A Technical Review of WICKED! (Directing, Color & Art Direction)

[@isaiahdesmond]

great review! loved your mise en scene analysis 👏🏾

[@AlyxaHellman]

Thank you so much! :-)

[@SashaFierceBadass]

I did really enjoy all of it, but I might be biased since The Wizard of Oz and Wicked was a very big part of my childhood so I did not really care about color theory or composition (as I usually do with other movies)… either way I really liked your video!! Your analysis of everything is so good

[@AlyxaHellman]

I get you. If you just enjoy it for what it is, it’s a fun and well casted film (that’s how I felt with Challengers)! Happy you liked it 😊 And thank you!

[@josephgarner94]

Wow color and cinematography have a huge weight on your overall view of film. In fact, I was genuinely surprised at the end when you said we should definitely see it after you complained about it for 11 minutes 😅. You have every right to your opinions but if this movie wasn’t colorful enough for you, I’m curious what is? As far as color goes does it need to be the Greatest Showman, La La Land, or Willy Wonka otherwise it’s a bust? 😅. I just saw it in 3D and I was blown away by the vivid greens, pinks, saturated iridescent purples and blues, not to mention the literally rainbow feilds of flowers they actually planted and grew for munchkin land. I guess I’m just surprised this is a critique anyone had for this film.

[@AlyxaHellman]

@@josephgarner94 Yes, visual elements like color & the cinematography should have a huge weight on any film that’s adapted because the story is already guaranteed to be good. The only reason you’re changing the mediums is to now make it as visually best as you can, given the limitation of a Broadway stage. I think given the comparisons, it’s safe to say the film is objectively bleak-er, and not well directed for such a hyped about musical. But yes, I did say go see it because while it may be visually lackluster (in my opinion), it was funny, fun and obviously had amazing songs :-)

[@celiner7400]

I thought it was just alright. The rotten tomato score is too high lol not a big fan of the cinematography, lighting, and the singing. Couldn’t feel any emotion from the songs with how they sang them, especially defying gravity.

[@AlyxaHellman]

I totally agree!

[@MM-bw1lo]

Weird review who wants hot pink all over the whole movie. It's like you want a LaLa Land in a movie that's a movie that has been around for ages. Wicked was colorful af but you're tearing it apart on personal bias alone due to older content you saw in other musicals. As someone who's never seen the play, I enjoyed it because we've all seen the original movie and this isn't the original, it's an origin story to get you to towards the original. I can't wait for part 2 because that's when it really goes down. How about you make your own version, we'd all like to sit around eating popcorn and nitpicking it as well.

[@AlyxaHellman]

@@MM-bw1lo La La Land and the Greatest Showman are barely 8 years old and perfectly colored. West Side Story also came out 3 years ago. I wouldn’t consider those older, but to your point: yes old technicolor films - including the Wizard of Oz - are infinitely more colorful than Wicked. To my point, it’s not all about the color but it *is* all about the visuals, and they are objectively lackluster. I agree though, I’m excited for Part 2. It’s a fun story and as I said, I like the music!