RENT Question?

Question

For those of you who have seen the movie [not the broadway] RENT, can you please tell me the significance of Maureens Protest scene? I dont understand the dialouge or the significance of her "dream".

Answer 1

I KNOW!
Ok: She says....
She finds her self in a fake cyber type place....you see Benny (Taye Diggs) wants to make a cyberstudio in place of the apartments that the homeless people are living in. She says that it is filled with lies and rules and virtual life. She keeps saying there is one way out-a leap of faith and to jump over the moon. A leap of faith is a leap in belief and stuff. She wants Benny to change her mind....to go through a leap of faith. And over the moon means the only thing to do is defy him and do what THEY want to do. Her dream talks of a cow-Elsie. Elsie represents typical bohemain person. She says that in cyberland they only drink diet coke. They are basically saying they don'e have real regular life because Benny want to change it to an artificial unfree life with rules. The bulldog is Benny. He was once like them-- Bohemain and used to be best friends with Roger, Mark, Maureen, Collins and the rest of the gang. But he married Alice--the daughter of the people who own the apartment seciton thing. That made him in charge and he forgot his principles to get money and become a yuppie.Then, on the end, Elsie jumps over the moon and everything is regular again. When Elsie jumps over the moon, and goes against Benny, she is able to protest against him.

I love Rent! Hope I helped.

Answer 2

The significance generally was that the antagonist was draining their creativity dry and trying to milk them for all that they were worth.

Maybe?

Answer 3

movie sucked could not finish the movie

Answer 4

i never thought of the symbolism there