《汉密尔顿》泛读笔记
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昨天的文章戳→hi 《汉密尔顿》了解一下
#1. 《汉密尔顿》音乐剧介绍
#2. 神仙运镜技术
Again, the intimacy of Kail’s cameraworks wonders here. The emotions on the actors’ faces as they sing are solovingly embraced, especially when they’re pouring out their hearts.
The close-ups and camera movements inthis version enhance the charisma of the performers, adding adimension of intimacy that compensates for the lost electricity of the livetheatrical experience.
Even more remarkably, it keeps all the power of a live performance while simultaneously adding a filmic pizzazz including some breathtaking aerialshots.
The film keeps all the energy of thestage, from the large-scale war scenes to the political power battles which are staged as rap battles. But it also takes us into tight shots of Angelica as shesings of her secret love for Hamilton, or of King George (JonathanGroff), the camera so close we can see the spittle of his anger（哈哈哈真实）over the loss of his American colony.
There’s a good reason behind everytechnical choice — close-ups and moments of stillness intensify the intimacy ofthe more introspective songs; nimble camerawork juices up thecontentious Cabinet battles; wide shots and stunning overheads add to the scope of momentous scenes like the fatal duels that punctuate the story.
It’s no knock to observe that the camera coverage is mostly fluid（以后要说运镜丝滑可以用这个词） and functional.
#3. 角色role
3.1 汉密尔顿Hamilton
…witness to Hamilton’s prodigious rise from poverty and illegitimacy to achieve lasting fame and influence as a military strategist, constitutional defender and economic mastermind.
3.2 伯尔Burr
He scrambles after power and prestige without taking a risk or committing himself to a principle.
The duplicitous Burr may be the most Shakespearean figure in the pageant, a gifted man tormented and ultimately undone by his failure to make himself matter. （哇我爱这句）
Aaron Burr, the politically ambitious also-ran（失败者） who feels the hand of Hamilton in his every failure. Odom never allows him to become the mere villain of the piece.
...Aaron Burr, the coolly calculating politico and future vice president who will emerge as Hamilton’s chief rival and fire the fatal shot in their famous duel.
3.3 安吉莉卡Angelica
Angelica Schuyler (the magnificent Renée Elise Goldsberry), the oldest of the three sisters, is a freethinker and a feminist constrained by the narrowness of the options available to women of her time and class.
Renée Elise Goldsberry is a heartfelt Angelica Schuyler, with a sensational, and soulful, singing voice to boot.
3.4 伊莱莎Eliza
Her sister Eliza (Phillipa Soo), who marries Alexander, is saved from being reduced to a passive, suffering figure by the emotional richness of her songs.
Phillipa Soo is a demure Eliza Hamilton until she breaks out, gloriously, into beat-boxing
3.5 杰弗逊Jefferson
...along with fast-rapping Thomas Jefferson, played by Daveed Diggs, whose mischievous glint and mile-a-minute delivery have made him every bit as difficult as Miranda to replace in subsequent ensembles)
Daveed Diggs is a funny, scrappy Thomas Jefferson with his edgy raps and his attitude;
#4. 歌曲
The ingenuity and economy of the storytelling never cease to astonish. (我可太喜欢这句了）
4.1 “Alexander Hamilton”
the full company’s electrifying opening number, “Alexander Hamilton,” which sketches in the protagonist’s backstory in vivid detail, tracing the loss of his family and his arrival in America while also indicating the hunger to make a mark that will come to define him and nodding toward both his future marriage and his premature death.
4.2 “You’ll Be Back”
He gives the one truly old-school Broadway show tune, the catchy yet terrifying “You’ll Be Back” to King George III (a deliciously snarky Jonathan Groff), as if symbolizing the difference between the old country and the scruffy colonists who are rebelling against it.
King George III (the wonderfully imperious Jonathan Groff) checks in to roll his eyes at the progress of the American Revolution and, after England’s defeat, the messiness and grandeur of the American experiment.
4.3 “Helpless”
“Helpless,” the joyous pop ditty（小曲） in which Phillipa Soo as Eliza fast-forwards from her first encounter with Alexander through to their wedding.
4.4 “Satisfied”
That same sequence of events is replayed to brilliant effect in “Satisfied,” sung by the divine Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, who describes her meeting of the minds and instant attraction to Alexander, and what it cost her to step away and leave him to her adored sister Eliza.
We also see him and Burr make competitive strides into society life, where Hamilton wins the heart and hand of the wealthy Elizabeth Schuyler (Phillipa Soo), even though her sharp-witted older sister, Angelica (Renée Elise Goldsberry), is in many ways his truer match.
4.5 "Wait for it"
Odom nails the anguish of a decent man overcome by frustration and bitterness, expressed most powerfully in one of the show’s standout numbers, “Wait for It,” performed predominantly with Burr alone onstage.
We see Hamilton carousing with friends like the Marquis de Lafayette (the sensational Daveed Diggs), John Laurens (Anthony Ramos) and Hercules Mulligan (Okieriete Onaodowan), drinking and sparring and plotting their response (“Rise up!”) to the ever-wearying millstone of British rule.
4.6 “Dear Theodosia”
...discovering the transformative joys of fatherhood at the same time in the lovely “Dear Theodosia,” in which both men sing sweetly of building a foundation — for their country and their children.
4.7 "The Reynolds Pamphlet"
There are temptations of an affair with the married Maria Reynolds (Jasmine Cephas Jones), placing Hamilton at the center of the nation’s first political sex scandal.
4.8 “Burn”
Soo has the voice of an angel, and when Eliza sings “Burn,” the searing hurt of her husband’s betrayal gives way to anger that rips your heart out.
4.9 “It’s Quiet Uptown”
This is followed by the crushing weight of a devastating loss, which leads into the show’s most beautiful song, “It’s Quiet Uptown.” The staging here, with the divided couple brought back together by grief, their reconciliation overseen by Angelica, is exquisite.
#5. 《汉密尔顿》的不完美之处
Thanks to Miranda’s refashioning of history, Alexander Hamilton now seems like the American hero least likely to topple amid the recent efforts to tear down statues of figures now deemed “problematic” — and yet this telling conveniently overlooks Hamilton’s slave-trading activities, casting him as an early abolitionist. Is it fair for Miranda to take such creative license?
This delirious style of cultural-historical fusion is meant to leave you with as many questions as answers, and “Hamilton,” like any breathless phenomenon, has not gone unchallenged. Historians have unsurprisingly taken the show to task for its inaccuracies, and also for perpetuating the dubious aesthetics of “Founders Chic.” …perhaps the most trenchant criticism has been that “Hamilton” glosses over its hero’s ambivalent position on slavery, adding a note of dissonance, less fatal than fascinating, to the racially inclusive casting that remains its most significant masterstroke.
As for “Hamilton,” the show, “while attempting to make history speak to contemporary audiences, inadvertently whitewashes that history, smoothing out the uncomfortable edges of Hamilton’s life and those of his co-patriots, including their slave-owning pasts.
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