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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 6, 2016 6:29:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 6:33:29 GMT
Oh! What's the guarantee Griz will be played by Shirt Swinger? Personally I'd love to see Delta Goodrem take this.
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Post by Michael on May 6, 2016 6:36:24 GMT
Just... why?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 6, 2016 6:42:16 GMT
Article mentions someone called Suki Waterhouse. No idea who that is but our neighbours once had a cat called Suki. They were always calling it in at night.... "Suki..... Soooki.......Sooooooooookeeeeeeeeeee"
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 8:01:58 GMT
Our rather pretentious neighbours insisted on giving all their family pets human names, presumably to make them feel they were just like brothers and sisters to the real brothers and sisters. Anyway, one particular mangy tomcat they named Wayne. Now to make matters worse, they also insisted on putting the family surname after the first name. In this case it was Carr. Like Burly's neighbours, they too had a habit of calling the thing in at night: "Wayne Carr... Wayyne Caarrr... WAYYNE CARRRR!"
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 8:30:25 GMT
I always think you should give pets people names. I'd be far more embarrassed calling "Mittens!" or "Spot!" than any people names I can think of.
With regards to a Cats movie, can we just not? Would that be alright?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 8:34:29 GMT
I don't see the point in this. We already have the version that was filmed on the stage of the Adelphi in the 1990s, and as the show is almost completely plotless apart from the "dead cats go the ionosphere" thing I can't see how it could work as anything other than a sequence of acts presented on a stage. Unless they do it with real cats, which would be every kind of awesome.
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Post by distantcousin on May 6, 2016 8:37:07 GMT
Fabulous, but mind you, after seeing The Danish Girl recently, Tom Hooper's style is starting to disappoint me.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 9:00:30 GMT
Anyway, one particular mangy tomcat they named Wayne. Now to make matters worse, they also insisted on putting the family surname after the first name. In this case it was Carr. Like Burly's neighbours, they too had a habit of calling the thing in at night: "Wayne Carr... Wayyne Caarrr... WAYYNE CARRRR!" And the band played "Believe it if you Like" Good one, though. Our neighbours on the other side, the Hunts, were so irked by their pretentiousness, they reckoned they were going to copy them. I said, "You can't do that, Barry." "Why not?"Barry asked. Barry didn't half go red when I politely reminded him that he has christened his baby kitten Mike. Not a word of a lie...  |
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Post by anita on May 6, 2016 10:43:15 GMT
Article mentions someone called Suki Waterhouse. No idea who that is but our neighbours once had a cat called Suki. They were always calling it in at night.... "Suki..... Soooki.......Sooooooooookeeeeeeeeeee" I've never heard of her either. |
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Post by alece10 on May 6, 2016 10:57:25 GMT
Why cant they use real cats?
There are enough talented cats on youtube and I am sure I have seen videos of singing cats before
Personally I think Grumpy Cat should be Grizabella.
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Post by Dave25 on May 6, 2016 11:14:12 GMT
What??!!??!!
The Les Mis film was one big presentation of the fact that Tom Hooper does not understand the material, the artform and this way of storytelling.
And what can we expect from this? A cat sitting on a pavement, filmed in a 1 take close-up shot, speaking 4 words and vibrate for a minute on the 5th? Thinking " look at me, isn't is extra raw this way if I speak one word and vibrate on the next, don't I look like a good acting cat now"?
And there aren't any crying scenes at all in Cats to get away with that approach.
So, what the hell?
If they make it a triumph of the fantasy, what acting through song per definition is, green screens, pre-recorded music, glorious singing and dancing, they need the opposite of Tom Hooper.
And even if he learned something from the Les Mis travesy, and it will be a triumph of the fantasy somehow, with cgi cats singing for example, he is still too tempted to have hollywood-non-singers attempting "live speaking and vibrating on certain notes" to butcher the music.
But seriously, what is the point if the director does not understand that amazing singing can not be amazing acting?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 6, 2016 11:29:17 GMT
I knew Dave would be along shortly after any mention of Tom Hooper |
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Post by d'James on May 6, 2016 11:42:06 GMT
Which cat will get the inevitable new song to garner the Oscar nomination?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 12:05:00 GMT
And what can we expect from this? A cat sitting on a pavement, filmed in a 1 take close-up shot, speaking 4 words and vibrate for a minute on the 5th? Thinking " look at me, isn't is extra raw this way if I speak one word and vibrate on the next, don't I look like a good acting cat now"? Do you mean "vibrato"? I'm having quite the time visualising a vibrating cat, "vibrate" and "vibrato" are rather different things! |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2016 12:42:38 GMT
Cats... Moggies... Pussies... Call them what you will. We don't want them vibrated or otherwise by the said Tom Hooper. Agreed?
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Post by Jon on May 6, 2016 13:26:53 GMT
Maybe they'll use CG in the same way The Jungle Book did but TBH Cats is so theatrical, it would be tricky to pull it off without making look ridiculous
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Post by Hamilton Addict on May 6, 2016 14:40:55 GMT
Really hoping this is just a late April Fools prank.  |
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Post by anthony40 on May 6, 2016 16:14:13 GMT
I hear this on the radio this morning. I can only reiterate what Michael and The Matthew have already stated. Why? I appreciate Lloyd Webbers desire to have all his shows filmed however why not film Sunset instead? |
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Post by bjorne on May 6, 2016 16:18:21 GMT
I hope they'll use real cats.
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Post by Jon on May 6, 2016 16:22:43 GMT
I hear this on the radio this morning. I can only reiterate what Michael and The Matthew have already stated. Why? I appreciate Lloyd Webbers desire to have all his shows filmed however why not film Sunset instead? Sunset's issue is that the film rights are owned by Paramount Pictures so ALW has to go through them to get permission and they're not interested at the moment |
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Post by avenueqresident on May 6, 2016 17:09:24 GMT
Don't think this will work. It's such a stage centric piece, of which the choreography is essential to this medium. Would just get lost on the screen.
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Post by Dave25 on May 6, 2016 19:24:43 GMT
The whole language of telling a story through song is meant to be a triumph of the fantasy. Therefore a literal approach turns out silly (Les mis) because this artform is per definition not literal. So I think if they use a lot of green screens and create some kind of triumph of the fantasy (like fantasia) it could work, although I'm not sure how to do that with Cats yet, as it is just a compilation of separate scenes of cats presenting themselves.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 7, 2016 13:48:03 GMT
I hear this on the radio this morning. I can only reiterate what Michael and The Matthew have already stated. Why? I appreciate Lloyd Webbers desire to have all his shows filmed however why not film Sunset instead? Sunset's issue is that the film rights are owned by Paramount Pictures so ALW has to go through them to get permission and they're not interested at the moment I'm not suprised. Terrible score and lyrics |
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