Blog entry 5
By Ye Jun Kim
When a show or anything that can be spread through media becomes popular, remixes and adaptations of the original piece emerge on the web. Similarly, the musical Hamilton has received multiple forms of remxes and adaptations.
One I thought was very interesting and unique was mixing the musical and another popular film to create a new work. More specifically, The mix between the Disney movie Mulan and Hamilton was very interesting. The author of this remix took the ever-so-confident characteristics that both exist in Lafeyette and Yao, and inserted the Hamilton characters in the Mulan settings.
The mix between the two pieces does not really help with making the story easier to understand, but I think that this allowes us to approach the characters in a more comfortable way. Since, for a lot of us, Mulan is a childhood movie, it is easier for us the connect with the characters in Mulan. However, Hamilton is about history after all, so it would seem harder to connect to and feel attached to the characters. By mixing the two allows us to look at the characters in Hamilton a different way, perhaps in a more casual way, thinking of them less as historical figures and more as people just like us.
I’ve mentioned this artwork in my Adaptation and Remix proposal as well, but I plan on using this as reference to create my rendition of Hamilton. Through looking at this piece, I was able to determine how I can go about working on mine and that I need to focus more on the characters itself than the event, since a lot of the times, the events are not as significant as the characters characteristics, especially if they are not the main characters.