Hamilton (2020)

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Movie
German title Hamilton
Original title Hamilton
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 160 minutes
Rod
Director Thomas Kail
script Lin-Manuel Miranda
production Thomas Kail,
Lin-Manuel Miranda,
Jeffrey Seller
music Lin-Manuel Miranda
camera Declan Quinn
cut Jonah Moran
occupation

Hamilton is a musical film directed by Thomas Kail that was released on Disney + in multiple countries on July 3, 2020 . The film is a recording of the Broadway production of the musical of the same name by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the eponymous Alexander Hamilton , one of the founding fathers of the United States . A special feature of the musical are influences of modern music, especially rap , hip-hop and R&B . The costumes and the set are historically inspired in the recorded production.

production

Recording and direction

The film is a recording of the Broadway production of the musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the eponymous Alexander Hamilton , one of the founding fathers of the United States. The recording was made over three days in June 2016 with the original cast in front of a live audience at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York. For this purpose, two performances were recorded with several cameras. In addition, 13 particularly important vocal performances were recorded between the shows with steadicams, crane and dolly cameras that could move between the actors and allow close-ups. Declan Quinn acted as cameraman .

Directed by Thomas Kail , the director of the stage version.

Cast and music

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton in the musical Hamilton in April 2016

In addition to Lin-Manuel Miranda in the title role of Alexander Hamilton, the respective Grammy and Tony Award winners Leslie Odom Jr. can be seen as Aaron Burr and Daveed Diggs in the double role of Thomas Jefferson / Marquis de Lafayette . Jonathan Groff took on the role of King George III , and Chris Jackson plays former US President George Washington . Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler Church , Anthony Ramos as John Laurens / Philip Hamilton, Jasmine Cephas Jones as Maria Reynolds / Peggy Schuyler and Phillipa Soo as Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton can also be seen in other roles .

The music numbers can be heard in the same order as in the musical .

publication

After a planned theatrical release in October 2021, it was announced in May 2020 that Hamilton would be released on July 3, 2020 in several countries on Disney + .

reception

The film has so far convinced 99 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 9.2 out of a possible 10 points.

Christian Eichler from the online magazine ze.tt writes in his review that it is immediately understandable why Hamilton has become such a phenomenon: “For two and a half hours there is singing and rapping at a brilliant pace, characters appear like the waves of the sea, are dated again Ensemble entwined, the wooden stage turns at breathtaking speed, each figure has its own will and its own grandiose musical motif. At some point these motifs overlap, a character sings two lines of his theme in a completely different song and we immediately know how he or she must be feeling right now. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/hamilton-review-disney-plus-1234570496/
  2. ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/hamilton-review-1301071
  3. ↑ Peter Travers: 'Hamilton' Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Live and in Your Living Room. Captured for posterity in 2016, this film of the original Broadway-cast production couldn't arrive at a better moment. In: Rolling Stone.
  4. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18530894.html
  6. ↑ Michael Paulson: 'Hamilton' Movie Will Stream on Disney Plus on July 3. In: The New York Times, May 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Hamilton. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  8. ↑ https://ze.tt/hamilton-auf-disney-warum-die-musical-sensation-umstritten-ist/