The musical Rent was first produced in 1994 by Jonathan Larson and is loosely based on the opera La Boheme (1896) by Giacomo Puccini. This rock opera production tells the story of the lives of 8 bohemians living in Manhattan for a year. Many of the characters in Rent are pulled directly from Puccini's La Bohème. There are 8 main characters the story follows; Roger Davis, a musician who is HIV positive, Mimi Márquez, an exotic dancer and Roger's girlfriend, Mark Cohen, a Jewish filmmaker who is Roger’s roommate, Maureen Johnson, a bisexual performance artist, Joanne Jefferson, a lawyer who is Maureen's girlfriend, Tom Collins, a gay part-time philosophy professor at New York University with AIDS. Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen who is Collins' partner, and Benjamin 'Benny' Coffin III, their landlord and the former roommate of Roger, Mark, Collins, and Maureen. The plot of Rent borrows heavily from its predecessor. La Boheme was also based on young artists and free-thinkers, and these characters were afflicted with the plague of the time period, tuberculosis. Similarly, in Rent the artists are all affected in some way by the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1990s. The story highlights the two roommates Mark and Roger. A former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, and Mark tries to capture the ups and downs of his friend’s lives on tape through his attempts to make a film.
The beginning of the film opens up to the main characters struggling to make their rent. The rest of
Opening the movie is a newsreel style of narration which sets up how Arizona was in 1879. It began with the explanation that silver-based riches were being found and founded in the Arizona area through mining for the gem and providing goods and services. Promise of this paradise prompted "farmers,
Though the first thing we learn about her is that she is afflicted with AIDS, she persistently lives an existence based on kindness and giving. The audience is immediately endeared to her when she saves Collins at the top of the show and patches him up. Right off the bat she is proven to be generous and tenacious, as she tells Collins, “I do not take ‘no,’” before healing him, buying food for him, Mark, and Roger, and then telling the absurd tale of how she procured the money to do so. As Angel and Collins fall in love, we see the impact she makes on the group of friends’ outlook. In the movie version of Rent, Roger is shown to have a change of heart and attend Life Support with Collins and Angel. This is a huge step for him because it’s been established that he never goes out and doesn’t want to talk about his illness. Angel’s presence is most profoundly felt when she is no longer there. At her funeral, when almost all of the characters have only known her less than a year, each of them is heartbroken. They share their most treasured memories of the outstanding character. Maureen says, “Angel always said how lucky she was that we were all friends. But it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones.” Angel’s death represents a turning point for the whole cast. Roger and Mimi have a split and fight at the funeral, as do Maureen and Joanne. Mark finds himself utterly alone. Roger moves to Santa Fe. Mimi starts getting sicker and returns to Benny.
The characters in the movie showed they were living in a time of poverty. Pete’s family
After hearing about her father’s lose she was a complete wreck. A year after the star player of the Los Angeles Bullets death, Miranda lost everything. Her mother never had a job and always depended on her husband. Miranda and her mother found it hard to live in Los Angeles because they were not economically stable, so they decided to move to Boston. They got a mini apartment for the two of them. The apartment had two bedrooms, a dining room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Some
Greg Gaines is an awkward senior in high school who has an interest in making films with his only friend, Earl Jackson, of whom he calls his “coworker”. Greg’s mom tells him that Rachel Kushner, a girl he used to go to Hebrew school with, was diagnosed with leukemia. By reason of this, Mrs. Gaines forces Greg to hang out with Rachel. They start spending more time together, until they begin to develop a friendship. Soon after this, Rachel has chemotherapy, Earl meets her and decides he should show her the films that he and Greg made, so they could cheer her up. Even though Rachel adores the awful films, her illness is getting worse and worse. Meanwhile, Greg starts to flunk several of his classes, which concerns his teachers and parents. Later
In this paper, we will talk about the movie Rent. We will talk about Jonathan Larson he is the person who wrote Rent. When the final dress rehearsal was. What some of the people have to deal with and where the people live. Some of the characters and what they have and who they are with. Some of the songs that are in the movie and what is going on in them.
Each person in the group has the chance to write their own script about their own life. Each story is collaborated together to create one big performance. This gives former inmates the opportunity to not only show off their creative side, but to learn everything there is to know about theater. After working hard for a couple months, the curtain is finally ready to go up. Working together, these actors will show the world that even those with a bad past can still have a bright future.
Her father engages in a family Feud with his brothers and thus gets his parents killed. Monica leaves home and sets out to find a new life after. She is sold into slavery and forced to participate in drug trafficking by a city drug dealer. Life on the streets is unbearable, living conditions in that particular street are very unbearable, but she strives to survive. There are intolerable conditions, but she works and assembles all the resources that she needs to go back and find out what went down with her uncles to the extent that they decided to kill her father. Monica believes that both her parents are dead and now she is on her own. She learns from the drug dealing business a lot, she is willing to provide any help to the fellow girls, but it is beyond her reach. She hates the place, but she has to buy time for her plans to work. One of her clients is her lawyer, and they get fond of each other, she promised to process immigration papers for her. They grow fond of each other as she takes
Rufus Scott, a young black musician, walks out of a theater in a heat of self-loathing and depression from his homeless conditions and biting memories of a relationship with a Southern white women named Leona. With no apartment and no place to go, he wanders the city, pondering over these memories and whether he should look to his white friend and aspiring writer and bookseller, Vivaldo, for help. In his shame and desperation he doesn’t want anyone he knows to recognize him but wishes someone to see and care enough to help him. Walking to a bar and watching the people mill around he finds himself remembering himself being one of this crowd, one of the bustlers of New York and presumably having a life significantly better, with his family and
Rent proves love is the best way to live. Living with a heart full of love will surely make you feel content with the life you live in even though something may be minimizing the time you have left in the world. The key is to be happy with the love you have, and the love you get to share with others. The movie is mainly about this; love and happiness that disregards the time limit.
The movie starts out in Kane’s childhood home, before his life changed forever. His family is visited by a rich bank owner named Jerry Thompson (William
After an introduction with the cast singing "Seasons of Love," the film opens with apartment tenants expressing their anger with suddenly being asked to pay rent which had previously been waived by the landlord. Collins, a former roommate of Mark's and friend to both Mark and Roger, returns from out of town and is attacked by three men and left
The movie opens with an intro narrated by the main character, Hiccup. Here he sets the scene for what life is
movie then unfolds as part of the paper that Danny is writing. It goes through how Derrick and
The main characters of The Shack are Mack, Nan, Elousia (God), Jesus, and Sarayu. Mackenzie Allan Phillips is the main protagonist however, his friends and family call him Mack. He is a father of five children and husband to Nan. He has built a wall around him ever since Missy was killed and has found himself in the “Great Sadness”. He has backslid in his faith and his love for Nan isn’t as strong as it used to be before the “Great Sadness”. Nan is the glue that holds the family together she is very faithful to the Lord which she calls “Papa”. She is very strong and helps the family through this hard time. Elousia which means the Creator God who is truly real and the ground of all being or Papa who is portrayed by an African American Woman is the housekeeper and cook of the shack. She helps Mack out of the “Great Sadness” and shows him she isn’t at all like Mack thought she was. Jesus who is portrayed by a Middle Eastern carpenter is very relatable for Mack and helps him to understand about Papa, himself, and Sarayu. Sarayu which means wind is the Holy Spirit and the gardener at the shack. She helps Mack to find joy in this situation.