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Blood Brothers is a fab show
Reply #3421. Sep 15 11, 3:24 PM
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| lesley153
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| I haven't seen Blood Brothers, but I've heard the plot, and I don't think I could sit through it. I hated West Side Story, and would cheerfully have walked out if my date hadn't been enjoying it, and I wanted a lift home! |
Reply #3422. Sep 15 11, 3:44 PM
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daymare
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I liked West Side Story until I found out most of the singing was not done by those in the movie.
I'd rather have an honest croak than a phony song bird.
Reply #3423. Sep 15 11, 4:35 PM
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| lesley153
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It wasn't even the singing, it was the plot - death and misery and more death - and the fact that the ostensibly cheerful songs had a grating hard edge that made them anything but.
There are enough people who can sing and act - Julie Andrews? Doris Day? - so I wonder why people who can't sing for toffee get cast in musicals. Same reason Dick van Dyke got cast as a cockernee, I suppose: box office. |
Reply #3424. Sep 15 11, 4:54 PM
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daymare
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I believe West Side Story was based upon Romeo and Juliet.
10 Things I Hate About You was based upon The Taming of the Shrew.
I prefer the originals.
Reply #3425. Sep 15 11, 5:11 PM
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| lesley153
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| Do do I - and yes, I prefer the originals. |
Reply #3426. Sep 15 11, 5:18 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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I don't mind variations on a theme. Works for music composition, works for stage/film productions. Lesley, wasn't it one of your guys who said "Variety's the very spice of life / That give it all its flavor"? :)
A work of art should be a jumping-off place, a springboard for further creation. "Derivative" is not necessarily a pejorative adjective.
Reply #3427. Sep 15 11, 5:25 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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That "gives..." I do know grammatical number.
Number and Number,
Oatmeal
Reply #3428. Sep 15 11, 5:26 PM
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| lesley153
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| Oh yes, so it was - it says here that it was William Cowper, not the William I first thought of. Variety is a wondrous thing but I don't know if he would have applied it to film versions of books and plays, or the remake of The Italian Job. |
Reply #3429. Sep 15 11, 5:33 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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It would have been anachronistic--or, rather, prescient--if he had.
Reply #3430. Sep 15 11, 5:54 PM
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| lesley153
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| So it would. I was hoping you wouldn't notice. :) |
Reply #3431. Sep 15 11, 5:57 PM
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Jazmee27
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Some remakes are better than others (the rest are downright sad-no, "sad" is the wrong word: pathetic is more like it)
Reply #3432. Sep 15 11, 6:43 PM
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daymare
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The whole thing could have been theoretical or obtuse but, as with many things in this world, it could also have been very limpid.
Reply #3433. Sep 15 11, 7:17 PM
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| lesley153
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Sidney Lumet's version of 12 Angry Men was a wonderful film - and it was a remake! Probably the proverbial exception that proves the rule about remakes being rubbish.
It's early for me - not yet three o'clock - but my shoulders are still hurting, and Lamp is calling. Or rather my nice bed is calling.
Anachronistic, prescient, pathetic, theoretical, obtuse, limpid. Think I'll take my dictionary with me. Night all. :) |
Reply #3434. Sep 15 11, 7:36 PM
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Jazmee27
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Night, Lesley
Reply #3435. Sep 15 11, 8:38 PM
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Professer
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rise and shine Lesley :)
Reply #3436. Sep 16 11, 2:03 AM
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| lesley153
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Good night - and good morning! Nothing to report... except that Beth has managed to post on facebook, and I'm having a haircut this afternoon.
Forgot the dictionary. Ah well. Self-improvement can wait. :) |
Reply #3437. Sep 16 11, 6:04 AM
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Jazmee27
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It's overrated anyway
Reply #3438. Sep 16 11, 6:14 AM
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| lesley153
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{giggles}
Thanks, you two. Nice clip!
Haircut soon. Back in a bit. |
Reply #3440. Sep 16 11, 7:31 AM
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