Evita/YMMV

• Adaptation Displacement: Evita began as a 1976 concept album.
• Awesome Music: "And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)"; "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" and the Ominous Spanish Chanting that follows.
• Non Sequitur Scene: "Another Suitcase In Another Hall", a song sung by Juan Peron's just-ejected mistress, which serves seemingly no purpose in the play plot-wise.
  • It's averted in the movie, as the song is given to Eva.
  • From a technical perspective, though, it does serve a purpose by allowing the actress playing Eva to rest before one of the show's most demanding numbers, "A New Argentina."
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Averted. The movie was expected to be very popular in Argentina, but it was received with protest and indignation about the heroine's portrayal.
  • Some think that the movie portrayed Evita in a more positive light than the original play—Madonna made Eva look more like a vulnerable, noble-hearted, altruistic woman who believed she was doing good (albeit simultaneously manipulative, hypocritical and enjoying her fame, money and power a little too much), instead of some social-climbing, power-hungry witch.
• Genius Bonus: The Latin chant section of the song "Oh What a Circus," takes its text from the real-life Roman Catholic prayer, the Salve Regina. The original prayer contains a reference to the Biblical Eve, known in Latin as Eva.
• Narm Charm: "I want to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires -- Big Apple!"