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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben o'she good morning, much good morning.

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Speaker 1: Big couple of weeks, big blogbuster movies. Yeah, it's going

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Speaker 1: to just keep going all the way to Christmas as

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Speaker 1: we get into the summer blockbuster season in America. But

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Speaker 1: this one we're talking about today one of the most

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Speaker 1: anticipated films of the year, the adaptation of the hit

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Speaker 1: musical Wicked. Do you know how much money the Wicked

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Speaker 1: Musical has made at the global box office? I love

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Speaker 1: six billion dollars. It's billion since it's Broadway taboo in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three, so a lot of people love it.

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Speaker 1: You know, all the big songs like popular and defined

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Speaker 1: Gravity and it's the theater show is coming to Perth

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Speaker 1: I think in the next month. Yes, But the film

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Speaker 1: is out now, directed by John m chu who did

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Speaker 1: he did In the Heights, which was another musical adaptation

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that no one saw but

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Speaker 1: was actually really amazing, which is actually really good. It

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Speaker 1: came out during the pandemic and just it just was

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Speaker 1: one of those it got kind of lost in the

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Speaker 1: fusser on that. But so that's the movie. Can you

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Speaker 1: sum up a global pandemic like that? Anyway? Let's move along,

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Speaker 1: move along, move along, okay, And so so the musical

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Speaker 1: movie of Wicked stars Ariana Grande pop star as Glinda

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Speaker 1: the Good, and Cynthia Arrivo, who's Oscar nominee, as Alphaba.

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Speaker 1: Because this is an origin story of the Wicked Witch

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Speaker 1: of the West from the Wizard of Oz. You know,

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Speaker 1: so you're talking about one hundred and twenty five year

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Speaker 1: old kind of source material here and the Wicked Musical

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Speaker 1: kind of refreshed that reimagined it. So is she that's right,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Alphaba who's the green one, and Glinda the

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Speaker 1: Good dressed in pink. And so going to this, going

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Speaker 1: into this, like we knew that Cynthia Arrivo was a

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Speaker 1: great actor. She was in that biopic Harriet. She's won

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Speaker 1: a Tony, she's won a Grammy, she had that Oscar nomination.

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Speaker 1: She sees a legit, legit actor, and she brings that

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Speaker 1: to this role really, like you watch it go. This

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Speaker 1: is a serious dramatic performance here, even though she's a

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Speaker 1: green witch. And but the big surprise for me, the

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Speaker 1: revelation was that Ariana Grande is actually hilarious, ultimately funny.

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Speaker 1: I interviewed her, she wasn't that funny when I spoke

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Speaker 1: to him, Ty, Yeah, it was a love fest, like

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Speaker 1: you know, and this is this is this is a

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Speaker 1: movie about, you know, the relationship between these two women

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Speaker 1: who find themselves in this very difficult situation where the

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Speaker 1: society of Oz is under threat because of you know,

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Speaker 1: like these forces that are trying to divide and conquer

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Speaker 1: and maybe the wizard played by Jeff Goldblum is not

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Speaker 1: such a nice guy. You've got Oscar winner Michelle Yoh

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Speaker 1: as sort of the sort of the one of the

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Speaker 1: lecturers at a Hogwarts style school. It's there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of really Harry Potter vibes you're watching it. But fans

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Speaker 1: of the musical will be happy to know that no

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Speaker 1: expense was spared to bring this production to the screen.

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Speaker 1: Like this is the most lavishly produced big screen musical

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Speaker 1: in the history of cinema. Like we're talking two hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars they spent on it. There was one set

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Speaker 1: that was as big as two American football fields, if

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Speaker 1: you can imagine the scale of that, and so some

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Speaker 1: of these musical numbers you're watching it on the screen, going,

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Speaker 1: this has got to be CG effects because it stretches

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Speaker 1: as far as you can see, hundreds and hundreds of performers,

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Speaker 1: but it was all real live action, and they sang

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Speaker 1: the songs live, which just doesn't happen. So when you're

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Speaker 1: watching the movie, you seeing Ariana Grande belting out these songs,

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Speaker 1: you can see the muscles in her neck straining to

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Speaker 1: hit the notes, which is it's incredible, But it's a

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Speaker 1: part one of two, and that's one of the problems

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Speaker 1: of the film. It's you know, any time when you

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Speaker 1: have a movie that is split into two, the conclusion

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Speaker 1: Penny is not quite so satisfying. It kind of ends

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Speaker 1: where the musical hits intermission on that defining Gravity song,

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Speaker 1: which is an incredible musical number in the film, But

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Speaker 1: then it ends and you're just like, I've got to

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Speaker 1: wait till next year to see how this is going

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Speaker 1: to finish. I'm not a fan of the two parts,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not either, so I've got to kno it series.

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Speaker 1: I've got to knock it down a little bit for

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Speaker 1: it's like binge, yeah, you want to keep going, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, Well, how many pay no attention to the

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Speaker 1: man behind the cursions giving it? Yeah, Like in other ways,

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Speaker 1: It's a very very special film and certainly fans of

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Speaker 1: the musical will love it. I'm going to give this

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Speaker 1: one for four. Yeah, so are you, and you're knocking

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Speaker 1: it down. But that's how that's how good it is.

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Speaker 1: The production is insane. This this willredible, Like I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised that all off it wins six seven oscars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of technical technical, Best Self Design, Best Costume,

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Speaker 1: Like I think there's a really good chance Ariana and

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Speaker 1: Cynthia both get Oscar nominations out of this. I'll get

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Speaker 1: Globe nominations gets a lower Yeah. That trend of filmmakers

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Speaker 1: going back to actually putting real people in real sets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's really helped me. Very interesting. Yeah, thanks guys,

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Speaker 1: see you next week.