Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title
Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title
While "Wicked" is the first of a two-part adaptation, Universal decided to downplay the Part One nature of the film in its marketing.
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Oh lord. This did not need to be a two parter. Man, I miss movies being well contained 90 minute stories.
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Just saw part one. As I had suspected, they would’ve been hard pressed to get both acts into one film.
A Broadway show can get away with a lot more compression. There are no establishing shots on a stage. And Wicked, as a musical, moves. The movie didn’t overstay its welcome, it didn’t waste much time. But it still easily filled its runtime.
Making the two acts into two films was a good call. Though I suspect the second film won’t be as good as the first, since I’ve always preferred act 1 of the Broadway show.
It’s really clear to me that the cast and crew weren’t lying when they said they love the musical and wanted to do right by it.
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The whole Broadway show can be done in a 2 hour-ish performance live, there is no justification to stretch this to two movies other than corporate greed milking every IP to the limit
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I don't know, I thought the Broadway show was missing an interspecies love triangle.
And maybe a long scene with barrels.
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Why does it hurt so much?!
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Because it was Reeeeeel!
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I want more flying monkeys. I must know their origin!
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Lolol, best comment ^^
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From everything I've seen so far about Wicked the movie(s), yes that's exactly what it is.
The show is still touring folks, go see the show if you can
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Unless its a planned trilogy with 3 strong stories that could semi-standalone (short of context being lost without the other installments) then any movie that needs more than 2 hours should just be a mini series. You wanna tell a 4 hour long story about the Wizard of Oz? Fine, stick it on Netflix and anyone who wants to binge watch it can to make it “feel like a movie” and those who don’t will have 4 - hour long episodes.
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They wouldn't make 4 episodes, they'd make 8 and half of them would be filler episodes.
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The finale would leave loose ends as long as the cables they’re frayed from, and season 2 will either be canceled or cut short so huge compromises will have to be made and nothing is properly resolved
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I'm starting to suspect that this is why I don't watch as many films as I'd like to. They've all become such a time commitment. Show me what you can do with an hour and a half!
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There are still plenty of those. My word the histrionics from some corners around this film are absurd.
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