The ways in which the DEHscourse has unfolded on Twitter over the last few months is driving me a little bit crazy. Chow: Dear Evan Hansen was deeply uncomfortable and squirm-inducing its characters did horrible things Ben Platt looked bad. The musical was a lot more about the relationship between a mother and son, an aspect of the story that felt lost in this adaptation.Īndrew R. She has two songs that were cut in the movie, the opening number and then the anger-fueled “Good for You.” Her character effectively served as this haunting reminder of how hard parents work to protect their children and for those efforts to basically not matter at all because of the Internet.
In the musical, her presence and absence are both so pronounced. Plus, they cut most of the time his mother was on screen. In the movie, this made it really hard for me to see Evan as a sympathetic character. That’s probably on me for suspending my disbelief in the theater. The central plot of Dear Evan Hansen-that Evan lied about being friends with a boy who killed himself, and then befriends that boy’s family (and manipulates the boy’s sister into falling in love with him!)-didn’t bother me as much as it did in the movie.
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The arrival of the stage musical came at a time when it felt like just about every movie was becoming a musical-so maybe I was willing to give an original story more of a chance. While the original production was tense and anxiety-inducing, it never made me feel as unsettled as watching the movie. I loved the musical! Yes, Ben Platt does immediately look too old, but that’s nowhere near the top of my list of complaints here. Is the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen really that bad?Īnnabel Gutterman: As soon as I saw that they cut the musical’s first number, “Anybody Have a Map?” I knew we were in trouble. Read More: Cats Is Terrible, But It’s Also Kind of Great Let’s jump right in. What went so wrong for Platt and the film’s creators? Did their creative decisions sink excellent source material, or was the well poisoned to begin with? And in an era in which we are suddenly deluged with movie musicals-with Cats, In the Heights, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and West Side Story coming later this year-what makes a good adaptation, anyway? To discuss all of this and more, TIME convened two of its foremost theater nerds, who saw Dear Evan Hansen both on Broadway (with Platt) and on screen, Andrew R. Variety called it “deeply offensive.” “Undoubtedly the worst musical I have ever seen…Jail to everyone,” wrote one film critic on Twitter. The film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, which tells the story of a depressed teenager who gets caught in a web of lies, arrives in theaters Sept. This month, he’s faced nearly the opposite reaction for playing the exact same role. The result is: This is a spoiler sentence.Ĭomments in violation of this rule may be removed.Ben Platt in "Dear Evan Hansen" Credit - 2021 Universal Studiosįive years ago, Ben Platt received rapturous near-universal praise for his work as the protagonist of Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway.
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