No matter what, no movie musical will ever be like the stage musical. Musicals and plays are a completely different art form, production, and process than what you see in a film.

I'll go back to the same argument for the book readers. If a film treatment dares to change things or behave even just a little differently than their impossible expectations, you've lost the fans. Like book readers, Broadway fans have a very well-crafted and specific preordained vision built, with high expectations, for any movie that is based on a popular musical or play. You would think someone pissed on hallowed ground. This has entirely become apparent for me with the recent release of Oscar-winning director Tom Hopper's Les Miserables film adaptation. I have now found a second section of the movie-going audience that has the same problem as book readers: Broadway and musical fans. They are completely different mediums, different experiences, and have different mechanics and goals.

As I often state, no movie will ever be like the book, ever. I just went through this with Jack Reacher and how Tom Cruise couldn't be more opposite to the description of the title character from the page.

I get in arguments all the time on this site with my movie reviews with those members of the audience that read the book versus those, like me, that didn't or don't care to read the book before the movie.

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