Angels in America

by CaptainSchmideo 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • CaptainSchmideo
    CaptainSchmideo

    I just started watching this movie/miniseries/epic on DVD last nite. So, far, very intriguing!

    I find the storyline about the Mormon couple particularly riveting. The husband is struggling with homosexual tendencies versus his religious upbringing and beliefs, while his wife, who has family abuse in her history, is addicted to Valium and slowly going crazy while dealing with her husbands issues.

    Al Pacino as Roy Cohn is really complex. His doctor tell him he has AIDS, and his response is "I am not a homosexual. I am a heterosexual male who likes to #%&@ around with guys. A homosexual has no Clout. I have Clout. A homosexual has AIDS. I have Liver Cancer." Meanwhile, he tells a lawyer colleague that "La Cage a Folles" is the best musical on Broadway, ever. Better than "Cats".

    All this in the first hour, and a really wierd dream sequence combining Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", "Sunset Boulevard","Wizard of Oz", and "Twin Peaks."

    I really wonder how this all was done when it was a play...

  • Preston
    Preston

    Hi Captain,

    I read your post and I wanted to let you know I did see "Angels in America" the play on November 2002. It was shown in two three-hour parts, much like the miniseries that you saw. Everything went by so quickly though, it really didn't bore anyone. You have to hand it to the playwright for keeping the audience interested for 6 hours. The main difference in the play is that the play is much..... much.... funnier. I noticed that there was something in the play that the movie couldn't capture and that was just the sponteniety of it all. I do think plays do that. I will say that whoever was the technical advisor for the play had their work cut out for them because even though it was in a small theater a lot was going on.

  • Brummie
    Brummie

    I saw it on UK TV, it was certainly intriguing, unusual but good.

    Brummie

  • Mulan
    Mulan

    I watched it on HBO and thought it was really good. Complex. I too enjoyed the Mormon couple. Eerily familiar, don't you think?

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