Is opera kino now?
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2016/05/how_the_minnesota_opera_adapted_stephen_king_s_the_shining.html
Sounds like a great marriage of the film and the novel
>a few more pics from the article
"In stark contrast to the film, the opera focuses heavily on Jack’s fascination with a scrapbook that chronicles the hotel’s lurid, crime-ridden past, which he chances upon in the boiler room. Speaking by phone from Paris, novelist Diane Johnson, whom Kubrick hired to co-write the screenplay, recalled that Jack’s discovery of the scrapbook was filmed, but subsequently cut. “I thought it was an important scene,” she said. “There’s a point in the narrative where the hero does the wrong thing, and trouble ensues. In other words, he sells his soul for things to write about. He finds the scrapbook and agrees to its terms, as it were. He becomes the creature of the hotel from then on.”
While the production delivers on the “simulated nudity, gunshots, theatrical haze, and strobe effects” the placards throughout the lobby of the Ordway warned about, the most chilling moments are left to the imagination, particularly when characters are dwarfed by nature. When the Torrance family first arrives, overlapping images of the Rocky Mountains are projected onto a spectacular 70-by-32–foot scrim at the front of the stage. The scrim returns for the epilogue, faithful to King’s original ending, in which Wendy, Danny, and Dick recuperate at a lake in Maine. It’s odd how these moments of tranquility inspire a certain bloodlust in the viewer. The audience is anticipating destruction from the start, but must first venture through a series of scenic postcards. Danny peacefully fishing on a dock inspires thoughts of one final splash, one final freakout, but it never arrives.
>>69729524
Opera thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-S3X-eL9hM
Obviously production values and medium will effect the look of the two, but holy shit those pictures make it look painful. The arguably best part of The Shining is the beautiful direction and cinematography of the film. The visuals still remain unimpeachable a half century later.
I guess kudos for trying. But they missed the forest for the trees.
>>69730475
Turn this into an opera thread so I can post here when I come back home.
Is opera a meaningless meme now ?
>>69730641
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V715fwlaAfs
One less known opera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auuQGMurKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehC_IP2Px8
BTW, an interesting comparison between movie soundtracks and operas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbtw4smYCV4
is oprah kino
Some Britten for minimalists, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74UYLS4PVBU
King Roger again - I fucking love the first act:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ1vUwx6AI0
The best Murican opera, in my opinion ofc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F1N_VC4CeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGLhfZmSxI
it's very "movie-like", btw
>>69731235
The Oprah show was always the highest kino.
Animu Turandot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibWErgMa_w
>>69729524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdCtfFh9AkA
