So I was watching The Sound of Music--I have a serious weakness for old musicals, Meet Me in St. Louis for Christmas, Gigi and Easter Parade for spring, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers anytime and My Fair Lady for dresses--and I heard lines that I never quite heard before. I am not wild about 'My Favorite Things'. I love the goat song, the tea, the jam, and my grandmother's favorite, "Climb Every Mountain' but not the raindrops on roses. Maybe it is just too familiar--brown paper packages, whiskers on kittens yadda, yadda. It isn't that I don't love those things it is just to peachy and creamy, sugary cutsey in places.
And then I listened this time. Kurt, yes I know their names, shouts out, "A good sneeze' as his favorite thing. A good sneeze is good. And not cutsey. So listened to the whole movie and several times I was stopped by a line more sardonic and adult than I was expecting. Funny what happens when you switch your ears on. Good writing turns up in the weirdest places.
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So true -- writing does pop up in the weirdest places.. like in Cincinatti... at WKRP.
ReplyDelete'i swear i thought turkeys could fly..."
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ReplyDeleteI love rediscovering movies from Hollywood's "Golden Days"--especially the musicals! The scripts are truly witty. They put modern screenplays to utter shame.
The Sound of Music was a childhood favourite of mine, but I'll never forget the night I watched it for the first time as an adult. I had little epiphanies similar to what you describe here.
PS--I found you on the Blog Hop! =)
thanks for stopping by! it is strange when you think you remember a book or film and it turns out you don't!
ReplyDeleteO I am SO in the mood to watch that now.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the "I am sixteen going on seventeen" song.
love the dress she wears for that song!
ReplyDeleteI too enjoy many of the old musicals! A couple other favs are South Pacific (Some Enchanted Evening & Happy Talk) and Thoroughly Modern Milly (Jazz Baby). Camelot, Oklahoma. Okay..enough said. They do change, or our reactions change to them, as we grow "more mature" (didn't want to say older).
ReplyDeletei totally agree on both counts! our reactions do change and 'more mature' sounds much better!
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