The Reel Rejects - HAMILTON (2020) IS A TOUR DE FORCE MUSICAL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:11 monday or musical monday but this uh we uploaded i believe on our wednesday who knows sometimes they change but yeah there's getting re-released in the theaters so i thought it'd be a good time to do it i want to thank prepper for any of these hyvlets please subscribe and click that notification bell before we go into some cues from the royal rejects I want to get your quick thoughts on your experience with this after finally watching before we do that I got birthday boy here

Starting point is 00:01:38 some presents oh my god we should editors awkwardly insert this before the review this should come in right away Andrew really hyped up this gift I've never got a gift

Starting point is 00:01:54 they're both good I've never gotten a gift from Andrew that he has hyped up to me before all this time. He's going to hate it. Usually every month, every year's a Funko Pop. So, Andrew, I want to make sure I get the right one. So why don't you give me the one that's not as crazy first? There's the first one. Okay, the not as crazy.

Starting point is 00:02:14 Not as crazy, but it's still good. Oh, that's awesome. What are you talking about? This is a great gift. It's insane. I like the second one better, but that's still really good. Oh, that's really cool. The greatest showman

Starting point is 00:02:25 and the scene we just did a musical, right? Yeah, oh my God, and we could put this on the... This is an amazing gift. Thank you, man. Of course. Oh, that's incredible. Oh, I love this movie. I hang out with Olivia way more because of that movie.

Starting point is 00:02:40 Isn't it crazy? It actually really affected me. I love that. It really, really affected me what happened in that review. I was like, damn, I need to... Hot some good lessons, right? Yeah, it's historically inaccurate. It's the movie.

Starting point is 00:02:51 Really, got to change my first life. But it repairs relationships. at least your perspective on how you should have one homeboy really hyped this up let's see okay if anything you got to keep the box okay I am not looking right now oh am I holding it you are for the for the audience to see first yep okay whoa whoa we just got an interview landed with this with Robert Patrick really what now you're going to have to show them out. Oh, awesome. It's my favorite movie. That's what I got to be. Oh, dude, that is real. No, this is coming out of the box. Oh, shit. Is that not cool or what? Oh, my God,

Starting point is 00:03:37 that is a brilliant mug. Holy shit. It costs me enough. It should be. Damn. That is brilliant. Mm-hmm. We literally just, the day before my birthday. Oh, you got to show. You got to show him Oh my God Dude Oh thank you man That is truly This is one of the coolest Cause I've ever got

Starting point is 00:03:59 You're welcome That is true You really you You hype this And you fucking Delivered I knew it's one of his favorite movies It's my favorite movie

Starting point is 00:04:08 Yeah Yeah It's in my time I always go like Matrix or Terminator 2 But I'm like I say Matrix When I want to sound smarter

Starting point is 00:04:14 But it's certainly Terminator 2 Yeah Terminator 2 walked So Matrix could run Yeah This is incredible I love I love this one a lot dude thank you yeah you're welcome thank you thank I know you got

Starting point is 00:04:26 thank you for gift to me on such a terrible time you're going through right now man back to the review I love the film I think for me everyone was fantastic I think the standout performance as the actor who played was it Aaron Burr Leslie Odom Jr. I think I felt like he was by far the most layered character of all you know he was he was very conflict and also he's magnetic at the same time and also very charismatic and also too he could feel a little jealousy

Starting point is 00:04:58 tinging in there as well so I really loved his performance and the way he was just conveying his feelings but everyone did a masterful job Eliza too I felt was the heartbeat of the play or film whatever you want to call it and also too I really like at two hours and 27 minutes whatever it was

Starting point is 00:05:18 I never felt the runtime for one minute And the film, the play, excuse me, is really like, it's, the whole thing is songs. And it's, the songs really advance the plot and progress the characters in a really nice way, I think. So, yeah, I enjoyed every moment of it. There was not one moment that was dull or wasted. It gets to the points, very direct. And it's easy to follow along. And you can tell they put so much, or was his name, Lynn Manuel Miranda, the writer.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Manwell. Oh, excuse me, Lynn Manuel, Miranda. He did a very, you could tell he put a lot of passion care and tenderness into writing this out. And it shows. And they got the right actors to perform it as well.

Starting point is 00:06:04 So, and also I liked a lot of the themes in it as well, legacy and what we leave behind and how they got into the politics of everything. I mean, don't know about all the historical accuracies because I don't remember about all this. from when we learned it in school.

