I'm actually excited for Anna Kendrick -- I think she'll do a different Cinderella than the classic one, but the only way this is going to work is if everyone puts their own stamp on the character that's a little bit different.
I grew up on the Lesley Ann Warren version too, but I'm really glad the Brandy version exists! And I just think it would be amazingly meta for Cinderella from the R&H to grow up into the Cinderella from Into the Woods.
I made an embarrassingly girly noise when I first saw a photo of the princes in costume - I didn't even know I wanted that but it's perfect.
My big concern is that a film version with very literal fairy-tale costumes and expensive sets won't have the same ability as a stage musical to play with audience expectations and story and comment on narrative manipulation (especially if there isn't a narrator!!). I've seen a few stage versions and they often use shabby costumes, and one even had the narrator as a literal puppet master. Films get the luxury of sets and close ups, but that often makes them just too literal for imaginative musicals. I'm worried it will just look silly.
Also WHY Johnny Depp WHY. Keep him away from Sondheim again, please!
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I grew up on the Lesley Ann Warren version too, but I'm really glad the Brandy version exists! And I just think it would be amazingly meta for Cinderella from the R&H to grow up into the Cinderella from Into the Woods.
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A lot of the costumes do look nice. Can Johnny Depp sing decently? I know he was in Sweeney Todd, but I never got around to watching it.
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Johnny Depp can . . . sort of sing? Kind of? Um.
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My big concern is that a film version with very literal fairy-tale costumes and expensive sets won't have the same ability as a stage musical to play with audience expectations and story and comment on narrative manipulation (especially if there isn't a narrator!!). I've seen a few stage versions and they often use shabby costumes, and one even had the narrator as a literal puppet master. Films get the luxury of sets and close ups, but that often makes them just too literal for imaginative musicals. I'm worried it will just look silly.
Also WHY Johnny Depp WHY. Keep him away from Sondheim again, please!
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