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SUCH A GOOD PROSHOT !! i normally have gripes when they change the camera/angles frequently bc i want to be able to see the whole stage as if i were at the theater, but. they did such a good job with it in this filming! the editing was so dynamic & in tune with the actors’ movements that it elevated rather than distracted

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

saw the hadestown proshot a few hours ago and my god the costumes.. like ive seen their basic shapes and colors in bootlegs before but the little details. persephone and eurydice’s matching dress trim, hades’s pinstripes being glittery, persephone wearing a choker in act 2, the feathers on hermes’s cuffs, the feather in eurydice’s hair, the fates having veils(?) of mourning on after eurydice leaves for the underworld, hades’s snakeskin shoes and cuffs, all the fates’ dresses having different patterns and harnesses on, orpheus and eurydice both wearing bandanas around their necks that eurydice loses when she changes into the workers’ uniform, orpheus’s clothes being so visually baggy and handed down

My favorite part of Hadestown is you come for the pretty music and the love story and then you get beat on the head repeatedly by the reminder that the rich use and exploit our bodies for their own gain and we'll never be free until we join together and rise up against them

[emerges from the movie theater covered in blood] yeah hadestown was really good