Title: Hamilton
Year: 2020
Director: Thomas Kail
Country: US
Language: English
Hamilton depicts the real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast. The filmed version is exclusive to Disney+.
Overseen by Thomas Kail, who also directed the show on Broadway, this direct stage-to-screen version of Hamilton is a live capture covered by six cameras. Director Kail intermixes Steadicams and cranes with fixed cameras, ricocheting the audience from one side of the stage to the other and trying to find a slightly different approach for each number. The result doesn't look especially cinematic, but it is still quite impressive and full of energy. Please hire this man for more musicals.
Hamilton does a great job at making American History accessible to people of all races. We've all been taught the white powdered wig version of the US, but poet laurate Lin-Manuel Miranda changed the founding fathers to be idealistic people of color (George Washington looks quite similar to Prince) & turned their nations' soundtrack from stuffy classical to up-beat hip=hop. Miranda's version of America is one that reminds its citizens that its roots are in the outsiders. It's such an important statement to make during the Trump era of American politics.
A celebration of diversity which consists of a memorable soundtrack ("I wanna be in the room where it happens."), phenomenal acting by the entire cast (I particularly love the cameos by Jonathon Groff) and inspired choreography, Hamilton is a remarkable musical that has set the bar for how future musicals must look & sound like.
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