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| Posted by: showtunetrivia 11:55 am EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - AlanScott 11:55 pm EST 03/08/19 | |
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| The Scottish Highlands, even today, are rugged and sparsely populated, and for good reason. They're not easily accessible; I suspect it was even worse in 1947. I would find it hard to believe (yeah, this whole thread is hard to believe!) that you could take a rental car and conveniently drive to Brigadoon. I figured Tommy and Jeff, on their first visit, had made some village their base for hunting/hiking, and stumbled upon the even more remote Brigadoon while trekking about. I'd forgotten it's nighttime when they go back ("Laddie, you woke me up!"), and that itself strains credulity. Sure, let's go looking for an invisible village in the pitchblack dark. "I just want to see where it was!" Tommy cries. How can he see where it was if it's the middle of the night? Okay, I revise my earlier ending. Somehow, for dramatic license, they find Brigadoon in the dark, and Mr. Lundie escorts Tommy into the mist. Jeff gets lost trying to find his way back to wherever they parked the car, miles and miles away, falls down a steep incline, and is killed. D.I. John Orr: Och, the puir fool of an American, he hit his haid on a stone. D.S. MacLellan: But where's t'other one???? Curtain. |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 01:22 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - showtunetrivia 11:55 am EST 03/09/19 | |
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| "I'd forgotten it's nighttime when they go back ("Laddie, you woke me up!"), and that itself strains credulity. Sure, let's go looking for an invisible village in the pitchblack dark. "I just want to see where it was!" Tommy cries. How can he see where it was if it's the middle of the night?" Are we sure the script indicates that it's nighttime in Jeff and Tommy's world when they are actually back on the old site of the village? After all, we're told that the villagers go to sleep for 100 years every "night," so that would certainly include 100 years worth of daytimes in the real world :-) |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:32 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - Michael_Portantiere 01:22 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| The published script says, "Three nights later." I suppose it could be played in the daytime, in which case Mr. Lundie could say, "Och, when you've been sleeping for even just a month or two, the light really hurts your eyes when you get up." :) | |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 01:35 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - AlanScott 01:32 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:08 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - showtunetrivia 11:55 am EST 03/09/19 | |
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| "(yeah, this whole thread is hard to believe!)" LOL "Jeff gets lost trying to find his way back to wherever they parked the car, miles and miles away, falls down a steep incline, and is killed." Double LOL :) When I was writing my previous post, I was thinking, "They manage to find where Brigadoon was in the middle of the night? I never thought about this before." Since they don't seem to be carrying suitcases (or at least the script doesn't they are), you're probably right that they did check in somewhere. :) Or they left them in the car they parked . . . somewhere. Poor AJL. What would he think of this discussion? |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 01:43 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - AlanScott 12:08 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| He'd say, "You're a bunch of obsessed, detailed-oriented nerds, but you helped pay all my alimony bills for years, so I'll keep quiet while you over-analyze the ending to my innocent little fantasy musical." Laura |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:55 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - showtunetrivia 01:43 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| Or - I'm sure I've told this story out here before...a friend of mine who was a director and theatre professor used to have fun talking about lyrics that he felt made no sense - one of his favorites was in "To Life," where the men sing "May all your futures be pleasant ones, not like our present ones" - which is a bit of a logical mess if you really think about it. The inference is clear, but the idea of "present futures" is a bit out there lol (though I can see how it does make some sort of sense in a way - but the lyric goes by too fast to really think it through. I think what we pick up in the moment in "present lives" as opposed to "what we think our futures are from our present perspective.") Anyway, he had a chance to talk with Harnick once (who is, from my own short chance to meet him, one of the more gracious men I've ever met) - and he dared to ask him about that lyric. Harnick's response - "I wrote that??" ;-) ;-) |
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