A friend and I recently got into an arguement over Mimi's death. I say she needed to live, my opponent says she needed to die. I remember seeing a great website a year ago (when movie came out) that explained why Mimi needed to live, how it was symbolic, how it proved the theme etc. Does anyone know of this site (or any like it)?
Or, can you explain why she needed to live or die in your opinion?
Thanks
2006-11-29 10:33:18 · 5 answers · asked by Ashleigh 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
What my fellow responders are forgetting is that Mimi will indeed still die. In case you'd forgotten, she has AIDS. Her lucky extra time drives home the message of "no day but today," live while you can, for tomorrow you die.
2006-11-29 11:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rent is based on the opera La Boheme in which Mimi dies in the end. In Rent, Angel dies but Mimi lives. I've long assumed this was to give the audience a happy ending, which is the norm for musicals with rare exceptions (ex. West Side Story).
2006-11-29 16:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by Curiosity Seeker 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mimi needed to die to illustrate the futility of youth and ambition as a cureall.
2006-11-29 11:16:43 · answer #3 · answered by teni3e 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
both. maximum individuals of the musical is making a music, yet there are a large style of extreme scenes and puzzling circumstances that require sturdy appearing in case you want your target audience to understand your personality properly. you are able to continuously look at the broadway teach; besides the actual undeniable actuality that that is now no longer on Broadway, there's a recording of it on DVD, and that i imagine it would want to also be on youtube.
2016-10-07 23:37:25 · answer #4 · answered by schwein 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she needed to die in Rent for the very reason that she died in La Boheme.
2006-11-29 10:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by Clarkie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