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Activity 8: Film Review "RENT"

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I was raised all my life in the theater and I have taken lessons of everything that has to do with fine arts. Two of my passions are dance and sing, that is why my interest has been created for musicals. One time I saw this musical for the first time, I knew it has something special, but I was a little girl and I did not realized the meaning. Once I grew up and I could understand what was happening this musical become part of my life. The musical I love is RENT, a Broadway musical and Tony awards winner, that has been adapted in a movie. The genre of this musical is drama, musical, romance and I could say social issues. The story and concept was created by the actor, musician and producer Jonathan Larson, and also he was inspired by the french scene "La vie de Bohème" by Henri Murger , that has been also adapted to opera called "La Bohème" by Giacomo Puccini. The director and producer of the movie RENT is Chris Columbus and the screenplay was written by Stephen Chbosky. The movie was filmed on 2005 and they used the first cast from the Broadway musical. The principal actors are Anthony Rapp (Mark), Adam Pascal (Roger), Rosario Dawson (Mimi), Jesse L. Martin (Tom Collins), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Angel), Idina Menzel (Maureen), Tracie Toms (Joanne), Taye Diggs (Benny).

RENT is a musical from late 80's and the stating 90's based on the lives of a group of bohemians that live on East Village of New York City. They are struggle with drugs, AIDS, love and health issues, also they are protesting because a group of wealthy men want to demolish the buildings where they live. They are also trying to live their individual dreams and scape from those people who wanted to pull they back. Mark is a Jewish independent cinematographer who is the best friend of Roger and ex boyfriend of Maureen and during the movie he is documenting the lives of his friends, also he is the narrator of the story on the
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