2001: Musical Scenes
Submitted by AAA on Wed, 10/10/2001 - 08:25
Tags:
- Brilliant
- Wig in a Box , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Tango de Roxanne , Moulin Rouge!
- Crying , Mulholland Drive
- Ruby Tuesday , The Royal Tenenbaums
- Your Song , Moulin Rouge!
- Origin of Love , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Like a Virgin , Moulin Rouge!
- Barbra Allen , Songcatcher
- Doo Wop (That Thing) , Our Song
- Very Good
- Head Over Heals , Donnie Darko
- The performance in the drawing room, Gosford Park
- Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend , Moulin Rouge!
- I Got an Angry Inch , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- On the Paddy Wagon, The Circle
- Death , Songcatcher
- Wicked Little Town , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Love Will Tear Us Apart , Series 7: The Contenders
- Good
- The Show Must Go On , Moulin Rouge!
- Tear Me Down , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Elephant Love Songs , Moulin Rouge!
Author Comments:
With two brilliant musicals in the same year, I decided that a ranking of their musical numbers was necessary. That's just how my mind works...stop looking at me like that.
Also, musical numbers have popped up in non-musical movies, those are included here.
AAA, I like you more and more each day.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
thanks l (or bangsie, I couldn't decide which one), that means a lot. :)
Interesting and good list idea. more movies need to be seen to give a bigger variety. The ones you have are impressive.
Thanks for the compliment. Well, since this is a 2001 list, naturally the musicals to the year dominate. I have made an effort to include other movies. But really, the musicals reign supreme in this category.
The performance of 'Crying' in Mulholland Drive is both intensely moving and insulting. What, in your opinion, is the viewer supposed to learn from it? (Sorry if this reads like an exam question.)
A good and fair question. The answer can be either one of these three things.
1) The song's lyrics (if one knows the english version) are meant to reflect Betty/Diane's feelings toward Rita/Camilla and her heart breaking decision.
2) It is meant to push the dream fully off of the deep end and show Betty's utter descent into madness.
3) David Lynch likes the song (he does, it has impacted almost every movie he has made, or so he says) and wanted a surreal scene at the end. This seems the likliest of the choices.
Thanks. No doubt these are good answers. I confess that I had in mind something I failed to connect to the plot, namely that the beautiful and moving performance of the song turned out to be fake: the singer is shown to be miming it. This is why I used the word 'insulting' above. I didn't connect the miming with the fake love that is part of the plot, but instead saw it as the director rubbing his audience's noses in the fact that there is something fake about the emotions a movie might cause us to feel. Probably I'm just too suspicious of David Lynch's attitude to the whole process of evaluating movies.
I suspect the mimed song is also a symbol for the first section of the film. It *appears* to be 'reality', but, in fact, well...
The emotions remain, but the names were changed to protect the guilty.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs