian who endured a horrible accient.
#10Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:24pm
She has hits and flops just like anyone else. Spider-Man 1.0 was a mess but I applaud her for going out on a limb and taking a risk with the story she was trying to tell. Yes the risk failed but like haterobics said, I'd rather people took risks and failed than to have people not take any risks at all. Even though being raked over the coals by the press, the theater community and her own collaborators was a harsh price for failure.
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#11Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:27pm
"He had it coming. He had it coming. He only had himself to blame."
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#12Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 11:29pmwait a second, can someone correct me if I'm wrong? They had 7 MONTHS of previews? I was actually only a freshman in high school when that show started previews, and didn't follow Broadway as much then. Julie Taymor got fired during previews is that right? And then they drastically changed the show after she left?
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#13Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/24/15 at 11:33pmI think it was 7 from first preview to opening, BUT they took a month off in the middle when Taymor was fired. So, 6 months of previews, really.
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#14Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/25/15 at 1:49am
The choices at this point in her career are what make the difference.
She might have wanted to take on the Spider-Man challenge, but it would be naive to think she didn't know it had to work commercially and that everyone was ging to be on her case. A very different monster than The Lion King.
Her artistry works best when she can have control of the project as a whole. If there are outside sources trying to put their two cents in her work, then she's not the right choice for the project.
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#15Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/26/15 at 12:45amYou people need to read "The Song of Spider-Man" written by the playwright hired personally by Julie to help revamp the show after she fired the first writer. Amazing story and great insight on the making of Spiderman. It's really a shame the musical ended so poorly. Maybe she didn't have the best way to carry it out, but it seems like the vision Julie had for the show was incredible.
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#16Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/26/15 at 12:58am
How about Bono and The Edge secretly working on PLAN B behind their collaborator Julie Taymor's back?
Dbaggery and it's Dbaggiest.
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#17Julie Taymor
Posted: 1/26/15 at 1:02am
"the vision Julie had for the show was incredible."
But it's sort of irrelevant if you can't execute your vision...
