Dear Evan Hansen Movie Adaptation

Speaker 1 00:00:07 Dear Evan Hansen, a Broadway musical recently adopted for the screen has caused quite a stir due to its casting of actor Ben Platt as its leading role. Dear Evan Hansen centers around its titular main character of enhancing a socially awkward and anxious teenager whose lies about his friendship with his deceased high school bully spiral out of control. The Broadway show touched many hearts through its exploration of themes, such as mental illness, isolation, and coming of age. It premiered in 2015 at the arena stage in Washington, DC, and then debuted on the Broadway stage. In 2016, it went on to become a huge success and even won nine Tony awards. One of those awards went to Ben Platt the actor who originated the lead role and played Evan Hansen on stage from the years 2015 to 2017, his performance was highly critically acclaimed and let him to be the youngest recipient of the Tony award for best actor in the leading role in a musical as well as many, many more awards after the Broadway musicals, immense success in classic Hollywood fashion, it was announced in June, 2020 that the play would be adopted onto the silver screen with plot reprising his role as Evan Henson, while fans of the musical may have been excited though, somewhat reluctant considering plot's age when this news first dropped many were appalled. Speaker 1 00:01:26 When the trailer for the movie was released in May, 2021 plot, who is now nearing 30, stuck out like a sore thumb when trying to fill the shoes of a teenager, the makeup crew for the film attempted to transform plot into a high schooler by slaughtering his face and foundation using prosthetics and giving him a big curly wig plat even stated that he shaved his face three times a day over the course of filming to try and make his skin look smoother. And younger viewers think that these attempts actually had an adverse effect, however, and made plat look almost scary as opposed to youthful since the trailer dropped in may. So the films theatrical release in September until now the internet has been going wild over Platt's appearance in the movie plot responded to all this backlash by stating quote, where I not to do the movie, it probably wouldn't get made. This led to even further backlash against the plot. However, as it brought attention to the fact that his father is the co-producer of this movie and likely had a large role in his casting as the main character, I talked to joy Cho a BNN sophomore and a self-proclaimed dear Evan Hansen, enthusiastic about her thoughts. So joy, you actually got to watch dear Evan Hansen on Broadway. How has that experience? I really love, Speaker 2 00:02:42 Um, do you have any Hansen's one of my favorite musicals and that experience really helped me bond with my mom. And I thought that it was really special that a musical could do that for an entire audience. Speaker 1 00:02:55 How did you feel when you heard the player was going to be adopted into a movie? Speaker 2 00:02:59 I was super stoked. I thought it was going to be awesome, but I thought the movie didn't really live up to my expectations just because it was a little strange seeing Ben Platt act as a teenager while he was in his thirties. And it just seemed like the movie was trying really hard to, to mold him into this character that he really couldn't embody in the cinemas, even though he did a great job as the character in theater, but it just didn't translate well Speaker 1 00:03:28 Plots performance as a high school student was more believable when he was still 23 and standing on a stage far away enough that the audience could not count the lines in his forehead. But the general viewers verdict seems to be that the suspension of disbelief is simply impossible to translate to the screen. If the fact that you're a socially awkward teen is harder to believe than people randomly breaking into song. Whenever they feel any type of emotion, there may be a problem if you're interested in making your own judgements on this movie and Platts casting, dear Evan Hansen is playing in theaters now and will be released on Fandango after it's running the cinemas for WMUR news and party brought home.