Genetic! Opera!
Feb. 21st, 2009 06:15 pmFile this one under "movies that I totally expected to hate, but ended up falling in love with."
So like, here's how I spent my Saturday. I was dragged to a movie that was described to me as "a rock opera directed by that guy who did the Saw movies," and I was like, holy crap, why the heck would I want to see anything directed by the guy who did the Saw movies, let alone a rock opera?! I HATE the Saw movies and pretty much everything that they stand for.
But I went because, you know, trying to be social.
And here's what I totally wasn't prepared for: I had no idea that I was about to sit through a two-hour movie that starred Alexa Vega as a disabled but rebellious waif, Anthony Stewart Head as a singing serial killer, Sarah Brightman as a cyborg fairy godmother, Paris Hilton as a spoiled drug-addicted heiress, Bill Moseley as a necrophile with anger management issues, and Paul Sorvino as the chilling villain pulling all of their strings. And man, does Paul Sorvino have some pipes. So too, for the record, does Paris Hilton.
Even better? The guy who wrote the screenplay and composed the music Vyasa'd himself into the movie as the trickster narrator-type character.
In short: Repo! The Genetic Opera took me by surprise in terms of how darn GOOD it was, on so many levels. Its own official website describes it as "Wagnerian" in terms of story and structure, and that's not just the movie's own self-hype talking, it's also completely and honestly true. ( Read more... )
Edited to add: Hey, opera nerds! This (official?) youtube channel has lots of behind-the-scenes videos, dripping with musical, composition, and recording technology nerdiness.
So like, here's how I spent my Saturday. I was dragged to a movie that was described to me as "a rock opera directed by that guy who did the Saw movies," and I was like, holy crap, why the heck would I want to see anything directed by the guy who did the Saw movies, let alone a rock opera?! I HATE the Saw movies and pretty much everything that they stand for.
But I went because, you know, trying to be social.
And here's what I totally wasn't prepared for: I had no idea that I was about to sit through a two-hour movie that starred Alexa Vega as a disabled but rebellious waif, Anthony Stewart Head as a singing serial killer, Sarah Brightman as a cyborg fairy godmother, Paris Hilton as a spoiled drug-addicted heiress, Bill Moseley as a necrophile with anger management issues, and Paul Sorvino as the chilling villain pulling all of their strings. And man, does Paul Sorvino have some pipes. So too, for the record, does Paris Hilton.
Even better? The guy who wrote the screenplay and composed the music Vyasa'd himself into the movie as the trickster narrator-type character.
In short: Repo! The Genetic Opera took me by surprise in terms of how darn GOOD it was, on so many levels. Its own official website describes it as "Wagnerian" in terms of story and structure, and that's not just the movie's own self-hype talking, it's also completely and honestly true. ( Read more... )
Edited to add: Hey, opera nerds! This (official?) youtube channel has lots of behind-the-scenes videos, dripping with musical, composition, and recording technology nerdiness.
