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| Last Edit: singleticket 10:57 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 10:53 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - keikekaze 06:23 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| Huh, interesting that Pauline Kael thought that. The bar scene is a really masterful piece of filmaking, particulary the background direction and the placement of the camera, and it anticipates elements of Minnelli's staging of the scene at Maxim's in GIGI. I love the placement of the camera below the bar in the final shot of the sequence, as if the city is on a slope that tilts to the bar where New Yorkers dose themselves just to bear the crush of the city. On closer viewing, I'd say the writing of Jane is less than sympathetic. Jane is not even faking sympathy for her fiancee's best friends' alcoholism. Her complaint is that her friends now find his drinking "boring". But I can understand how her materialism might also be laced with a certain contempt for the urban woman who has her own agenda and isn't waiting at her spinning wheel for her eternal mate. There's another figure that I find a little disturbing in the final shot of the bar scene: a bespectacled gentleman with what reads to me like a Jewish nose who is particularly loud and is barking something about "security". He seems to be there as the final straw to break Mr. Kelly's back and to send him rushing back into the monoculture of Brigadoon. The musical feels very Brexit to me. |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:48 pm EDT 03/10/19 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:47 pm EDT 03/10/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - singleticket 10:53 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| Why not an Italian or Greek nose? Hmmm, there was this cabaret in Berlin which seemed like a gay old place until the MC started to make fun of some his fellow countrymen... That how some of this shit starts, very small, and it must be called out. |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:00 am EDT 03/11/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - PlayWiz 11:47 pm EDT 03/10/19 | |
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| Why not an Italian or Greek nose? Definitely, either could also read as ethnic and urban. The point is that the musical has some very anti-urban, anti-melting pot drives to it... meant for the tired businessmen of the urban melting pot. That how some of this shit starts, very small, and it must be called out. I don't think anti-Semitism starts with someone on ATC pointing out what seems to them like a very soft anti-Semitic trope in a movie from 1953. |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:58 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - singleticket 10:53 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| a bespectacled gentleman with what reads to me like a Jewish nose Really? Was that necessary at all? Congresswoman Omar, I presume? :-( (At least we agree about Jane's demeanor in the scene, for what it's worth.) |
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| re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 09:15 am EDT 03/11/19 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:11 am EDT 03/11/19 | |
| In reply to: re: BRIGADOON on TCM; I figured out its weak spot - Chromolume 10:58 pm EST 03/09/19 | |
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| Not a fan of Congresswoman Omar but her critics are going to have to listen to more of her and others in the future unless they can find Brigadoon. (Glad we agree about Jane's demeanor.) |
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