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| yambu |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:37 pm |
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I'd have liked to see the Von Trapps abducted from the Alps by benevolent aliens and then Maria and Liesl are induced to bear alien-human hybrid babies which are able to grow up and use their special powers to bring the people of Earth and the alien world closer.
But I didn't really mind the way they chose to go with it. Some of the musical numbers are quite catchy and I've been known to hum them or even sing softly when no one is looking.
And now back to current films and the onward march of cinema, both domestically and abroad. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:28 am |
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Actually I've never seen all of The Sound of Music.
I've caught bits and pieces here and there, including 20-30 minutes when I slept over at a sorority at the University of Michigan once. I believe it's a fairly long film, so I've probably seen around half. I almost certainly have the Dvd here somewhere. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:36 am |
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The only time I saw The Sound Of Music was when it was playing on a TV screen in an Asian massage parlor on Manhattan's west side in the early 1980s. I had gone for some therapeutic massage but ended up with a "local" instead. The young Korean hookers were sitting in front of a TV while watching TSOM under the watchful gaze of their madame.
I went into my cubicle for my massage...which was purely therapeutic in the beginning. Eventually the masseuse started tugging on my cock and telling me how miserable she was working in a whorehouse. She punctuated her anger with violent tugs on my dick. My cock remained limp as I advised her, between teeth clenched in pain, to seek a different form of employment.
It was the least relaxing massage I've ever experienced. Now every time I see Julie Andrews swirling through the Alps my prick crawls into it's imaginary shell and trembles like a frightened bird. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:49 am |
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Marc--That's hysterical.
I undoubtedly have the longest history with TSOM. I saw it first on stage in its pre-Broadway tryout in New Haven when I was at Yale. This must have been 1959. The word was out before I saw it; this was the most ickily sentimental musical within memory. Therefore I was ready for something awful going in. What a surprise! Yes, the story was mawkish and sticky, but some of the songs were absolutely amazing. "My Favorite Things" is just simply a great song, particularly from a musical standpoint, and this has been borne out by the number of jazz recordings that have been made from it. "Do Re Mi" was a well-deserved show-stopper--manipulative and corny but flat-out great. These and some other decent ditties outweighed one of the the worst songs Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote ("So Long, Farewell"). "Edelweiss," which I've never much liked, was not yet in the show. Mary Martin was over-the-top sweet and "charming" and I didn't much like her performance, but the show was watchable and intermittently very entertaining. I went back and saw it again later that week.
But who knew?
When the movie came out, the Julie Andrews performance was such a huge step up from Mary Martin and the photography of the Alps so breathtaking that I more or less ate it up while certainly acknowledging its built-in flaws. But who knew it would become such a phenomenon? I still don't get it. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:41 am |
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| You know, Mary Martin just had to hate Julie Andrews. Martin turns down My Fair Lady ("those boys have lost their talent") and Andrews takes the role, becoming instantly a major Broadway star. Martin is offered the movie of Mary Poppins, she turns it down, Andrews gets the offer and takes it, becoming instantly a major movie star (a transition Martin could never make). Then Martin stars in the final Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, solidifying her reputation as the quintessential R&H performer, only for Andrews to do the movie and erase Martin's performance entirely. Just can't imagine there was any love lost there. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:39 am |
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John Coltrane's My Favorite Things, is great.
The lyrics of the song are not all that great but the tune is terrific. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 10:00 am |
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| That's true of most of the show's lyrics. Hammerstein was one of the greats, but he was very near death at the time the show was being written. Edelweiss has probably the best lyrics. But it's the strength of Rodgers music that makes the score work. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:25 am |
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marantzo wrote: John Coltrane's My Favorite Things, is great.
It's been covered hundreds of times. Supremes, Streisand, Tony Bennet, Herb Alpert, Barry Manilow. Versions show up on Christmas albums all the time:...door bells and sleigh bells and warm woolen mittens....snow flakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes...... |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:30 am |
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| The first time I heard Streisand's version, I couldn't stop laughing. I just kept picturing her staring in a revival of the show: Fanny Brice as Maria von Trapp. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:20 pm |
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Count me among the Coltrane version lovers.
Quote: It was the least relaxing massage I've ever experienced. Now every time I see Julie Andrews swirling through the Alps my prick crawls into it's imaginary shell and trembles like a frightened bird.
How DO you solve a problem like Maria? |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:23 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: You know, Mary Martin just had to hate Julie Andrews. Martin turns down My Fair Lady ("those boys have lost their talent") and Andrews takes the role, becoming instantly a major Broadway star. Martin is offered the movie of Mary Poppins, she turns it down, Andrews gets the offer and takes it, becoming instantly a major movie star (a transition Martin could never make). Then Martin stars in the final Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, solidifying her reputation as the quintessential R&H performer, only for Andrews to do the movie and erase Martin's performance entirely. Just can't imagine there was any love lost there. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:01 pm |
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I like "The Sound of Music" for what it is--a good-hearted movie with nice songs and pretty people and Nazis. Love Richard Haydn. And you can't beat that opening scene.
Christopher Plummer used to gripe that he hated the movie--I think he felt stereotyped by the character--but in his recent interviews he's talked about it more fondly, acknowledging its beneficial effect on his career.
By the way--R.I.P. Nora Ephron. Reportedly from leukemia. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:30 pm |
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If ever Plummer felt typecast in SOM, he should recall his roles in:
Syriana
A Beautiful Mind
On Golden Pond
Girl in the Dragon Tattoo
And about a score of other post-SOM's. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:00 am |
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yambu wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: You know, Mary Martin just had to hate Julie Andrews. Martin turns down My Fair Lady ("those boys have lost their talent") and Andrews takes the role, becoming instantly a major Broadway star. Martin is offered the movie of Mary Poppins, she turns it down, Andrews gets the offer and takes it, becoming instantly a major movie star (a transition Martin could never make). Then Martin stars in the final Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, solidifying her reputation as the quintessential R&H performer, only for Andrews to do the movie and erase Martin's performance entirely. Just can't imagine there was any love lost there. This is Joe at his best.
I'll second that. |
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