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Rent Movie Soundtrack Review

The multiple award-winning musical Rent is
based on opera of Puccini, La Boheme. It hasSeasons of Love is perhaps the best known of
been playing on Broadway since 1996 and isall of the songs. Unlike in the musical, this
one of the longest running shows. In 2005,song opens the movie. A re-mixed version,
the movie based on Rent was released and,featuring the legendary Stevie Wonder, was
like the musical itself, has gained a cultalso released. The entire cast sings and the
following. The soundtrack album becamesong revolves around them trying to decide
available  on  CD  soon  after.how you measure a year apart from in minutes.
They calculate that there are five hundred
The story follows a group of eight Bohemiantwenty-five thousand six hundred minutes in a
friends living in modern New York over theyear and each suggests other methods of
course of a year, specifically 1989-1990. Itquantifying a year but reach the conclusion
is a heartfelt look at ups and downs of lifethat love is the one correct gauge of a year
and how the various characters deal within a life of a human. Seasons of Love is the
addiction, loss, relationships, housing, AIDSperfect opening and acts as a teaser to the
and  the  meaning  of  life  itself.rest  of  the  tracks  on  this compilation .
A number of the original songs were deletedThe original theme song of the musical, Rent,
during the movie adaptation and do not appearfollows as the film opens in the East Village
on the movie soundtrack in order to createof New York on Christmas Eve, 1989. Roger and
more space for dialogue and produce a moreMark are trying to avoid being evicted from
free-flowing plot. Some purists or Rentheadstheir previously rent-free apartment. Another
feel that the soundtrack is not completeoutstanding song on the Rent movie soundtrack
because of the removal of these songs. Foris the duet Take Me or Leave Me where Maureen
everyone else, especially those who have notand her lesbian lover Joanne are having a
seen the Broadway version, the movie is aquarrel at an engagement announcement party
brutally honest look at life with aspectshosted by the parents of Joanne. The local
that most can relate to. The Rent moviebar is the perfect setting for the energetic
soundtrack has the same rock opera feel to itrendition of La Vie Boheme. It captures the
as the original musical score and is fillednonconformity of the main characters, which
with 28 moving, uplifting and ultimately,is further emphasized by everyone dancing on
inspiring  songs.the tables.



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