The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Former head of Disney Plus, This isn’t the first time that Disney is censoring content for its streaming platform. Directed by Thomas Kail. Disney Plus only contains movies up to a PG-13 rating. While there are many who’ve worn out the official cast recording in anticipation of their first viewing, plenty among the Disney Plus audience will be coming to “Hamilton” having had zero exposure to this Tony- and Pulitzer-blessed phenomenon. ‘Hamilton’ on Disney Plus: Film Review A snapshot of an earlier sense of optimism, Lin-Manuel Miranda's historical hip-hop musical offers fresh resonance for a divided America. The line goes “That was my wife you decided to / Fuuuu—,” which, of all the fucks Miranda chose to keep, is by far the most sexual. Technically more than one “fuck,” and a movie should receive an R rating. Manuel noted that the ratings board within the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has strict rules about how many times the use of a certain word, like “fuck,” can be used. What hardly anyone knew prior to the 2015 show’s success were the facets of Hamilton’s personal life that made him such a rich character: the unrequited love for his wife’s sister Angelica (Renée Elise Goldsberry), the way in which the death of his son Philip (Anthony Ramos) mirrored his own.Thanks to Miranda’s refashioning of history, Alexander Hamilton now seems like the American hero least likely to topple amid the recent efforts to tear down statues of figures now deemed “problematic” — and yet this telling conveniently overlooks Hamilton’s slave-trading activities, casting him as an early abolitionist.
Director Kail intermixes Steadicams and cranes with fixed cameras, ricocheting the audience from one side of the stage to the other, ignoring the 180-degree rule, and trying to find a slightly different approach for each number — which frequently has the effect of distracting from Andy Blankenbuehler’s choreography and the defining gimmick of the stage production: an elaborate double turntable, in which characters dance and walk in circles as they sing.The film aims to be more intimate (Jonathan Groff’s incredulous King George appears close enough to spot his spittle), but it frequently deprives audiences of the show’s ingenious spatial design. To better understand the situation, Neither of the two instances Miranda highlights above are sexual in nature. The rating board may allow more than one use of the word “fuck.” It’s all dependent on context. But MPAA has a hard rule about language: more than 1 utterance of 'F**k' is an automatic R rating. Through the combination of colorblind casting and an intricately rhyming hip-hop libretto, Miranda foregrounds the Latinx and African American representation all but missing from the standard curriculum. A “More than one such expletive requires an R rating ... even [if only] one of those words [is] used in a sexual context,” the certifications reads. Miranda rewrote the country’s origin story, recast its Founding Fathers not as self-serving white supremacists but as idealistic people of color, and remixed the nation’s musical identity — away from the classical influences of Sousa or Sondheim toward a more radical vernacular, that of hip-hop, which resonated with young people and shook up the Broadway paradigm.Here was a different kind of patriotism, one that projects a more egalitarian notion of “We the people” than the male-dominated Eurocentric version taught in schools. If the fucks, however, are being used to express anger, frustration, or for comedic purposes that don’t cross over into sexual territory, more than one “fuck” is allowed. That strategy may not be the most cinematic, but Kail and the performers knew the material so well by the time they shot that the approach slaps a certain energy back into the equation.A modern take on our collective, complicated history, “Hamilton” finds fresh relevance in the Black Lives Matter protests and this divided political moment. Overseen by Thomas Kail, who also directed the show on Broadway, this direct stage-to-screen version of “Hamilton” isn’t a filmed adaptation but a “live capture” — a dynamic record of the musical as it appeared in New York, featuring the original cast. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC.