# The new RENT movie looks... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096 "2005-06-06T05:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/1 "2005-06-06T05:31:08Z")
Good. :eek: There’s a copy of the trailer posted [here](http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/u/aum141/RentTrailer.mov). I really am looking forward to this piece now. … November 11th is so far away. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/2 "2005-06-06T07:10:46Z")
:eek: Really, really good! Much warmer and richer than I was expecting. Yay! Now I just have to find someone to go see it with, since hubby’s a grouchypants who doesn’t like musicals. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/3 "2005-06-06T08:10:37Z")
I’m glad I’m not the only person excited for the RENT movie. I’ll admit I had my reservations at first, but this _does_ look really good to me. I think Chris Columbus (surprisingly so) really does “get” it. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/4 "2005-06-06T08:26:05Z")
“Everyone has AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS!” I’m hoping it’s good, because I’m not sure I’ll ever get to see it on stage, and for some reason no one I know will lend me the friggen soundtrack to listen to. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/5 "2005-06-06T12:26:26Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > “Everyone has AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS!” Only half of them, really. But yeah, it feels like a lot. A lot of folks had that pesky consumption in _La Boheme_, which is what this is an update of. > [@](#): > > I’m hoping it’s good, because I’m not sure I’ll ever get to see it on stage, and for some reason no one I know will lend me the friggen soundtrack to listen to. Because we’re all afraid it won’t come back. Seriously - I lost two copies that way. This soundtrack is like crack, I tell ya! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/6 "2005-06-06T13:28:57Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > > [@HPL](#): > > > > “Everyone has AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS!” > > Only half of them, really. But yeah, it feels like a lot. A lot of folks had that pesky consumption in _La Boheme_, which is what this is an update of. Whoosh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/7 "2005-06-06T13:59:20Z")
Oh wow. I wish I could find a higher resolution clip to show people… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/8 "2005-06-06T15:03:39Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Whoosh? 😉 What whoosh? Consumption = tuberculosis. (Although now that I review, looks like it was rheumatism instead.) And yes, Rent is based on _La Boheme_. > [@](#): > > [In Puccini’s opera there are four companions living together: Shunard, a musician, Colline, a philosopher, Marcello, a painter, and Rodolfo, a poet. The four companions in Rent are similar in name and “profession.” Angel Shunard is a street musician, Collins is a computer genius, Mark is a film artist and Roger is a songwriter. La Boheme is mainly a love story between Rodolfo and a young grisette named Mimi. In Rent, there is a love story between Roger and Mimi, the club dancer. In La Boheme Mimi is dying of rheumatism, in Rent Mimi is dying of AIDS. > > The most important parallel between the two shows is their faith to the age old bohemian ideals originally brought to life by Murger. Although Rent is romanticized and updated, it is basically the same as the Bohemia of 19th century Paris.]([http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/rent.html](http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/boheme/rent.html)) ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/9 "2005-06-06T16:09:42Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > What whoosh? Consumption = tuberculosis. (Although now that I review, looks like it was rheumatism instead.) And yes, Rent is based on _La Boheme_. And HPL’s quote was from neither Rent, nor La Boheme (which I was not contesting is the source). It’s a line from the movie Team America: World Police. The main character is an actor, to whom we are introduced starring in a hit Broadway play that is a Rent parody titled “Lease.” The finale of the show is a song called “Everyone Has AIDS.” That’s what HPL was talking about, that’s what you quoted with the info that Rent is based upon La Boheme, and that’s why I asked “Whoosh”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/10 "2005-06-06T16:34:16Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > And HPL’s quote was from neither Rent, nor La Boheme (which I was not contesting is the source). It’s a line from the movie Team America: World Police. The main character is an actor, to whom we are introduced starring in a hit Broadway play that is a Rent parody titled “Lease.” The finale of the show is a song called “Everyone Has AIDS.” That’s what HPL was talking about, that’s what you quoted with the info that Rent is based upon La Boheme, and that’s why I asked “Whoosh”. Aah, never seen it. The whoosh is all mine! ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/11 "2005-06-06T16:42:42Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Because we’re all afraid it won’t come back. Seriously - I lost two copies that way. This soundtrack is like crack, I tell ya! 😃 /nitpicky theatre queen/ It’s an Original Cast Recording. The movie’s music will be a soundtrack, though. /nitpicky theatre queen/ ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/12 "2005-06-06T16:50:56Z")
> [@NotWithoutRage](#): > > /nitpicky theatre queen/ > > It’s an Original Cast Recording. > > The movie’s music will be a soundtrack, though. > > /nitpicky theatre queen/ Heh, are you and **Annie-Xmas** sisters? From [another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6104645&postcount=3): > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Nitpick: ON-STAGE MUSICALS DO NOT HAVE SOUNDTRACKS!!! Use that word in front of a musicals fantatic and you risk being pounded with the nearest blunt object. > > I have seen the show twice, and I am looking forward to the Spamalot cast CD. Yeah, it was directed at me. I use both terms interchangeably. Sue me. ---
**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/13 "2005-06-06T16:53:23Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > “Everyone has AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS!” > > I’m hoping it’s good, because I’m not sure I’ll ever get to see it on stage, and for some reason no one I know will lend me the friggen soundtrack to listen to. Ahhhh. I hope you can see it on stage before you see the film - but then again part of why I’m pleased they’re making the film is so Rent can be experienced by more people. I’ve seen it twice on the stage and it is amazing and heartwrenching and the soundtrack is so amazing that it’s tough to lend out. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/14 "2005-06-06T17:17:44Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I’m hoping it’s good, because I’m not sure I’ll ever get to see it on stage, and for some reason no one I know will lend me the friggen soundtrack to listen to. I very strongly recommend you get ahold of a recording ahead of time and familiarize yourself with the music, and thus, the words. If it’s anything like the stage production, it will be hard to follow otherwise. (I listened to it a zillion times before I ever saw it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. But several people who I took to see it missed a lot of what was going on because it’s sometimes hard to parse.) It does look pretty darn good, however. ---
**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/15 "2005-06-06T17:26:05Z")
That’s funny - I totally did that too. I heard the soundtrack at a friend’s house and had to get it for myself - so I listened to it a number of times before seeing it on stage. Definitely helped a ton. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/16 "2005-06-07T05:18:35Z")
Wow! It looks better than I expected! There’s something to look forward to. Thanks for the posting. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/17 "2005-06-08T01:05:52Z")
Count me in as saying “wow that looks great!” I saw the show in 1997 and then sorta drifted away from the soundtrack, but I really think I’ll see this when it comes to theaters. Good to see it’s most of the original cast! Rosario Dawson sings?? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-rent-movie-looks/307096/18 "2005-06-08T01:38:21Z")
I’m impressed. My only concern was/is the age of the actors. I love the musical, I loved the staging (particularly the phone calls and other “F-FWD” parts of the CD that were realized wonderfully onstage) but… am I like the only person who enjoyed the show and still… sorta… kinda… wanted to say GET A JOB YOU DAMNED HIPPIES! STOP WHINING ABOUT BEING BROKE WHEN YOU WANT GET OUT AND EARN A BUCK LIKE THE REST OF US AND YOU’RE LIVING RENT FREE! AND IF YOU HADN’T STUCK NEEDLES IN YOUR ARM YOU WOULDN’T BE HIV+ YOU DAMN BOHEMIAN HYPPIECRITES! but all that said, _One Song, Glory_ is hauntingly beautiful with the huge shadow onstage and I hope that they translate that somehow to screen.