Starting point is 00:06:20 But either way, I thought I enjoyed enough. And also, I like seeing the internal conflicts as well of these characters so that when they did get into the historical stuff, like we were so invested in the characters that I was just, I was grasped. And I felt it was very compelling. What about you? Wow. This is surprise. This is surprisingly really effective for something that is a recorded musical, you know, like when I was younger and I would try to watch recorded. musicals or recorded plays I couldn't get into it and I could just because I was aware of what I was

Starting point is 00:06:54 watching and this is surprisingly immersive like yeah that's I'm not I'm not kidding like when 2020 took edibles and I couldn't pay attention like you're talking about learning in history one of the things I struggle with a lot is racing thoughts it takes a lot of effort every morning for me to do a lot to concentrate and so I could be in a concentrated state and that's one of things So I like doing reactions. Like if I'm watching this at home, odds are I'm going to be like probably checking my phone or being distracted by something else and I might not be as immersed. So when I'm doing a reaction, it forces me to like really concentrate and I'm able to take

Starting point is 00:07:31 it in. And so to be able to take this in after being more acquainted with stuff, I'm like, I really got to see this when it's live. Even though it won't be the same actors, I would love to see the live performance of this. And yeah, there's like so much variety that this offered. And at first it is like, yeah, it's a lot of political information with a little bit character backstory but then as it goes it gets really character driven and it ultimately be it coalesces into something that feels very um both political and personal and as long the music though it's you get

Starting point is 00:08:03 all shades of emotion it's not just fun you know it's tragic a lot of the time it's intense sometimes it's sad it's it's surprise it's really i see why it's legendary and um yeah just speaking of raising thoughts like you're talking about learning in school i didn't pay attention in school i just did not pay attention and the limited time i was in school i only went up to the ninth grade in high school and i i sucked at paying attention i learn better now i'm better at self-educating now um but i am a prime example of the new era where you can find success in life without formal education and so i feel i've always felt like oh i don't really know the history uh too much And so I felt like I was learning stuff

Starting point is 00:08:49 And now when I can go It's kind of that thing When you watch a movie based on a true story And then when you're reading the true story It's easier to read it and digest it And be fascinated by what actually happened And get more details And I feel like now I'll be able to do that

Starting point is 00:09:03 When looking at history With Thomas Jefferson and all that shit So yeah, I thought this was really educational But we got some questions that we got to get into And we got a good amount And I also got to get this guy out of here So we're going to be really efficient with these but we want to make sure we answer them all

Starting point is 00:09:19 just a girl 329 hi Greg and Andrew I hope you both are doing well I love watching movies with you guys thank you so much for all you do thank you for being a royal reject what was the biggest surprise for you in the show either in the story the characters or how the history was represented and who is your favorite character in the show favorite song thanks guys much love alisa thank you Lisa what was the biggest surprise for you I mean again it was uh Aaron Burr's character and for the reasons I already but also too I just aside from being on the $10 bill I didn't know a lot about the backstory when it came to Alexander Hamilton how tragic his backstory is how much of a flawed

Starting point is 00:09:57 character he was you know again besides him being a founding father and then kind of how the cycle of the story repeated and in terms of his life like tragedy tragedy just always seemed to find him and you know the cycle repeated and I mean like after the whole you know scandal with him cheating and then you got the whole Reynolds pamphlet you know then his son tried to stick up for him and that all thing happened with his son then passed away and then with what happened to him and now uh but at least it left a a nice legacy at least with the orphanage um but i think that was the one i was most fascinated that i learned about was uh with hamilton's back story.

Starting point is 00:10:38 Hamilton being a cheater was that being surprised to me. Though when they went back and with the sister was like, wow, that's a real situation. He's caught in his hands there. And you know, like you hear the names when you're growing up, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and someone who did not pay attention in history class learning the relationships and even like Jefferson and Hamilton being at odds. Like I'm surprised why things that I should. already know basically and that that was some of the the things that were really took me by

Starting point is 00:11:11 the things okay the things that surprised you of portrayal wise um would be Thomas Jefferson like kind of the uppity flam a little bit flamboyant kind of childish narcissist that he is like that I didn't I don't know what Thomas Jefferson was like in real life so I'm curious to know why like that was the direction and honestly you know he's not real easy he makes a presence and he's not like the most emotional thrust but part of me wants to say my favorite character is jonathan groff as king george because he just owned the stage and he was there by himself and he was funny too yeah he was incredible man um yeah magnetic is the word for him he was probably my favorite i mean i'm not throw not my i don't know i think i think the song is called my shot

Starting point is 00:11:57 is like my favorite song by default because that's the only song i really know uh before this and And it's cool to, like, get the surrounding context. But after experiencing this, I might, I would say, I imagine it's another cliche answer. Whatever the song is called, when the, in the room where it happened. That would probably be my favorite song. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't in the room when it happened.

