| re: COMPANY Last Night (Long and Possible Spoilers) |
| Last Edit: Delvino 02:19 pm EST 01/30/22 |
| Posted by: Delvino 02:14 pm EST 01/30/22 |
| In reply to: COMPANY Last Night (Long and Possible Spoilers) - sergius 05:46 pm EST 01/29/22 |
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| Numerous Lenk defenders try to make the case that "Being Alive"'s power is in the lyrics, the set of epiphanies ruminative, arrived at by a thought process dramatized in real time. They say good actors who sing are interpretative artists who serve lyrics and circumstance first; those words alone are Bobby/i's poetic mediation in a final quest for intimacy. Yet I was only half glib in saying "But it's not 'Send in the Clowns.'" Arguably, the catharsis is carried by the sweep of music, the soaring melody in service of the character as much as the singing actor. It's a moment of synergy between expressed thought and music's mysterious emotional weight. When a performance can't nail the cathartic rise, it's at best approximated. One can argue that Lenk's approach is thoughtful, disciplined, sophisticated; yet it's hard to justify as the final, necessarily explosive revelation that pushes both character and story across the finish line. |
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fully agree - Chazwaza 03:34 pm EST 01/30/22 |
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Bobby's written to have his/her acting work IN the song, if you can't sing it, it doesn't play as it needs to - Chazwaza 03:36 pm EST 01/30/22 |
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