Best flatmate bonding experience ever

[tenlittlebullets]

DRUNKEN DISNEY WATCHALONGS.

Specifically, boozy watchalongs of Disney movies that some or all of us were too old to see when they came out.

Okay, we were a bit tipsy for Mulan, but mmebahorel was still cogent enough to flail about how awesome it would be on stage, and I was still able to restrain myself from singing along.

But for Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Man, we were completely toasted. So, given the company involved, it was a straight two hours of "THIS IS WAY TOO KINKY TO BE A KIDS' MOVIE" and "It would actually be amazing as a loose adaptation if they weren't trying so hard to make it a kids' movie" and "How would you even explain this plot to a six-year-old?" and... okay, it was mostly "hnnngh HNNNNGH THE ART DIRECTION." Because really, how gorgeous is that movie?! Hnnnnnnngh.

(Also watched this weekend: State of Play, aka terrible people being entertainingly terrible to each other, aka another reminder that just as there is only one cop in all of 1820s France, there are only a few dozen actors in all of Great Britain. (There is probably a BBC Six Degrees game, but who would you even start with? The web is so tangled that it'd probably be more entertaining to go "Name any two actors and see what their degree of separation is" rather than singling out just one Kevin Bacon figure.) It was excellent, I gobbled down all six hours of it over the course of last night and this afternoon, and it is definitely the kind of thing I'd want to watch again--yes, partly to keep an eye on people's reactions in the light of what they actually know and what their motivations are, but also to home in on the subtle interpersonal stuff once you're no longer occupied with following the broad outlines of the plot.)

Comments

[makioka]

I <3 Mulan. You may appreciate this link http://twelve-jammy-badgers.tumblr.com/post/19035570033/am-i-gay-a-journey-of-self-discovery-with-shang

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it before, but Mulan would actually be a really cool musical. I'd love to see the martial arts (and MA-inspired dancing?) live instead of animated. And Hunchback is probably my favorite Disney film, for the score ("Hellfire" = best villain song but WAY not appropriate for kids).

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

There's some places where some really great movement based choreography would be gorgeous, the issues with the avalanche could be fixed for more coherent dramatic purposes, and you could easily cast it out of everyone who has ever been in Miss Saigon. Since all the characters are human except Mushu, it's actually easier to stage than everything else they've tried to make into a stage musical, and the are multiple ways you could do Mushu - either as a full-sized actor or as some sort of puppetry.

(yes, I'm a musical theatre nerd. But it seems a much easier adaptation than Tarzan, which I admittedly haven't seen but required human actors to play gorillas.)

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Good point about the mostly-human dramatis personae! (Besides the avalanche, there's also the scene in the Emperor's palace, but I'm sure that could also be figured out.) Also, such a production would just be gorgeous to look at.

(totally a musical theatre nerd as well)

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

I don't think you would even need to have Mushu be a dragon . . . he could be one of her anscestors or a spirit of some kind, although I guess they'd want to keep him a dragons for the kids.

[ladybranwen.livejournal.com]

If they could do an avalanche in 7 Brides... :)

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

That's what I said! :)

[silentseanymph.livejournal.com]

Ohmygodyes to EVERYTHING you said about HOND! Watching it as an adult, I am flabbergasted that it got a G-rating. I mean, Disney only just had their first onscreen death of a human character the previous year, in Pocahontas, and then Quasi's mom snuffs it in the first five minutes of this one! And "Hellfire"...whoa.

Not that I'm complaining about any of this. It's one of my favorite Disney movies, and definitely one that I appreciate a whole lot more now than I did as a kid.