Is Hamilton a good movie? Our Hamilton movie review explains how Thomas Kail’s close-ups, editing and original Broadway cast transform the stage musical into an intimate, emotionally powerful Disney+ film.
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Explore the Hamilton musical characters and how George Washington, Eliza, Angelica, Thomas Jefferson, King George, Maria Reynolds, John Laurens, Philip Hamilton and the supporting ensemble shape Alexander Hamilton’s rise, downfall and legacy.
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Is Hamilton a tragedy? Mary and Blake examine the musical’s rise-and-fall structure, Alexander Hamilton’s fatal flaw, Burr’s role as narrator, the meaning of throwing away his shot, and how Eliza transforms a devastating ending into a story about legacy.
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Is Hamilton historically accurate? Yale historian Joanne Freeman joins Mary and Blake to explain what the musical gets right, where it takes dramatic liberties, and what the real Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Eliza, and Angelica were actually like.
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