The Fantasticks (1/10) Movie CLIP - Much More (1995) HD

[@BrieTaylor]

Did anyone else lose their shit at 0:58 when she was swinging on the gate? Cause I sure did.

[@peterlloyd5285]

Yeah, that was strange, coming in from the left like that....

[@sestoye]

The charm of this play was it’s simplicity. The boy and girl met and carried on their relationship across an imaginary wall. It was the delima that the fathers had to break the imagined feud so they could take down the wall and the kids could come together.

[@richardbernstein9215]

this song was one i sang to myself so often while growing up...i never wanted to be normal!

[@GariDLewis]

You too?????!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊

[@anneu53714]

@@GariDLewis Yes, me too.

[@lavalamp625]

this is one of the most awkwardly filmed and edited song sequences in a movie musical that I've ever seen.

[@jackdasef7367]

Some plays don't translate well to film. This is a prime example. The magic of the stage play just isn't here.

[@reyskywalker3735]

I feel like it could have been better adapted to the silver screen, but she seemed to lack the proper emotion and facial expression required to pull it off. And it's not just her visual acting that needs work, I know from personal experience that if you don't fully immerse yourself in the feelings of the song, it's actually difficult to even SING the song properly.

[@flanplan5903]

@@reyskywalker3735 I agree, and that is why I think it deserves a second adaptation!

[@jessehamm3573]

It's certainly a challenging task. I think it could be done, but the filmmakers here clearly did not pull it off.

[@steverobert1]

Cannot fault this movie it is pure magic and so uplifting.

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Whoever told her or let her twirl like a Disney princess during this song had no business working on this musical.

[@martinreyhan9155]

It’s a little masterpiece, a jewel of a film. It’s not the tried-and-true stage version, so beloved by the majority of its following. Given time, it will earn much praise.

[@anneu53714]

I'd like to know why it was set in the Mountain West. (Says someone who lives in New Mexico.)

[@rugburns0923]

I can hear a cut at like 0:07 bruh

[@benjaminmcelroy9264]

what the hell is this editing?

[@mgfoster9197]

Benjamin McElroy it was done by Francis Ford Coppola

[@jessehamm3573]

Perhaps a further indication of just how difficult it is to adapt this epic play into a film, here's another area in which the movie falls flat. The orchestration is lovely and Jean Louise Kelly is a fine singer, but with her roaming around the wilderness every which way doesn't replicate the sense of confinement she feels in the original musical. Here she is singing about how she'd "like to swim in a clear blue stream where the water is icy cold", and I'm like, "Well, there's a stream over there. Go nuts."

[@marlaynamaynard3019]

Why is she putting her hair on that rusty barbed wire?

[@rulonfullmer312]

bahahahahahahahaah

[@gracias.manana]

I think this is beautiful!

[@darthilli]

You need glasses!

[@idcifurcontagious]

uhm.....no thanks

[@chrishaines1677]

Should not have been made into a film. It lost the essence of the stage play.

[@HoneyMike]

she's fine as hell