Hamilton Movie Analysis

Hamilton Extra Credit Assignment
There is a vast array of things that I have learned through watching this film; from the writing, production, casting, and ultimately making it to Broadway let alone succeeding on Broadway. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s idea for creating Hamilton stems from an autobiography he read about Alexander Hamilton while on vacation. Flash forward to 2009, Miranda sings only one song that has been written for Hamilton when performing at the White House. Motivation and the creative mind do not always go hand in hand when trying to create a musical, which Miranda found out the hard way. After two-years of writing for Hamilton, Miranda had composed two songs, so with the use of a periodic deadlines, the music was crafted and ultimately the play had gone onto production. The production process of making a musical was interesting to me from a business analytical perspective because for most musicals it is difficult to make it but even more difficult to stay. With Hamilton, there might have been a nervous fear that no one would want to see the musical, however the musical is sold out every time they release tickets to the public.
From the outset, Lin-Manuel Miranda took Alexander Hamilton’s tragic death and rather than telling a story of how he died, Miranda told the audience at the beginning that Aaron Burr was “fool who shot Hamilton”. The meshing of rap, hip-hop, and reggae mixed in with the historical facts and the outlooks that these influential politicians had on American life foreshadows modern day American life. Miranda’s education on how Hamilton reacted in certain situations as well as Miranda’s portrayal of him in the musical allowed the audience to understand where he was coming from in his