#.. And oh god they're gonna do something. They're gonna have costumes. And theatrics. Oh god

[marciliedonato]

Girls will be like 'I'm fighting demons' and then the demons are mcr set times 💯💯

[blackcatarts]

Is it ok to ask your in-depth pros and cons about the wicked movie hehe

sorry it took me so long to get to this! i have a feeling this is gonna be a bit long, so the rest will be under the cut :> will probably get spoilery!

PROS - expands on the dynamics between the characters- the additional lines and scenes really help you understand who the characters are and what they're like- elphaba repeating her "no im not seasick" spiel to fiyero was a phenomenal choice because it makes her "lets get this over with" line make sense! i loved that! - takes the visuals to another level and really makes you feel like shiz is this huge, beautiful, sprawling campus - makes wicked as a musical palatable to a wider audience - pays homage to the wizard of oz and the stage show quite a few times! (hi idina hi kristen your part was thee closest i got to crying during the whole movie) - erivo and grande actually make for a good pair onscreen and i love erivo's acting choices - i thought the choreo was cute idk i have always been a fan of making oz seem weird and off-kilter in terms of movement because yeah! most of these people aren't human beings and you only really grasp that when you see how they move

CONS - i feel like a lot of roles were miscast- yeoh is a great actress but not a great morrible, nessarose felt bratty rather than sympathetic (which. oh GOD i feel awful about how the movie butchered her character because giving her more agency, while a nice touch, kind of rips away the Point of nessarose which is that she HAS no agency and has no idea how to use it), bailey is very, very, very, oh so very charming but not nearly stupid enough, goldblum feels like he was just set loose on the set and told to do whatever he wanted as goldblum and not as the wizard - erivo's acting choices were brilliant like i said (i love how she performed as elphaba and she really made me feel for her) but her vocals did the opposite of leaving something to be desired- like. she did Too much i think. and i feel like no one else is saying this so maybe i'm just in love with idina which is possible but the amount of riffs really threw me off, ESPECIALLY in im not that girl because it ripped me out of the simplicity of the sadness - grande is a wonderful glinda but she lacks the stage presence that i think glinda needs to have- i think she's a good glinda for film but i cant help but think that she wouldn't be quite as good onstage, and glinda is a character MADE for the stage so i miss her theatricality, i really do - i actually think that might be a general problem though, which is that i miss the LOUDNESS of theater, where elphaba is really a whirlwind of chaos - the animals just being normal animals was. a choice i guess idk i miss the human-animal hybrids and the monkeys did not look. Good - i didnt like the costumes :( fully a me problem but they didn't feel like the characters- glinda not having a huge colorful wardrobe and leaning on pink was my greatest enemy, and fiyero looking like the other students in terms of color palette was disappointing. don't get me wrong, they all looked great and i NEED glinda's wardrobe desperately but they didn't feel like they suited the characters, and the lack of the weird assymetrical unique-yet-standardized uniforms made me a little upset. plus i couldn't really pinpoint if the emerald citizens were wearing fur and / or feathers and that is a tiny detail that i adore from the stage show - why was dancing through life so backlit - I MISS YOU SO MUCH "MAYBE THE DRIVER SAW GREEN AND THOUGHT IT MEANT GO". I MISS YOU SO MUCH VISUAL GAG WHERE DILLAMOND EATS THE WRAPPER OF ELPHABAS LUNCH. I MISS YOUUU

overall it was a good adaptation but it was FAR from perfect, and i am VERY biased towards the stage show which means this pros and cons list reflects that. idk i thought it was good but i also felt like it was lacking. i love wicked so so so much