Film version of "The Sound of Music." They did a terrific job of repositioning it for the film; it's much more powerful in this version than in any stage production, where it comes at the end of a cozy party in someone's flat. (And I don't normally like film "improvements.") Leni Riefenstahl would be proud. And remember this next time you are about to say "Sound of Music" is saccharine.
Dang, You're right, David. Senior moment. The difference I mentioned remains -- in the play it's sung by he seemingly nice folks in an aparment; the movie opens it up to the whole Third Reich (including the fellow who obviously doesn't want to get up.)
If anyone is nostalgic for the Nazi era, I recommend "To Be or Not to Be." The Jack Benny version is excellent, but the Mel Brooks version is a lot edgier.
Then there's "Watch in the Rhine" in which Bette Davis mostly knits socks, and a father has to explain the Nazis to his son, which Raber cannot get through without some snuffling, poor man.
I wonder if Bette was knitting in code: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/10638792/QI-how-knitting-was-used-as-code-in-WW2.html
Eeeek! Is that from the miniseries Holocaust? I still kind of remember that - Meryl Streep was so young.
ReplyDeleteFilm version of "The Sound of Music." They did a terrific job of repositioning it for the film; it's much more powerful in this version than in any stage production, where it comes at the end of a cozy party in someone's flat. (And I don't normally like film "improvements.") Leni Riefenstahl would be proud. And remember this next time you are about to say "Sound of Music" is saccharine.
ReplyDeleteThe song Tomorrow Belongs to Me is from Cabaret, not from a miniseries or The Sound of Music.
ReplyDeleteDang, You're right, David. Senior moment. The difference I mentioned remains -- in the play it's sung by he seemingly nice folks in an aparment; the movie opens it up to the whole Third Reich (including the fellow who obviously doesn't want to get up.)
ReplyDeleteDavid Nickol wins. Raber will not let me play this in his presence. Being a good German and all.
ReplyDeleteOh, Cabaret. Michael York :)
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is nostalgic for the Nazi era, I recommend "To Be or Not to Be." The Jack Benny version is excellent, but the Mel Brooks version is a lot edgier.
ReplyDeleteThen there's "Watch in the Rhine" in which Bette Davis mostly knits socks, and a father has to explain the Nazis to his son, which Raber cannot get through without some snuffling, poor man.
I wonder if Bette was knitting in code: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/10638792/QI-how-knitting-was-used-as-code-in-WW2.html