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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: richmurphy 09:39 pm EST 11/02/15
In reply to: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - DCollingwood 09:20 pm EST 11/02/15

This might make the oddest double feature of all time, but two movies not on your list come to mind:

MY FAIR LADY - The new Blu-ray that just came out last week, with its restored image and especially its awesome soundtrack, is a revelation. Watching the film for the umpteenth time, I had more appreciation for some of director George Cukor's choices. In hindsight, keeping the musical "indoors" (even for the abstract Ascot race scene) was brilliant. The show didn't need "opening up", as movie musicals often try to do. Audrey Hepburn didn't do her own singing, true, but she acted the hell out of the part. Who WOULDN'T think that she was a princess at the ball? (Rex Harrison, of course, was peerless as Higgins).

SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER AND UNCUT - Without its songs, you have a hilarious if profane comedy. With them, you have an early example of the meta-musical, with references from OKLAHOMA! to LES MIZ. And the songs are catchy, witty, and fit into the plot.


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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: lordofspeech 12:45 am EST 11/03/15
In reply to: re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - richmurphy 09:39 pm EST 11/02/15

Just re-read the second Josh Logan bio. It seems shooting MY FAIR LADY on the back-lot was an imperative for Jack Warner when he chose a director. (Logan wanted to shoot on location in England and was nixed. So, when he pitched himself for CAMELOT, he agreed to shoot it on the back lot. There was a financial kerfluffle, combined with Vanessa's not being available till the fiscal year was up, which made Jack Warner concede shooting locations in Spain with Franco Nero before the fiscal year was up, but the initial choices for directors of both these Lerner-Loewe works hinged on shooting them on the back-lot.)


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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: KingSpeed 12:37 am EST 11/03/15
In reply to: re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - richmurphy 09:39 pm EST 11/02/15

South Park movie is a top 20 movie all time


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