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Please someone tell me this isn't a cross between Trumpet of the Swan and some 1940s musical....
And the fact that the parents are named Memphis and Norma Jean...seems suspicious...gentlemen prefer blondes that step on their blue suede shoes??
It would be kind of morbidly strange to hear the crocodile man still "living on"...
I saw the preview for DreamGirls and thought it was a film about Diana Ross and the Supremes. It seems the group is fictitious, but in a way, I think the film really IS about the whole Mo-Town phenomenon, and black/white relations in the music industry.
Shut Up and Sing looks as if it might be interesting from a musical point of view, but looks incredibly pretentious. You poor persecuted artists...how much did your career really suffer from your anti-Bush remarks?
The funny thing is that if they had been in ANY other genre (except maybe perhaps CCM) they would have been loudly applauded and canonized. Perhaps that is the Dixie Chicks' point. Maybe they want to steer country music away from the "God, Country, and Mom's Apple Pie" connotations it currently possesses. But would country still be country? Or radical folk hippie music? :)
...Vigilantes of Love is severely distracting me from doing a response paper on global hip-hop...
Posted by funke at 17.11.06 14:45 | TrackBack | Posted to Film & TelevisionI'm going to try to talk my parents into seeing it with me next week.
Seeing that Beyonce herself is in D.G., I'd say it's more a commentary on the breakup of Destiny's Child played off as a retelling of the Diana Ross and the Supremes story (which is deliberate, since DC was often compared to the Supremes).
Posted by: Evan Donovan at 17.11.06 23:12That's true. I was talking to my prof about the film and she agreed with me about the Diana Ross spin, but I like the extra layers the DC angle brings. I am definitely going to have to see it now.