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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash hit Hamilton is now on Disney Plus in the form of a theatrically-filmed recording of the production, which dramatizes the life and death of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton.
Beloved by critics and audiences around the world, and without a doubt one of the most successful plays ever, Hamilton tells its little known yet historically-impactful story with tons of originality and flair, boasting exceptional music, acting and production. Thanks to its incorporation of hip-hop and more modern dance styles, there’s a tremendous amount of energy coursing through the play and its an energy that rarely lets up.
In fact, according to star Lin-Manuel Miranda, if Hamilton had been written as a traditional play, it would’ve taken significantly longer to tell its story.
“It would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you’re writing a typical song — that’s maybe got 10 words per line,” he said. “Whereas here we can cram all this shit in all the margins.”
But Hamilton is not a traditional play and it packs in more words-per-minute than any other production. And if you’ve seen it, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
FiveThirtyEight.com has crunched the numbers and found that Hamilton crams 20,520 words into its 2 hour and 23 minute runtime. And if you do the math, that works out to 144 words per minute. For comparison’s sake, the play in second place is Spring Awakening with 77 words per minute.
Of course, there are a couple of, let’s say, slower songs in Hamilton, with King George III being responsible for some of the less fast-paced tracks. And according to FiveThirtyEight, the fastest songs have nearly 200 words per minute while the slowest only have about 64 to 80 per minute.
Still, even when it slows down a bit, there’s a palpable energy that runs throughout all of Hamilton and it’s an exceptionally well produced and written production. And if you’ve never seen it, you can now find out what all the fuss is about by heading over to Disney Plus.
An awfully underrated horror movie called Splice currently ranks as the 9th most-watched film in Netflix‘s entire library today. Why is this pic attracting such massive audiences, though? Is it gaining in popularity simply for being featured on the streamer’s top 10 list, or does it possess some inherent quality that needs excavating?
Directed by Vincenzo Natali back in 2009, the film follows a group of geneticists hoping to enter the annals of history by successfully splicing together human and animal DNA and thus creating hybrid lab rats. Starring Adrien Brody alongside Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac, the premise alone is enough to make you feel uncomfortable and despite some mixed reviews upon release, it’s a smart, well written and at times truly terrifying flick that doesn’t get anywhere near as much credit as it deserves.
Splice belongs to a horror sub-genre known as body horror. Popularized by filmmakers like David Cronenberg, these stories see characters permanently transform into hideous creatures. Though the genre has been kept alive by contemporary titans like Rick and Morty, who parodied its style in the episode “Rick Potion #9,” its roots are actually much older.
In fact, body horror stories are pretty much as old as civilization itself. The Golden Ass, which served as a major inspiration for Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove, tells the story of a man transforming into, well, a donkey. This particular tale was written by a dude living in the Roman Empire, and he set the trend for such stories thereafter.
It wasn’t until quite recently that bodily transformation began to be depicted as dark and twisted, though. Texts like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis featured characters whose physical changes were rendered as nothing but grotesque. Sometimes, their unappealing appearance would reflect their rotten character. At other times, it would simply be a stroke of bad luck.
Horror movies have become increasingly popular over the course of the pandemic and according to one recent study conducted by a University of Chicago alumnus, people who like scary films are better equipped to deal with crises on a mental level than those who don’t. So, if you’re feeling stressed, watching something like Splice on Netflix may actually do you some good.