tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post5247394511684810700..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: A Musical Interlude #2Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-35126352987228871892009-10-22T00:33:30.258-04:002009-10-22T00:33:30.258-04:00Ah Myth, too cool, & it makes perfect sense no...Ah Myth, too cool, & it makes perfect sense now. Many thanks!Who Am Us Anyway?https://www.blogger.com/profile/08260586634760800759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-32352239054744502102009-10-20T23:16:59.875-04:002009-10-20T23:16:59.875-04:00Unless of course it's Brad Pitt in Snatch wher...Unless of course it's Brad Pitt in <i>Snatch</i> where he's <i>supposed</i> to be unintelligible ...Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-89479060793255420432009-10-20T23:15:06.795-04:002009-10-20T23:15:06.795-04:00I think your transcription is actually pretty clos...I think your transcription is actually pretty close. I think the first woman says, "One more cut for you, dearie, and you'll be holding a spear."<br /><br />And Bessie Love says, "And one more crack from you, bimbo, and you'll be holding a lily."<br /><br />Which I think roughly translates as "If this show's director drops one more part of your dance routine, be-yotch, you'll be reduced to a nameless chorus girl part akin to the extra in a Shakespeare play who holds a spear at the back of the stage and says nothing."<br /><br />"And one more unkind remark from you, dumb blonde tramp, and I will murderize ya and you'll wind up in a funeral home with a flower representing death clutched in your embalmed hand."<br /><br />I think.<br /><br />My all-time favorite for impenetrable slang is in <i>The Maltese Falcon</i>: "Sorry I got up on my hind legs, boys, but you fellas tryin' to rope me made me nervous. Miles gettin' bumped off upset me, and then you birds crackin' foxy."<br /><br />Can't argue with that.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-79181980500059062272009-10-20T22:35:00.136-04:002009-10-20T22:35:00.136-04:00Thanks Myth! They’re all great tunes, to be honest...Thanks Myth! They’re all great tunes, to be honest. What a treat!<br /><br />Say can you decode the hepster talk in <i>Broadway Melody</i> at 1:33? I’m like, “and one more impenetrable insult from either one of you ladies and you’ll BOTH be holding an orange umbrella, whatever that means.”<br /><br />But it sounds like they’re saying:<br /><br />“One more cut from you and you’ll be holding a spear”<br /><br />rejoined by<br /><br />“And one more crack from you, bimbo, and you’ll be holding the lilly”<br /><br />?? :-)Who Am Us Anyway?https://www.blogger.com/profile/08260586634760800759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-9411559854988941692009-10-19T11:27:39.348-04:002009-10-19T11:27:39.348-04:00Bless you for posting some Nina Mae! She deserved...Bless you for posting some Nina Mae! She deserved so much more attention than she got.Flapper Flickers + Silent Stanzashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17519672156109642104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-5911345843223421092009-10-18T18:37:08.636-04:002009-10-18T18:37:08.636-04:00By the way, just for my money, I don't really ...By the way, just for my money, I don't really find early Hollywood musicals all that enjoyable in and of themselves, at least not until Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers arrived on the scene in 1933. The movies tended to be too static, too much just filmed Broadway performances, with poor sound quality. Some of that, of course, is attributable to the technical problems I've talked about in previous blog entries. But too much of it was a failure of imagination. I believe Rene Clair's <i>Le Million</i> and King Vidor's <i>Hallelujah!</i> prove that.<br /><br />Busby Berkeley helped inject some life into the Hollywood musical with some unforgettable choreography in such movies as <i>42nd Street</i> and <i>Gold Diggers of 1933</i> -- although even there, again strictly for my money, I think Busby tended to gild the lily and it's not as much fun as it should be. Kind of like a dessert that's so rich it winds up sitting in your belly like a lead weight.<br /><br />Astaire and Rogers on the other hand are still as light and frothy and intoxicating as they were seventy-five years ago.<br /><br />But that's just my opinion.<br /><br />I'll discuss both Busby Berkeley and Astaire and Rogers at some length when I get to 1933 or so (assuming I live that long).Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.com