{"id":604197,"date":"2024-01-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-lively-musical-remake-with-something-to-say\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:00:00","slug":"watch-a-lively-musical-remake-with-something-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-lively-musical-remake-with-something-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Lively Musical Remake With Something to Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29bb7534790\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29bb7534790\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-lively-musical-remake-with-something-to-say\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Lively_Musical_Remake_With_Something_to_Say%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Lively Musical Remake With Something to Say&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-lively-musical-remake-with-something-to-say\/#%E2%80%9CA_Lively_Musical_Remake_With_Something_to_Say%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Lively Musical Remake With Something to Say&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Lively_Musical_Remake_With_Something_to_Say%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Lively Musical Remake With Something to Say&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Lively_Musical_Remake_With_Something_to_Say%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Lively Musical Remake With Something to Say&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Not every movie \u2014 indeed, almost no movie \u2014 was meant to be turned into a musical. But the trend of doing so has become more common over the last two decades, and when you see a movie-to-musical transformation that really works, a surprising alchemy occurs. It can feel as if that story was always made to be told through song and dance; when you think back on the non-musical version, it can now seem like it\u2019s missing something. That\u2019s the sensation I\u2019ve had at <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>-turned-Broadway-musicals like \u201cHairspray,\u201d \u201cSchool of Rock\u201d (built around Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s greatest score in decades), and even \u201cBack to the Future\u201d (a musical I was recently dragged to kicking and screaming, and I wound up loving it).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The same dynamic works, in a clever if less spectacular way, in \u201cMean Girls,\u201d the movie adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical version of the classic 2004 screen comedy. Will the new movie replace the original film in anyone\u2019s affections? That might depend on how old you are. (For some, the 2004 version will always be sacred; for others, it\u2019s their mom\u2019s \u201cMean Girls.\u201d) I\u2019ll just say that after you\u2019ve seen the pop singer Ren\u00e9e R<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>, as the head mean girl Regina (Rapp also played the role on stage), make her grand entrance in a black vinyl bodysuit, singing <em>\u201cMy name is Regina George, and I am a massive deal\u2026,\u201d<\/em> as if she were Anita Ekberg crossed with Mata Hari, the scene carries a jolt, and you may wonder for a moment how Rachel McAdams, in the original film, made the impact she did <em>without<\/em> that song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    I\u2019m not suggesting that this version is better. Both were written by Tina Fey, who also produced the new movie (along with Lorne Michaels). So you can rest assured that \u201cMean Girls,\u201d the movie musical, sticks close to the spirit and to the letter of the movie that updated and mythologized the culture of gossip and backstabbing for a new generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The new movie nudges the material into our own era in a handful of ways. The clothes worn by Regina and her clique \u2014 the babbly insecure Gretchen (Bebe Wood), the dim bulb Karen (Avantika), who practically glows in her idiotic innocence \u2014 have a busy postmodern trash chic that makes the miniskirt-and-high-heels look of the original trio look like something from a lost century. The film is laced with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-media montages, there are cameos by Megan Thee Stallion and a certain star I won\u2019t reveal (she plays the Mathletes judge), and there are up-to-the-minute jokes like \u201cIf you don\u2019t dress slutty, that is slut-shaming <em>us!\u201d<\/em> Damian, the florid bohemian outlier who\u2019s regularly mocked as being \u201ctoo gay to function\u201d (a gag that now risks sounding as dated as those heels), is played by Jacquel Spivey with a knowing verve that smashes any hint of condescension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet the most contempo aspect of the new \u201cMean Girls\u201d is a quality that one may have mixed feelings about. The film was originally made for streaming (it was set to premiere on Paramount+), but the studio made what I think will prove to be the very smart decision to turn it into a theatrical feature. (Was that decision influenced by the blockbuster success of \u201cBarbie\u201d? I would bet it was. For this is a movie that\u2019s every bit as much about pink and plastic.) \u201cMean Girls\u201d was directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. (it\u2019s their first feature), and working with the cinematographer Bill Kirstein, they\u2019ve staged the film in a gliding, almost frictionless style that often creates the illusion of one long shot doubling back on itself. This is the sort of thing that was once the province of wizards like Spielberg and De Palma; now it\u2019s the snaky lingua franca of music video. It makes the numbers pop (which sounds like a good thing, and is), but it also makes all of them pop in kind of the same way. There\u2019s a heightened-Disney-channel, made-for-streaming kinetic aesthetic to \u201cMean Girls.\u201d The film, ironically, might have been more electric if it were willing to be a little more stationary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The story, though, once again catches you up in the comic vision of a teen culture that\u2019s now a conspiracy of vindictive one-upmanship. There have always been mean girls, as well as mean-girl characters in movies, but the John Hughes \u201980s were dominated by mean boys (they usually wore letter sweaters), and it wasn\u2019t until \u201cHeathers,\u201d in 1988, that the mean girl stepped into the spotlight as her own sharp-tongued, razor-taloned icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It was Tina Fey\u2019s stroke of inspiration to take that evolution to the next level by suggesting that the \u201cmean girl,\u201d rather than just being the be-yotch who rules the high-school cafeteria, now had the potential to be\u2026all of us. Fey\u2019s heroine, Cady Meron, is a nice girl who grew up, home-schooled, in Kenya, and when she first arrives at North Shore High School she doesn\u2019t know bitchery or sarcasm from zebra s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es. (She\u2019s also a brilliant math student, which might be a sly comment on the U.S. public education system.) But she\u2019s lured into Regina\u2019s world, and even when she learns that Regina is a full-on treacherous sociopath, that, ironically, is the moment that Cady loses her own bearings. Her desire for revenge turns her into the very thing she thinks she hates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Angourie Rice, evoking the young Michelle Williams and the Sarah Michelle Gellar of \u201cBuffy,\u201d makes an ace innocent, drawing us in with her opening number (a new one written for the film), then telegraphing the mixed emotions with which she becomes friends with Regina, who likes to surround herself with beauty, as long as it doesn\u2019t compete with her. The scene where they all gather after school in Regina\u2019s designer bedroom is hilarious, and when Cady starts flirting in math class with Aaron (Christopher Briney), the dreamboat who\u2019s Regina\u2019s ex, we can see where that\u2019s heading. Ren\u00e9e Rapp, with her leonine anger and frowsy voluptuousness, plays Regina as if she were the central figure in \u201cThe Real Housewives of High School.\u201d It\u2019s a star-in-the-making performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The songs carry you through, with the cross-cutting fireworks of \u201cRevenge Party\u201d being a particular highlight. And the story still crackles, especially when it culminates in the revealing of the Burn Book, Regina\u2019s secret bible of viciousness \u2014 a plot twist that\u2019s like \u201cHarriet the Spy\u201d updated to the age of Instagram. As Janis, the pierced art punk (shamed by Regina in middle school for her sexuality) who tries to wrest Cady out of the inferno of popularity, Auli\u2019i Cravalho creates the film\u2019s most authentically gritty everygirl character; she sparks every moment she\u2019s in. Angourie Rice, when she has to turn mean, does it with searing conviction, though the way the transition happens is a bit jarring. At first we think: Is this really her? The answer is: No, it\u2019s not. She\u2019s pretending to be mean because that\u2019s what she thinks she\u2019s supposed to be. But the canniness of \u201cMean Girls\u201d \u2014 in 2004, and it\u2019s still there \u2014 is that the film understands that the meanness that can seem like it has taken over American teenage life is, at root, a <em>performance<\/em>. \u201cMean Girls\u201d says: To be mean is to be someone other than yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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