[HPFGU-OTChatter] Rupert/Dylan/dancing movies/Blues Brothers

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

"Lotta space in this mall..."

--- uilnslcoap <devin.smither at yale.edu> wrote:
{snip}

> on Williams's score.  Star Wars, Superman, Jaws,
> (Back to the 
> Future?  was that Williams?  that theme is really
> good whoever it 
> was) and Close Encounters were great musically. 
> What happened?
> 

Rush job, IMO.  After all, he had the music for the
Olympics to get done -and- the score for Episode II. 
I only caught on that it was Williams near the end of
the film, and then only because of the similarity of
the score to that of Episode IV.

BTW, does the Olympic theme strike you as being
terribly familiar?  If so, think about Handel's
'Messiah'....

> Barb, you should see this Japanese (I'm pretty sure
> it was Japanese, 
> anyone care to verify/correct me?) film called
> "Shall We Dance?".  
> You would love it.  I did anyway.  It's about
> ballroom dancing as 
> well.

Not to mention a *lot* of Japanese social taboos.

{snip}

> 
> Oh my goodness, Andrew, that is creepy.  My
> roommate's name is 
> Andrew, he occasionally signs himself as "Drieux"
> and he adores the 
> Blues Brothers.

Ermm...so long as he doesn't use 'Drieux, just Drieux'
in newsgroups, I'll humbly accept the flattery {cheesy
grin}.

Did/does he have a Creole girl as a lover as well? 
(Which is where I got my own variant spelling...)

>  I must say, I see a lot of where
> you and he are 
> coming from, but I think the movie has some pretty
> large flaws, and 
> is not the work of genius that you two probably
> think it is. 

Oh...from a filmatic perspective, it's probably
terrible.  However, being a blues fan, I watch it for
both the sight gags/puns as well as the music.  This
holds even more true for the wretched sequel.  I would
have been much happier if they had simply given us 2+
hours of the various folks just jammin'.  I mean
Clapton, BB King, Hooker...wow!

 
> Still, 
> just for you, "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got
> a full tank of 
> gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're
> wearing 
> sunglasses."......."Hit it."  No matter what I think
> of a lot of that 
> movie, that bit is classic.

Not to mention the one line near the end:

'Excessive force has been approved in the capture of
the Blues Brothers.'
> 
> Devin, who is posting to OT-Chatter for the first
> time

Welcome!

Cheers,

Drieux

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