If you’re not one of those in general, you’re going to think that your time window/frame for success is slowly closing the older you get. I think this is a movie for both theatre lovers and artists in general. We also get really close and personal with this when Michael emotionally reveals that he’s gay and HIV positive, adding this sense of the ticking clocking ready to go boom. There’s also the context of the AIDS crisis in NYC going on in the background, as Ross’ character has HIV and is hospitalized towards the beginning of the movie. It’s about the life of an artist who feels like his time is running out, so he relentlessly pushes for his goals. There’s a lot to muse about with this movie. In the final climax of their relationship, they try to reconcile, but then she pulls away from him, crying, and says, “You’re going to turn this into a song, didn’t you?” And that’s when “Therapy,” one of the most well-known song of the musical, is playing. It’s devastating to see their relationship fall apart because he’s consumed by his work and she can’t understand it. He just wants to be an artist.Īnd so he struggles, but also loses the relationship he had with his girlfriend Susan. He sees the value in trying to go down the path, but he doesn’t want to do that. Larson, however, tries and fails at advertising because he’s too creative. Struggling to pay the rent, his roommate and friend, Michael, chooses to go down the corporate advertising path in order to actually make money, and then he moves out to a nicer apartment in Manhattan. ![]() He works at a diner and hasn’t found success as a theatre artist. Larson is about to turn thirty years old and in New York City, it seems like everything is slipping between his fingers. They’re performing the actual songs in the musical for a live audience, while the screen cuts between them performing and then the actual story part of this. The way this story is told is that it alternates between a performance on the stage with Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, and Joshua Henry. Which, if you know how young he died, and the fact that Larson died the night before Rent premiered on Off-Broadway, it’s absolutely sad and enlightening to know how this story ends. I never knew Garfield could sing, but he seems to embody the sheer amount of anxiety and hope that Larson has for his career. Andrew Garfield is absolutely brilliant as Larson in this film edition. Larson wrote the book and lyrics for this, which is originally a theatre musical, before he tragically died at the age of thirty-five. Tick, tick…Boom! is about the life of Jonathan Larson, and it’s Lin-Manuel Miranda, of the Hamilton and In the Heights, debut as a film director. Tick, tick….BOOM! is a glimpse into the inner turmoil and life of Jonathan Larson as he turns thirty years old. But seeing this movie for the first time, not knowing what to expect…it was extraordinary. He was the guy who wrote Rent, which many people know about because of the movie (and the fact that Idina Menzel was in it, naturally, because people go crazy for her in Frozen). That being said, I actually didn’t know much about tick, tick…Boom! although I knew a lot about the writer of it, Jonathan Larson. In college I did end up working in Off-Off Broadway, which, at the time of writing this, I’m still working with. I did take technical theatre as my elective, so I did get some of the nuts and bolts (literally, we were building massive sets) of the behind the scenes action. I never actually did theatre, despite going to an art school, because at the art school I went to you really couldn’t do anything outside of your major. ![]() ![]() I’ve been a theatre kid ever since I was twelve years old and saw the tragic 2012 version if Les Misérables on the big screen for the first time.
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