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Post by augiesannie on Jan 16, 2022 21:39:48 GMT
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Post by indigoblue on Jan 16, 2022 23:51:45 GMT
I like the allusion of the Captain becoming drawn in from his position of distance and isolation, to the (musical) harmony of the family by Maria's enthusiasm for singing.
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Post by reverendcaptain on Jan 19, 2022 20:40:00 GMT
I like that it points out that the music in TSOM is integral to the story, so it doesn't have the random bursting into unified song and dance that most musicals have.
I also like that it points out that the puppet show is really silly (because it is), but that the harmony is so awesome in the song that the whole scene works. (Way to go Julie!)
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Post by indigoblue on Mar 4, 2022 12:04:59 GMT
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Post by indigoblue on Mar 30, 2024 0:17:00 GMT
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Post by reverendcaptain on Apr 18, 2024 18:56:46 GMT
It says I have to pay to get Financial Times to read this one. What was the just of it? Any new info? |
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Post by indigoblue on Apr 24, 2024 22:49:13 GMT
Oh, sorry: it was a well-written, witty analysis of CP's extraordinary capabilities as an actor, to seem at one time distant and maybe even evil, while at the same time still being engaging and human...I'll see if I can dig up the article through another means to give you a flavour of their turn of phrase.
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Post by indigoblue on Apr 30, 2024 23:16:13 GMT
I write below the best of the observations about our man in the above article:
Christopher Plummer was a spell-binding actor who could swagger whilst standing. As Georg von Trapp, Plummer was crackingly good; who else could have been so handsome yet so hard-headed, so unbending yet so suavely sarcastic, so soft-spoken yet so imperious? Who else could have been so believable, never mind likeable picking up that ridiculous guitar and singing that ridiculous song?
I admired CP as he aged into spry, sly devil-ex-machina roles like in Remember (2015), Beginners (2010), or All The Money In The World (2017). In this last, as the mean old miser Getty, he was Emperor Commodus as a senior citizen megalomaniac. He was Captain von Trapp, the handsome killjoy now grown old, less matinee idol, certainly less Rogers and Hammerstein; yet richly endowed, with all the shades and shimmers of age's invocations. His Getty is manipulative, ruthless and compellingly vulnerable. The Getty face is lined like a road-map with the frowns, glowers and imperial sarcasms that traversed it for a lifetime. Plummer is true to it all.
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Post by augiesannie on May 2, 2024 12:02:56 GMT
this is so great, indigoblue. It reads as something CP himself might have spoken, nay, orated, from the stage! |
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Post by indigoblue on May 17, 2024 23:23:43 GMT
'A senior citizen megalomaniac'!
Wonderfully written, and I love the idea of two of his best roles being of one and the same person, divided only by time.
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