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Originally Posted by Vampyre
I hope to watch Muppet's Christmas Carol at some point soon, too. I grew up with that movie...
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Funny you should mention that film, Vampyre, since only this morning I was watching a small selection of its musical numbers on You Tube, my favourite being "Marley and Marley" performed by Statler and Waldorf (I take my hat off to those two old hecklers). There's a firm place in my heart for that movie too, I also plan to watch it in full nearer the appropriate time.
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Originally Posted by AerostarMonk
You may be the first person I've heard of who felt a little bitter after watching SITR, jj. I personally think it's a monumental movie and a feel-good one at that. To this day it never fails to put a smile on my face. Jean Hagen does give an oustanding performance as Lina Lamont, but I don't see her as the scene-stealer that many fans make her out to be.
I can understand how an antagonist who isn't an all out terrible person getting such a brutal comeuppance doesn't work well today. However in the context of the film and the time it was released I think it works quite well. But you know jj, I think because of your interpretation the next time I view this movie I can view it as a black comedy. Something that I'd never anticipate from a musical from '52. I'm always open to looking at films in new ways, and to that I sincerely thank you.
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You're welcome, and I do hope I didn't come across as too miserable in that last post. I take your point about films always needing to be viewed within the context of their time, but even so the way in which Lina was generally treated throughout left me with a fairly nasty aftertaste...in the end, I think she was just too easy prey. I guess I'll always have that advert for Golf (the car) they did a couple of years ago in which Gene Kelly, via the power of digital manipulation, turns his iconic rain strut into a surprisingly impressive techno-dance number(!) Anything that awesome is beyond ruination.