Starting point is 00:12:22 Is that with that one? Yeah, that was a real, they were all so good. I would go with that one, though, probably too. Okay. Just because it came back the way they, you know, we love the way when they, what, what's the, I'm trying. I try to articulate it when, uh, what's, what's the word called when you, contextualize it, callback? A callback thing.

Starting point is 00:12:41 Not just a callback, but when they, uh, foreshadow. Not a foreshadow. It's when they, uh, I can't think of the word. It's, um, whatever it is, but they, they, the thing that they were trying to establish earlier on and they, um, I don't even know what I'm trying to say. Anyways, I like that song. And then they, they did it again later on. Um, but this time he said, I'm going to be in the room and it represented tragedy.

Starting point is 00:13:04 because he had to ultimately shoot a guy that he was friends, his first friend. So I think that's why I liked that one a lot because he wanted to be in the room. And then when he finally was in the room, he ended up shooting his friend, even though it was in a duel outside. But still, it's more of a symbolic thing. So I thought that one was really more tragic. Symbolic remixes. Yeah. Are you ready this one?

Starting point is 00:13:25 Yes. Christina, thank you for being a royal reject on the question. I'm so excited you guys are finally reacting to this. Was there a scene that emotionally gripped you more than the others? Do you think you will see it in theaters when it's released? When the sun died. I'm surprised I bought so much into that.

Starting point is 00:13:41 It shows the effect of the acting because you're watching Anthony Ramos play a completely different guy. You're watching him play John Lawrence earlier in the story. Then he's playing a nine-year-old boy who grows up into a college boy. He looks exactly the same as a nine-year-old boy. And surprisingly, the emotional affect of his death scene. And I was like, damn, I'm feeling this right now. And it was a really powerful moment, I thought.

Starting point is 00:14:09 That was the one that emotionally gripped me the most. At the time when I first really emotionally gripped me beyond the musical choices is when they did the rewind. And then you see Angelica isn't really into Hamilton. Yeah. Well, I watch this in the theaters. No, I would rather wait when I get an opportunity to watch it on the stage. Ultimately, I don't think I'm going to have time, unfortunately,

Starting point is 00:14:30 especially with what's going on in my personal life. Otherwise, maybe I would consider it. I did enjoy it, but I would agree with you. The same with the son, I actually was crying. I also think, too, like in the face of adversity and everyone was literally against his father at this point, he still decided to stand up for his father in that moment. And I thought that was extremely emotional.

Starting point is 00:14:48 And especially with what's going on with my father in the current moment right now, too, you know, standing by his father. And that's ultimately what led to his demise. I thought that was really tragic and sad. Meliza, what do you think of the first shadow? wing of Hamilton saying he'll never throw away a shot

Starting point is 00:15:05 a dumb ass kind of didn't pick up on that the duel with Burr. Thank you for telling me he literally normally I'm pretty good at picking up on these things I'm surprised I did it literally throws his wayish and they're kind of

Starting point is 00:15:24 are spelling it out in that aren't they? Yeah they are oh my God it literally throws away shot by aiming at the sky then when Burr saying he's willing to wait for but at the end doesn't wait when he shoots Hamilton. Yeah, that was a good foreshy. I think what I was trying to say earlier was a bookend. But that is a, yeah, it was a good foreshad. Yeah, you and me are pretty good at picking up on foreshadlings.

Starting point is 00:15:45 But again, I think we were so immersed in the moment of everything that was happening. There was a lot of songs and a lot of different moving parts happening. So I think like when you have so, when you have the audience just so in tune with what is happening, sometimes you can get by with doing some of those generic tropey. type of things with your foreshadowing. So I think that's a credit and testament to the writing. Yeah. And the performances.

Starting point is 00:16:09 In the performances, of course. Well, that song in particular, yeah, I thought that song would just be said one time, but they were constantly weaving in lyrics from it. It was almost like parts of those lines were mantras. And I loved watching the progression of when they would bring back lines. Because when you first hear it, it's like uprising, revolutionary, inspiring. And then as it goes, it starts seeming like cautionary, a little dark. Yeah, definitely dark.

