What is Reddit's opinion of Hamilton: The Revolution?

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Back in 2016 I had to take summer school for the first time in my life.

Thankfully, the class I took (which was a surprise for all) was English, and my Favorite teacher, Dr. Cohen was teaching it. She immediately knew I would pass the class without even trying (I write like Hamilton, Non-stop), ;), and made me think I was going to have an easy summer with her. Welp, it turns out she gave me the keys to her car to take out a box of books for the class. When I opened it in the classroom, I was impressed, but weirded out!

This was the book!

Anyway, once seated and listening to her do her usual speech of how the semester will go, then, she takes out speakers and a CD! Lol I had never had such a weird experience watching her sing and teach at the same time, though interesting to learn about history in an English class.

Well, it was my introduction to Hamilton! I had to LEARN Hamilton for a full semester! We studied in-debt the lyrics, tying it to history, writing papers regarding the style of writing and the parts that make up the characters (simple English stuff), and we were forced to listen to all 42 songs in class. Not only did we study it, but we had to make rap songs ourselves in the same style he did, make speeches as King George and Washington did, and have to sit through class listening to both It’s Quiet Uptown, and Who Lives, Who dies, Who tells your story. I had never seen my whole class cry and sob all together, and it was a nice experience.

After that I found out she got the books from the production team, she asked them to have some for her class and they did give them to her! She knows Miranda, so it wasn’t hard for her to get the material for the class. I was the one who loved it the most and sure enough, I managed to get a 110% on her class (my previous best was 130% in English which even she didn’t know how I managed to do it lol).

Ever since then, I’ve listened to Hamilton every single day, and I enjoyed listening to it more than the film. The book itself is way more interesting than the film version, not only do you get the insight to every part of the songs, but the deleted songs and parts which have come to light thanks to the fans wanting them! Also the obvious mistake which is the reason Miranda wrote the book to begin with. (A line from Angelica lol).

Anyway, that is my story how I was forced to listen to Hamilton by my teacher. :P

It is funny, but I enjoyed the Hamilton Revolution book more than the film. The insight of Miranda’s brain and thoughts made the story more compelling as his life was put into parts of lyrics.

Not only is it more important to listen to the songs first, but there is more emotion, thought, and precision in the recorded music (found in spotify and youtube) than the actual film. This is because, obviously, it was live recorded. The movement and pauses create a different sense of storyline that has to match what you are seeing, though, the music by itself creates such imagery in your head.

As my film production professor always says, there is a reason why silent films no longer exist and radio still does. Sound is the most important part of a film, a film could be horrible but if the sound is amazing, it is capable of winning awards.

Listening to the musical by itself through spotify, as I do every single day lol, gives you the same effect as watching the film. In fact, you lose key moments watching the film since the lyrics are carefully written to stand on its own. Hence, the reason they released the recorded music FIRST.

The musical film has the same style as Daft Punk’s Discovery Album.

Every song covers a part of the story, just that in Hamilton, the lyrics stand alone compared to Daft Punk’s songs.

Nevertheless, the film is good, but not as good as the best thing you can own if you like Hamilton,

Hamilton Revolution Book

If you check out the comments on the song on http://genius.com/7860613 you'll see Lin confirms the homage and the call to JRB.

If you like this, check out the rest of the stuff for Hamilton on Genius. It really is amazing. Or check out https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Revolution-Lin-Manuel-Miranda/dp/1478913649 and get all of Lin's thoughts on the songs.