| Exquisite film | |
| Posted by: peter3053 02:38 am EST 12/26/21 | |
| In reply to: re: "Chatty" West Side Story - Chromolume 10:52 pm EST 12/25/21 | |
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| I think the new movie is beautiful and deeply affecting, in spite of the slight disjunction between the more realistic dialogue and the still heightened musical material. I think one could count on four and a half fingers the moments that could be improved; for example, slightly sending up the start of "Maria", as if they didn't trust the material (yes, we all know the story about the writing and Robbins' response to it); and trying to create false tension at the start of "Tonight" by having Tony on the plank; Anita's slightly off emotional dimension at the start of "A Boy Like That" (although she made up for it in spades as the tears flowed - I just thought her anger at the start needed to be teary anger as well - she should be trembling with conflicted feelings from the start ... anger and grief altogether. Also, the pull back of the camera at the end of that number as the girls looked out was stagey, something the film avoided so well the rest of the time.) But the film was gripping and the tragedy terrible to relive. I thought "One Hand One Heart" and the setting for it, and especially her singing in it, was sublime. And all the ideas in the "America" sequence were startlingly to the point. And they did what I expected re "I Feel Pretty" ... using a word from the song in one of the department store advertisements to suggest where Maria got her added lyrical sophistication from in the number. (I thought the word would be "charming" ... it was another. So many wonderful and painful and powerful things ... you felt the power the show would have had originally. An intense and beautiful experience. And it's hard seeing it with a covid mask on ... wiping nose and tears gets difficult ... and nobody wants to be near a sniffle!!! |
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