When it comes to transferring Broadway musicals to the big screen, Rob Marshall is the go to man. He did it successfully with Chicago and he does it again with Nine.
Federico Fellini told me that the theme of his life was "dreams are the only reality." "No one ever perceives the real world," he said. "Each person simply calls private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world."
As you sit with your wallet safely in your pocket, give a nod to that aristocrat of thievery, the noble con artist, up there on the silver screen. Where he belongs.