"Hamilton" as a musical, presented in an off-site way, has advantages and disadvantages. As far as the advantages are concerned, as a bottom-level student party, I only buy tickets in the middle and back rows. It is difficult to get an experience that can clearly see the subtle changes in the actor's demeanor and even the spitting out of the saliva as shown in the picture below. For the clips and details to be appreciated, pause or playback that cannot be done at the scene can also be easily realized at this time, and you can do whatever you want. And, it greatly reduces the cost of acquiring resources and viewing.
However, when watching live, the line prompts are often located higher on both sides of the stage, which is basically the same height as the main activity space of the actors. People’s viewing line of sight can almost simultaneously take into account the words in the form of text and the performance in progress, at least in the two. Switching between them is not too laborious. Rather than live recorded video, subtitles tend to be at the bottom or top, and on smaller playback screens, it allows non-native speakers to focus their gaze away from the actor's performance for an extended period of time, choosing, wandering, switching between the two , which can easily lead to a feeling of exhaustion, and the subtitles took up most of my energy the first time I watched the video. Moreover, the overall pace of "Hamilton" is relatively fast. I think even native speakers may need subtitles in some passages. In short, when presented in a video format, subtitles first become a hindrance to distracting attention.
Secondly, the camera position and angle switching of the video deprives the "freedom" that the scene can have, which should be the price to be paid for low-cost viewing. On the scene, there are many elements in a scene, and I can choose which one to focus on, which one I prefer, but in the video that has been finalized, the camera makes the choice for me. Where it is facing, I can only see where it is. Thinking and judging have been made on my behalf, as if what it was photographing was "the most worthwhile thing to see" at the moment. Although hypocritical, I've always been wary of being dominated by the camera and the manipulators behind it.
Speaking of the musical itself, I didn't expect its rhythm to be so fast. The use of hip hop elements makes it look very new, which more or less breaks the expectations of traditional musicals, and also produces a kind of overwhelmed and overly noisy. feel. In terms of intuitive experience, it is easy to leave a very shallow impression after listening to it and slip past it. It is not as good as the musical "Les Miserables" that produces many extremely classic arias. For example, "Do you hear the people sing" is unforgettable after listening to it. words and melody.
The interesting thing is that Hamilton and Burr are always juxtaposed and described in parallel, the effect is like reading the "Xiang Yu Benji" and "Gaozu Benji" in the "Historical Records" together. Xiang Yu said "he can be replaced", Liu Bang said "a man should be like that"; Hamilton said "I'm not throwing away my shot" and Burr said "I wanna be in the room where it happens". The former is only to illustrate a possibility, but the latter has a very clear, very utilitarian and very specific goal that must be achieved, and the outcome is already doomed. Hamilton is like Xiang Yu. He wrote about his peach-colored experience, ignoring that his political career and family life may end there. He pointed his gun at the sky during a duel, and he surpassed the game of life and death like an overlord committing suicide. tragic heroic life. In fact, I think one of the most beautiful scenes is that after the victory of the war, Burr and Hamilton appeared side by side, singing their wishes for their children. They were so similar at the time, and the world really could accommodate two new children who were very interested in their own children. With the hopeful father of the young country, it is a pity that their contradictions and differences were written early in the morning and are completely irreversible.
The description of Hamilton's love and family life is quite bold. At least I can't imagine that China will one day write about the stories I have to tell about the emperor of Chao and his women in mainstream literary and artistic works that praise revolutionary ancestors. . However, the presentation of Hamilton's image in this play is fundamentally incomplete and broken. The screenwriter may subjectively want to show its rich and diverse "sides", but forget that this is a somewhat unfamiliar country builder who is not as well-known as Jefferson, Washington and others, and his front may not be familiar enough, so The choreography seems a bit "unable to eat if you want to eat the sky". His early years and his struggles and explanations are a bit brief, and the main deeds of the characters are not strong enough, not outstanding enough, and even Jefferson's personal charm far surpasses Hamilton. And, his emphasis on "human life" later, some jumped directly into the admonition to his son and his own death, the arrangement of the two duels was a bit blunt, not natural and mature enough. In short, the rich sides have become broken and disconnected sections, which sometimes seem a little inexplicable.
In addition, the relationship between Britain and the United States is very interesting in the play. It is intended to use a lover-like tone to write the pair's "resentment". The British king's funny complaints and "da da da" are quite interesting, but who can deny that This is not true in a certain sense.
Overall, this drama is worth watching - but it's only worth watching "one", at least in my personal taste, I still don't like scenes that are too noisy and noisy but lack enough strength and pattern, I think it's a pretty good resource, Maybe even better.
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