John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the complaint seems to be not that the songs are '70s
songs, because they can't help being. It's that they
supposedly don't SOUND like '50s songs, and there I'll
certainly agree, although anybody who didn't live through
the era has a very skewed idea
At 8:55 AM -0800 2/19/07, Mark D Lew wrote:
If filtering the 1950s setting through a 1970s sensibility is a
purpose of the film, it's only a post-hoc attempt to make virtue of
necessity, sort of like turning Olivia Newton-John's character into
an Australian exchange student as a way to explain
At 5:49 PM + 2/19/07, Ken Moore wrote:
John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the complaint seems to be not that the songs are '70s songs,
because they can't help being. It's that they supposedly don't
SOUND like '50s songs, and there I'll certainly agree, although
anybody who didn't
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At 8:55 AM -0800 2/19/07, Mark D Lew wrote:
If filtering
On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:21 AM, John Howell wrote:
Just started watching the movie Marie Antoinette. The
illustration of wallpaper music constantly playing in the
background is quite telling, but the rock parts of the score strike
me as so totally anachronistic that they really turn me off.
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Feb 17, 2007, at 11:21 AM, John Howell wrote:
Just started watching the movie Marie Antoinette. The illustration
of wallpaper music constantly playing in the background is quite
telling, but the rock parts of the score strike me as so totally
anachronistic that they
Um, all of them?
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On 18 Feb 2007, at 7:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Which 70s songs are sung in Grease?
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Um, all of them?
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On 18 Feb 2007, at 7:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Which 70s songs are sung in Grease?
If by that you mean that all the original songs in Grease were written
in the 70s and therefore are 70s songs,
I wrote:
The songs in Grease are all anachronistic -- some more obviously
than others (i.e., the disco beat in the title song), but even in
those songs that are meant to evoke 1950's rock and roll, none of
them would fool anyone who's even passingly familiar with the pop
music of the era
The songs in Grease are all anachronistic -- some more obviously than
others (i.e., the disco beat in the title song), but even in those
songs that are meant to evoke 1950's rock and roll, none of them
would fool anyone who's even passingly familiar with the pop music of
the era into
At 8:07 AM -0500 2/18/07, Darcy James Argue wrote:
The songs in Grease are all anachronistic -- some more obviously
than others (i.e., the disco beat in the title song), but even in
those songs that are meant to evoke 1950's rock and roll, none of
them would fool anyone who's even passingly
On Feb 18, 2007, at 4:38 AM, dhbailey wrote:
I was under the impression that the complaint had to do with pop
songs not originally written for the musical Grease which were
widely known in the 70s which were included in the musical for
effect, and that no pop songs not originally written
On Feb 18, 2007, at 10:23 AM, John Howell wrote:
Version 1.0 opened in Chicago in 1971. A very revised version
opened off Broadway in February 1972, and moved onto B'way in June
1972, remaining in production for 3,388 performances before closing
in April, 1980. It is being revived as we
Lew wrote:
Some more obviously than others is a huge understatement. The
Bee Gees disco of the title song is horridly anachronistic.
Well, yes, but it's very clearly *supposed* to be that way. The film
*wants* to draw your attention to the anachronism of Frankie Valli
singing over a
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