Starting point is 00:16:39 Hubris things where, oh, you know, like so much of this is about the power of language and the power of words, but also about the meaning that we apply to the words. So when they were constantly bringing back lyrics from that and not just that song, but primarily that song, I thought that was kind of like a powerful way to demonstrate that when so much of this is about the power of writing um all right jordan lewis griffin thank you for being a royal reject and for asking the question hamilton is possibly my favorite musical of all time i'm so excited to see my favorite rejects react to this masterpiece thank you where would you rank hamilton your list of favorite musicals i know i know i know every musical this is going to be a fun

Starting point is 00:17:25 question i know high school musicals probably one of your tops right um i mean we've seen some really good ones so far Greatest Showman know this Well it's not fair to compare I think because this is an actual musical Right just a musical

Starting point is 00:17:40 Whereas the other ones are Films Very cinematic musicals You know And it's and it's like It's a completely different Type of experience Yeah

Starting point is 00:17:48 But I've seen two musicals live Or I've seen three musicals live And then now this I'd still rank this up there Even though it's not a film film i'd still rank it up there with the films we want somewhere in the top five i know it's for sure not the most exciting answer but it is brilliant and absorbing and educational at the same

Starting point is 00:18:10 time and it it kind of feels like this is our modern day shakespeare you know yeah rhyme in language it's pretty it's pretty effective yeah they made it very uh feel very contemporary and at the same point like still feel like it was from that era and just like blend the blend the two and especially when you hear like rap hip hop oftentimes you know like for the more broadway formally educated folk it's it's not the kind of genre music that one would associate so it's cool to make something that has become you like something that is rap that is rap hip hop but seems to appeal to like all ages and all you know ethnicities and genders like all across the board instead of just a one group so yeah i think there's a lot of strength to that rudy rogers so happy to see you

Starting point is 00:18:55 all react to undoubtedly one of the best musical shows i usually don't like live recordings as much as being there in person or adapting to the screen. But I find the cinematography works really well on this. Absolutely. Do you guys think it deserves a song full-on movie adaptation or would rather see it left as is? So far, Limon-Los said he's open to it.

Starting point is 00:19:13 Much love to all the rejects. I mean, if he's open to it and he feels like he, you know, that there's something, you know, worth more exploring in that sense, I'd be down to see that. If, but I mean, if they want to leave it as is too, I love this. This is great too. but I mean we've seen some great Shakespearean films that they've made again contemporary you know there's

Starting point is 00:19:35 been Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio I know that wasn't a musical per se right it's been a while since I've seen the buzz alarm in film just trying to think of Shakespearean films that they've turned into musicals just my brain's a little mushy right now so I can't really think of any but again if if Lynn wants to explore that he's earned every right to you know do that and I would be down to see it what about you I think this could totally be a, yeah, absolutely think this can be a movie. I'd be surprised if that's not something they are actively pushing right now, considering the success of things like Wicked. Yeah, good point, good point. And I mean, I got to imagine, I don't know how much time it took him to make this, but if he is going to do it, I'm sure like this, he's going to take his time,

Starting point is 00:20:15 make sure it's done just right. Yeah, apparently it was a book first. Finie Kins. Oh, sorry. Thoughts and opinions about if this. musical were ever adapted into a film do you think they'd be able to pull it off yes i want to take this opportunity um i read your question in advance what i was trying to spread it out is i will say like what i think they would have to do though is obviously it would be cool to like see a little bit

Starting point is 00:20:43 more of the not the rent approach where it just seemed like they were shooting a musical uh i would they would have to bring like some battles in there and like showcase that in the actual background part of me was wondering like my mind actually jumped there when he is actually having the affair directly of uh you got to do something a little bit more than just saying you're having this affair or doing this stuff you it would be more mature i think than what they are able to get away like contextually it seems like they dropped the f bomb a few times um and they would probably have to remove that because they would probably want a pg 13 rating right um but i i i think you could do something that is very much

Starting point is 00:21:21 cinematically achieved and it would allow for like a bigger scope and to be privy to a lot of the things that are being left to the imagination that we have already seen done in film. I guess the thing is you don't want like the part of it is like the upliftingness of it and I guess if you're seeing the

Starting point is 00:21:37 darkness of battle it might undercut the music a little bit so you need a very talented director who's able to still keep the music at the right pitch of what the emotion is to be conveyed without visual of war and such weighing it down but I think it would be I wouldn't be opposed to like watching how they would possibly pull that shit off I agree with all that I think the biggest thing too is like

