It could be due to the fact that on stage there was some dancing involved while the movie had none; it could be because one was live and one was playback; it could be because some of the harmonies were lost in the movie; it could be simply due to the fact that in one I participated while in the other I was just a spectator. Soon after, she embarks on what is called her "Rainbow Tour" of Europe. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. 0 bids. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.Rated PG for thematic elements, images of violence and some mild language All; Auction; Buy It Now; Sort: Best Match.
Being used to watching flashy, colourful musicals, namely from MGM, full of catchy tunes and full of breathtaking dance routines, "Evita" left me quite shocked.
My cinema teacher played the movie.
When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house. Apart from finally re-uniting composer and lyricist after more than 10 years of cold war, it presents the First Lady of Argentina as a woman who has some feelings, who is afraid in front of her approaching death, who is not only interested in becoming vice-president, as the stage production tends to hint. Check out our list of the month's most anticipated films and shows to stream from home.Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site?
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Woman rises from being an out-of-work actress to the wife of a powerful South American dictator. A few years later, Alan Parker's movie adaptation of the same would contribute the necessary ingredients to transform a historical character into a Hollywood fantasy of mythical proportions. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The movie was great with its re-enactments of the 1940s-1950s Argentine elections, however, having personally performed in the stage version (playing a descamisado, a waiter, a policeman and one of Eva's lovers), I cannot but point out the several drawbacks it had. Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015.
You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Following the release of Evita (1976), a sung-through concept album by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber detailing the life of Eva Perón, director Alan Parker met with their manager David Land, asking if Rice and Lloyd Webber had thought of making a film version. The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina. Use the HTML below. When I found it had Madonna in it I was like oh great. The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence. He understood that they were more interested in creating a stage version with the album's original lyrics. A story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early twentieth century, run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Nonetheless, in order to be fair, I have to admit that the movie version did have some improvements as regards to the play. Even though they were not 100% faithful to the real story, the bio-musical gave a somewhat clear picture of what type of woman Eva Peron was. AU $2.50 postage.