Clint Eastwood

Brings Jersey

Boys to FilmBy Midgie Standridge

From a smash Broadway

musical to now a movie, Jersey

Boys has been everywhere.

In a recent article by

Entertainment Weekly, reviewer

Chris Nashawaty, takes the

reader through the film

adaptation.

The show chronicles the real life

rise and fall of the all male

group, the Four Seasons, four

“crooners” from the mob scene

of 1960’s New Jersey.

The group cranked out many

hits in their rise to stardom

including the songs, “Sherry,”

“Walk Like a Man,” and “Big

Girls Don’t Cry.”

The songs were extremely

popular and what made them

stand out from the rest of the

songs produced and recorded

during that time was Frankie

Valli’s voice- a high pitched,

vassal, falsetto.

Clint Eastwood decided to do

the honors of morphing this

song and dance Broadway

musical into a Hollywood

biopic.

In his adaptation, Eastwood

casted John Lloyd Young as

Valli. Many people thought this

was pretty close to perfection

on the casting front.

This is no surprise as Young

won a Tony in 2006 for his

portrayal of Valli. When he

opens his mouth, you believe

you’re listening to the real

deal. For his fellow Four

Seasons, they are all equally

spot on.

Eastwood’s film making is

linear and straight to the point

which is one of the reasons

why audiences like his films

and understand them.

Eastwood projects a

“predictably linear through

line” telling the up and down

story of the band’s success

and fall. The film stays true to

the musical and audiences

should feel the same joy and

excitement hearing all of the

old classics from the Four

Seasons on the big screen.