Starting point is 00:22:03 make it in a way where it doesn't feel exactly like a copy and paste because I think that's like the biggest thing when just for instance when I watch like a lot of Disney remakes I'm not saying they're even bad films but a lot of times when I watch them like I just feel hollow in my for me personally because I'm like I feel like I'm watching the same thing oh over and I'd love to just see like again not it doesn't have to be an entirely different film for instance but I don't need to see the exact same thing because if I'm like I don't just watch this version you know so I'd love to see him like explore things that he maybe didn't do in this while also you know doing with kind of the ideas that you were talking about go on some of those more

Starting point is 00:22:43 mature themes that you're you're indulging about and I agree so I think it would be cool if he was able to also, that's the thing is when you're watching a play, it's different, but you, you, if you don't, in our day and age, you know, if you, if you cast ethnically diverse for all these characters who were predominantly white folk, who would be like, oh, then people would be raging on the internet or something that was made popular with an ethnically diverse cast already. So I would be curious to see how to pull it up, but I would want them to keep it ethnically diverse. Brian Reed, which songs from Hamilton do you think capture Hamilton's personality? man uh i mean anything that goes about legacy and i mean he was a guy that he just he wanted like nothing was ever enough for him and he wanted more uh so any songs that embraced and embodied that i would say i can't remember the names of all this songs i mean because we just heard a bunch of songs so i would say that um yeah i think the book end from my shot to when he is about to be shot you know

Starting point is 00:23:47 those two are the embodiment of his exact journey of that's a reason the my shot song kept being brought back in because that's a good point they are they are is the thing that was the most telling of this guy's ultimate dissent and consequences of it's like it's the song is both um the encapsulation of his ascension and dissension and when he gets to the final moments there he's kind of reflecting on this pursuit. and what those pursuits cost him in the end, you know. So I feel like just the bookend of both of those being kind of put together. That's a good sandwich, I think, of them too. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. All right, from Stacey Grimm.

Starting point is 00:24:31 I'm actually losing my mind that you're reacting to this. What did you think about the king and the voice of Jonathan Groff? I think that was one of your favorite performance. Yeah. I mean, as we pointed out, he's extremely magnetic. I think like the way he just comes off is egotistical, narcissistic. And I also love to, we pointed out in real time, that he was basically for the most part and pretty much every scene he was in, unless he had like, you know, a servant with him or something that he was basically isolated and he viewed everyone as so beneath and below him. And he just conveyed that in either his words or just his facial expressions, sorry about that. That's my headache alarm.

Starting point is 00:25:07 And yeah, I just, I love the energy he brought on him. and also too just how like calm he could be but you could still feel that intensity like just brimming through him and then he could let it out on a dime right away so yeah he was phenomenal I loved him and he wasn't in the the player the film a ton but you could still feel him around especially like before and I loved like when he came out too after George Washington was like like do they need me now and it's like yeah I just I really loved his performance for him I know you did too but Do you want to go more on that? Yeah, I think he found the right tone for the character where he could be amusing, be musing, and also, like, he's very pompous and arrogant, and you could hear the, the way he likes to toy and manipulate.

Starting point is 00:26:04 Yeah. You could hear all that in his voice. Like, especially his first song talking about his love. You know, this is, he doesn't view himself as malevolent, but benevolent, even though he knows he's malevolent in the way he rules. Yeah. I think he managed to bring like all layers of shade while keeping it funny, you know, and without also him laughing at what he's doing, he managed to make it really funny. And that was one of the benefits I thought of it being recorded is you get to be really up close and intimate with that performance, which you just, no matter how close you are to the stage, I'm sure there's, there's different intimacy experience. is when you get when you are front row are really there but with the camera up there you get a real

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Starting point is 00:28:37 Use the code and fill out the post checkout survey to help support. the show. Thank you again, Hewell, for being a big part of my lifestyle. All right. We are on Kyle Gray. Thank you so much for being a Royal Reject. And so excited, you guys are reacting to my favorite musical of all time. I saw the original cast with my high school and we did a Q&A, Lynn, and some of the cast. Awesome. That's cool. Do you view Burr as a villain? Also, what is your interpretation of Eliza's gasp at the end of the show? I'm in. Her gasp at the end was tragic. You really felt it.

Starting point is 00:29:13 And I just, I get the, for her, like, she endured so much pain and loss throughout this. And I really just appreciated it again that she was still, after everything that she had been through, still willing to, like, withhold this man's legacy and still, like, did it with dignity and honor. In regards to, do you view Burr as a villain? I like that a lot of the film viewed, was viewed through his lens and his perspective. So it's interesting.

