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Post by Honoured Guest on Mar 20, 2017 22:37:36 GMT
When I saw this towards the end of last week, there were no technical problems which I noticed.
As for being "just a series of events", that's quite a common feature of autobiographies!
Personally, I found the story and its presentation quite exhilarating. In the theatre, I was focused mainly on the rapid-fire storytelling, but the form of the show became more significant when I reflected on it over the following days.
I think you'll probably enjoy this more if you love cinema in general, and especially if you saw the movies in the cinema as they were released. But that's not necessary, just an extra dimension of enhanced interest.
This show is an amazingly complex achievement but the main thing is the story it tells of Robert Evans, the kid who stays in the picture.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 22:56:18 GMT
When I saw this towards the end of last week, there were no technical problems which I noticed. As for being "just a series of events", that's quite a common feature of autobiographies! Personally, I found the story and its presentation quite exhilarating. In the theatre, I was focused mainly on the rapid-fire storytelling, but the form of the show became more significant when I reflected on it over the following days. I think you'll probably enjoy this more if you love cinema in general, and especially if you saw the movies in the cinema as they were released. But that's not necessary, just an extra dimension of enhanced interest. This show is an amazingly complex achievement but the main thing is the story it tells of Robert Evans, the kid who stays in the picture. Stayed for second half Much preferred it 3 stars
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Post by herculesmulligan on Mar 21, 2017 7:26:06 GMT
Do I need to know anything about this before seeing it or can I go in totally cold?
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Post by foxa on Mar 21, 2017 17:22:22 GMT
Hercules, I don't think you need to know a lot beforehand. I went with my daughter and she had seen 'The Godfather' and 'Love Story' but none of the other films. She still enjoyed it. (Her favourite section was the Chinatown bit, which isn't a film she knows.) There is a lot of stuff on the internet about him so you could read up a bit, but I don't think it's entirely necessary. Sorry to miss you, Parsley, but I was up in the Circle, so not the culprit who made you reach for your (imaginary) nose gay. (Thank goodness!)
Technically, even with the errors (and they were quite a few: the screen just went out a couple of times, you could see the teleprompter reflected in the screen sometimes), it was an amazing achievement. There were segments where they were mixing archive film footage, with live footage and overlaying with photographs which being filmed as they were being placed on surfaces. They also used films/photos as backdrops for the actors to achieve some great effects. And as I think Steve mentioned above, I don't know how they would have done this without Christian Camargo - he played the mid-career Evans impressively - even carried off Evans' trademark turtleneck. Though some of it/even much of it was mesmerising, there is no escaping that some sections were actors reading off teleprompters into microphones. If you are thinking of buying tickets, I would recommend the Circle - I feel sure some of the larger projections would look best from there and the acting wasn't of the sort you really need to see up close. The ending is haunting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:23:53 GMT
2* - Wos
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:24:50 GMT
5* - Indy
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:25:17 GMT
2* - The Stage
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:25:42 GMT
3* - GUArdian
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:27:09 GMT
4* - Da Times
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 0:28:34 GMT
3* Parsley Papers
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Post by Honoured Guest on Mar 24, 2017 10:55:48 GMT
And don't forget all those stars on the floor of the Bar and Kitchen.
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Post by dlevi on Mar 24, 2017 17:56:42 GMT
I thought it was one of the worst things ever...It feels as if McBureny was hired to use his bag of tricks in a project for which he had no feeling or passion. Ugh.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Apr 1, 2017 16:58:05 GMT
Really enjoyed this at today's matinee, I would agree pretty much with steve earlier.
One thing to clarify though, it is very obvious that the teleprompters are a feature and not a bug, the audience are meant to aee them (and the actors don't refer to them, except maybe the older Evans). It's a distancing device, to remind us we are watching a reconstruction, a version, a rehearsed story of a life.
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Post by Marwood on Apr 5, 2017 21:21:49 GMT
Saw it tonight, and after really not liking the first 10-15 minutes (not helped by seeing the reflection of the prompters on the glass screen at the back of the stage and a few moments of awful acting/line reading) I grew to really like this by the ending - I don't really know that much about Evans beyond some of the films he produced in the 70s and reading some of the press he did when his book came out but I'm glad I saw this ( shame they glossed over his involvement in Popeye though 😝) I'll be generous and say 4 stars.
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Post by bellboard27 on Apr 10, 2017 8:10:13 GMT
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Apr 10, 2017 10:35:26 GMT
What an utterly stupid and fact free discussion; they don't use the ''autocue', it's there because of the artifice of film that it mirrors and how what an audience watches isn't real, even if the story itself is real.
it just shows how boneheaded supposedly intelligent people often are, these particular culprits appear to have no understanding or recollection of contemporary European theatre, for example, and how the artifice of performance is exposed; taking Brecht into the digital age, as it were.
So, now that they have been performing for weeks do they believe that the actors still just don't know their lines? That it was some 'cheating' device because the production is devised and had late script changes? Why don't they just stop and think about what they have been told or are presuming?
The 'chattering classes' moniker seems entireky appropriate here, empty brains with airtime to fill.
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