| re: When 'Pirates' sailed onto the big screen (and back onstage) |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 02:55 pm EDT 09/01/20 |
| In reply to: When 'Pirates' sailed onto the big screen (and back onstage) - WaymanWong 01:56 am EDT 09/01/20 |
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I've always loved the PIRATES OF PENZANCE movie. It's such goofy fun and everyone in it is so good, even if Linda Ronstadt isn't much of an actress and some of the straying from the original material can be a bit much. It's such an unlikely project to have gotten made. I'd love to meet the person who greenlit it. I watched it again recently in HD at home on my big TV and was shocked in the opening scenes on the pirate ship that it was pretty apparent that Rex Smith was not wearing underwear. And his cock deserved billing in the movie. It's hard not to focus on it.
THE PIRATE MOVE is another story and I'd be fascinated to learn exactly how that happened, because it's so batshit crazy that I can't even imagine pitching it. It's like an adaptation of PIRATES OF PENZANCE grafted onto this modern story and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol. Some of the score is there augmented by modern pop songs. I mean...WHY?
And that this movie happened alongside an actual film adaptation of the Papp revival...what are the chances that either would get made, let alone both?! |
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