Starting point is 00:29:47 You know, it's not so black and white. It's kind of a lot of gray in there. You know what I mean? And I think like, at the end of the day, he understood like he made a mistake by shooting Hamilton. He's like, I wish I would have seen that we could have, like,

Starting point is 00:30:03 we could have, you know, there was enough of this world for both of us. So, yeah, he made a he definitely made a crave mistake on what he did for sure and there were times of again his you know by holding in his feelings too that was obviously you know and not expressing himself that ultimately led to hamilton not nominating him over uh madison which led again to the domino effect as you pointed out so there were definitely a lot of mistakes he made i don't know if i would go as far as to say he's he's a straight-up villain he's evil but i think there were a lot of mistakes he made

Starting point is 00:30:38 and I appreciate that he at least had the foresight to see that he made mistakes and I can appreciate that. Well, my interpretation of Eliza's gas with the end of the show, to me, I took that as earlier in the story, she's talking about how there's an erasure of her narrative

Starting point is 00:30:54 and her responses to things. And even then she's explaining, you know, how she putting herself back in the narrative and she's doing all these interviews to try to tell Hamilton's story. And she doesn't, gift us her reaction to, you know, be learning about the cheating and shit like that.

Starting point is 00:31:14 And I think in that moment that gasp is bringing it back to the present of like, yes, there's the inspirational spot of like what she did after, but that is us getting the window into her gasp. I don't know if I'm fucking right about any of this shit. That's just pretty valid, actually. It's an interpretation, but that was my interpretation of why they ended it off

Starting point is 00:31:33 with bringing it back to, uh, here's I did in the future. And here was the present day reaction that I had. of absorbing all this tragedy and that she did love him and she was affected and I would say

Starting point is 00:31:45 dad bloke would you consider burr to be one of the greatest physical villains in history for me he ranks pretty high honestly to get two of these questions back to back surprises me I don't view him as a villain I didn't even once consider him a villain yeah exactly I didn't either just because of the way the world operated

Starting point is 00:32:02 back then everyone's like yo you stepped on my shoe we're gonna duel you know you're fucking like dueling over the stupid shit talk shit about my dad let's duel to the death yeah and you know they were they had like political shit going on and they were uh the fact they would duel over minor things for them to duel over that is bigger than what other people were dueling over and so it made sense to me that that would happen and to even take it in the perspective that he that he thought Hamilton really was going to pull the trigger and they're really um breaking that down as to why he why he thought

Starting point is 00:32:36 he would pull the trigger so i understood and not once throughout the story that I feel like he was being villainous. You know, it just seemed like difference of politics, but they had respect for each other and they still consider each other friends. So a lot of people apparently consider him the villain, and he deems himself

Starting point is 00:32:51 the villain in the story. I never viewed you as a villain. Yeah, and he even said that too. Like, a lot of you will view me as the villain in the story. And again, that's why I appreciated that he had the foresight or at least the way it was written here. You know, to say that I love characters who are flawed, but also see

Starting point is 00:33:07 the error of their ways. And I think that's something we can all resonate with and nobody's perfect. And again, not justifying what he did. He made a mistake, but he knew he made a mistake and he regrets it. This was the guy who was his first,

Starting point is 00:33:19 they were first friends with each other. So, yeah. Well, speaking of resonating. Resonance Z. Thank you so much for being a royal reject. Awesome. I'm sure you enjoyed the film. We did.

Starting point is 00:33:35 Question, how do you feel about the racially diverse cast? as an Asian. I felt it was great to see diversity represented in a story about the founding of the country. It's definitely more representative of the country today. I mean, you mentioned that while we were reacting to it. That, you know, film is, that big theme of the film is immigration.

Starting point is 00:33:52 And it's awesome that they do have such a racially diverse cast, you know, representing it's symbolic, too. I'll say when I was on my edibles, I was wildly confused. I didn't know you could just do that with place. Like, I really didn't know you could do that. that so because my mind was going to the past when I was first watching it and I was thinking like oh I thought I didn't realize like oh there were all these black people here just that's how I viewed it I didn't I just didn't I just didn't understand that oh they were just casting so I was

Starting point is 00:34:23 tell you like it was not a good experience of what I was so and that's why I could pay attention but to see it in a very sober circumstance and to understand what I'm looking at now yeah I think for the idea of immigration's been a time. They said they filmed this in 2016. So immigrants have been a real sensitive subject for a very long time. Probably this was a history of our country. Even though this is founded on immigrants,

