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Musical discussion
What is a movie franchise that would be better if people were singing?
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Prompt
What is a movie franchise that would be better if people were singing?
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Batman and Robin
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- Answer qualification: Initial scope: specific movie; Expanded scope: all of them; Included example: the Dark Knight trilogy
- Response: This movie is so campy, so over the top goofy that I think it will lend itself very well to the musical format.
- Ending or payoff: Do a musical, you coward.
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DCEU
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- Answer qualification: It was like, we can't ruin Dark Knight.
- Response: So we can just music-ify all of them and they probably would actually improve them.
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Danny, what do you think?
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Scream
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- Central premise: Could you imagine Ghostface having his own musical number?
- Important beats: Analogy: Heathers; Reported adaptation: Originally it was a movie and then they made it into a musical and it was very popular.; Staging: They do some really cool things on Broadway these days with projections and screens and stuff.; Ghostface: I envision him singing behind, or she, behind the Ghostface mask.
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Collaborative Scream musical discussion
Discourserole: collaborative hypothetical design; Clauses: Mask tease: They'll take off the mask when they turn around and stuff.; Voice: It'll be like the voice, like Scream voice through the recorder.; Alternatives: multiple people sing as Ghostface mask the voice in some way; Ghostface singer: who is being suspected; Changes during show: True; Additional pitch: Dance deaths.
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- Adjudication: Discourserole: informal reactions; Positive: Okay, I kind of like that idea, too. I can see it's the next big show.; Negative: When you first said the idea, I was like, yes, this is a great idea. The more we've talked about it, the more I'm sure it's not.; Production banter: All right, well, we will be producing that.
- Curtis: “I like that you remember the second movie and were like, it's gender neutral.”
- Dani: “I feel like there could be some great opportunities to tease the audience on who the killer is during a dance number. What do you mean?”
- Dani: “It'll be like the voice, like Scream voice through the recorder.”
- Curtis: “What if you had a lot of, like, suspicion? So, like, throughout the musical, we keep, like, throwing the suspicion on a specific character,”
- Curtis: “Ryan, let me see if I can reignite that passion in you. Dance deaths.”
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- Ryan: “So Curtis, since you are newly indoctrinated into this noteworthy genre, why don't we start with you? What is a movie franchise that would be better if people were singing?”
- Curtis: “Danny, what do you think?”