![]() Bookended with (painfully) expository, documentary-like narration, real-life media clips, and faux home video footage, the movie’s wobbly meta-textual barriers never coherently gel together. While Larson’s revolutionary contributions should not be soured, the plot of “tick, tick… BOOM!” is one virtually every creative type has told at one point: their own, and, as a film director, Miranda does very little to translate the self-absorbed material in any sort of cinematic fashion, outside a loosely defined and multi-layered structure. In other words: if you know the songs and faces on screen, you’re bound to enjoy it infinitely more than a casual movie-goer will. Not so surprisingly, it’s a movie made by theatre geeks, for theatre geeks, though feasibly to a severe fault. Bringing Larsson’s semi-autobiographical show of the same name to the big screen, “ tick, tick… BOOM!”-Miranda’s feature debut as a director-is a full-hearted love letter celebrating the aforementioned boy genius’ impact on musical theatre. “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda saw “Rent” on stage almost one year, to the day, after Larson passed away. Revered playwright and composer Jonathan Larson died of an aortic aneurysm on the day his now legendary breakout play “ Rent” was scheduled to have its first preview performance. ![]() Jon, the artistic prodigy in question responds that he’s about to turn 30, thus her term of endearment will soon wear out. “Hey, boy genius,” Vanessa Hudgen’s character, Karessa, says, strutting up to her friend.
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