Starting point is 00:34:47 yeah, I think it needs to be a diverse cast to kind of demonstrate it. And it's a musical. It's fucking fictional as shit. Like, it's not fictional, but it's told with a lot of creative liberties, you know. So yeah,

Starting point is 00:35:01 by all means, go make it. We watch so many, much great a showman, which apparently does not drive home the truth at all of how that guy was. Petee, right? Yeah, but this is, so yeah, I think it's a great call and I think it actually feeds the

Starting point is 00:35:14 narrative a lot more. Hell, Limelma and I want Miranda. You think that sounds like a white dude? Come on, he wrote the whole goddamn thing. I agree with everything you said. And also just on top that when it comes to performances, like, I just want the best damn actor. And if they give a great performance, like, I'm happy but also the fact that they, you know,

Starting point is 00:35:31 are, it's symbolic and that what they're representing to, than that it's it's playing in real time like that I appreciated that as well but at the end of the day I just want the best actor and I felt like they had the best actors up there and you know I was resonating with all their performances and like I

Starting point is 00:35:48 thought they embodied all their feelings and I love them all they were great so if they do make a movie I know there's probably going to be an uproar but I would be totally fine with it wouldn't bother me in the slightest cool Alicia Ortiz

Starting point is 00:36:03 Lynn has said in the past that he couldn't afford to see Broadway shows growing up and the closest he could get was wearing the soundtracks and so he intentionally made this musical with very little spoken dialogue so if someone was listening to the soundtrack that could understand the full context of the story smart call. What did you guys

Starting point is 00:36:19 think of how little spoken dialogue there was throughout the story? Did you find it overwhelming or helpful? Honestly it was a lot of times there can be moments where when I'm listening to songs, that's why we put subtitles

Starting point is 00:36:33 on. I just want to make sure I'm understanding everything. Sometimes when I'm listening to songs, I'm not fully following. I'm like, wait, what did they just say? Oh, wait. Now, I got to pay attention ahead of what they're saying here and like follow all the movements and everything. But this is one, this film did a great job. Excuse me. This play did a great job of really allowing me to understand and absorb and follow everything again. Did a great job of advancing what was going on, whether it was story or characters or just feelings and conveying that through the songs, but even when they weren't saying or speaking anything, I could just feel like what they were doing from visual narration. So I thought Lynn did such a great job of writing that across

Starting point is 00:37:13 in every which way, whether it was the songs or the silent moment. So what about you? Speaking of flow state, I think this gets into flow, you know, where after a while it just transports you into the language. Because at first, you know, you're hyper, I was hyper aware, like the rap and the rhymes and shit and before you know it you're not even thinking about that you're just listening to them speak and you're real and so you you buy into like it's a new language at that point and so i didn't find it overwhelming at all in fact i thought it was incredibly impressive because you could really see the because it's rap too you could really for most of it you know like king george i'm going to call that rap but for most of it's rap it really feels like the

Starting point is 00:37:58 actors are able to connect with a dialogue and perform it like true scene work not saying that's the idea of any musical but i think it's easier to actually convey that here because it's rap and i thought it was like a really cool way to get lost in the language of it all and versus you know stop having dialogue and then going into it keeping it all music and song lyrics makes it more of an absorbing experience i think also too that made the uh the pace of the film just very frenetic and and float very nicely too to your point Yep. Take it away. All right. Next one is from Stephanie Horton.

Starting point is 00:38:38 Thank you so much for being a royal reject. Now, a couple questions. Did you learn anything new about American history of the time from watching the show? Is there anything you want to look up to learn more about? They said they filmed the show through during live performance several times and cut it together. Could you tell what are your thoughts on the production value about learning something new? I think we talked about the Hamilton Cheat, Hamilton Cheatings. so yeah I didn't know that is there anything that you want to look up and learn hold it

Starting point is 00:39:06 yeah I'd like to see like comparison wise what exactly was was historically accurate versus what you know Lynn kind of just did for for the play so I would want to just see can make comparisons in that end I'm sure there's a BuzzFeed article we could find yeah probably but I'd still like to look at that or even watch a YouTube video that makes a comparison of the two I'd love to do that and then they said they filmed during a live performance yeah well you You mentioned, we mentioned that in real time or you did. I said, there's a lot of long shots. You're like, this is a live performance.

Starting point is 00:39:35 And after you said, that was like, oh, yeah, I can hear the audience. And then they're making all the noises and clapping. So, yeah. So I was talking about, can you tell that it was stitched together? Yeah, I thought it was two shows. I didn't realize it was several performances. But normally when they do, it's like stand-up comedy. A lot of the time, they're stitching together, like, a couple of performances.

Starting point is 00:39:53 Yeah, yeah. And that was just my presumption. And I think some of them were probably pickups, you know, when they're doing, like, super big close-ups. Like, I can't imagine. I don't know if they were just intrusive on an actual play. He's just a camera man up there in their fucking faces and blocking the performers, maybe. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:40:09 I've ever seen something like that. But the production value was great. You know, that's the thing is normally when I would watch video of a play or a musical, I just couldn't finish it or get into it because it felt like artificial to me. But the production of it is so good. and the way they're capturing is so good that I'm able to still see the world and see what they're seeing

Starting point is 00:40:35 and even when they're doing like a battle thing you can feel the battle it's kind of weird because there's like wow there's weirdly doesn't feel like I'm kept at a distance I still feel like I'm in it so yeah I thought this is a really excellent job

Starting point is 00:40:46 and they really captured too not only by the music and just like the performances that you feel what they're viscerally like viscerally seeing but I love the colors that they added like you can it feels like we're seeing explosions and such

Starting point is 00:41:00 through the colors and all that. So they did a great job with that as well. Omar Villardo. What was the most surprising thing you learned about the American Revolution or the founding fathers from watching this musical? Everything.

Starting point is 00:41:12 Having learned didn't pay attention, injection and school. I would say with the founding fathers, Greg, like how much they disagreed with each other. Like, yeah, they had similar things that they wanted to achieve, but different ways of getting them. So, you know, it takes,

Starting point is 00:41:27 what do they say in filmmaking? It takes a village to make a family, to make a film and I guess like you know to to run a country or make a constitution but it's just fascinating and compelling and dramatic as well just to see like how much disagreeing there was and just like the egos in the room and all that too so I think that was the thing that surprised me and what I didn't remember from learning in school or not learning I guess in this case so yeah I would say that yeah um the most surprising thing uh I would I would say I mean, to go off your point, yeah, you know, usually everything's just kind of put on a pedestal, historically speaking.

Starting point is 00:42:05 You think about statues, dollar bills and, like, the great accomplishments they had, but you don't think about the process and struggles that they went through. Like, the last thing I expected was how truly at odds they were, especially someone like a Hamilton and a Jefferson. So I think when it comes to that, I mean, we talked about it at an extent with all these, but I think all of it was really eye-opening for me. The Reynolds Pampfell. Like, I didn't even heard of this Reynolds Pampfley. I had so much of it was a surprise. Like, I knew, like, the basics of the American Revolution. I only knew that.

Starting point is 00:42:39 Because I've seen documentaries about it years ago, you know, but I didn't pay attention to text nor understand a lot of these relationships. I've seen the Patriot. That's what I remember about the American Revolution. It's very accurate. Mell Gibson's character was real. Yes. Last question. Good old Benjamin Martin.

Starting point is 00:42:56 From Keanu. now thank you for being a royal regic hi kids what's for dinner tofu you absolutely love this musical can't wait to see all react to more of my faves mulan rouge i have not seen that across the universe rock a man greece one and two i've not seen any of those i did grease one here lin manual miranda is the master manuel manuel manuel manuel manuel manuel is the master making catchy ear worms tunes my favorite song from this musical is easily the how do you say that one shoulder sister shoulder sisters i think this other yeah closely followed by the king's song oh king

Starting point is 00:43:31 song's probably yeah what song from the show do you think you'll find yourself humming around the office as always i gotta i gotta i gotta as always you all are the radis hoping you all uh you and all the reject nation having have a feel good friday we'll try it to my thank you so much for the question i'd be doing nothing away my shot yeah well i'm not good at singing but uh the king one's a good one I could definitely see that one or at least getting that tuned down. I'd definitely be doing that around here. Which one would I do?

Starting point is 00:44:02 I like to get my shot one or have my shot, whatever that one. That was a good one. I could see myself doing that one. Yeah. I like Namo Miranda's voice. It's so unique. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:44:11 Not born a wee, my shot is like this weird, like kind of. And also I'd love to react to any one of those films that were mentioned as well. I'll probably get to a Mulan Rouge brother. All right, we will do it. Thank you guys so much for the cues. Thank you so much for.

Starting point is 00:44:25 joining us. We'll see you soon. Recommend more musicals. Musical Mondays usually when we do it. We'll see you guys soon. Much love. Thank you, Royal Rejects.

The Reel Rejects - HAMILTON (2020) IS A TOUR DE FORCE MUSICAL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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