Yaaaaaaaaaaaay, an American musical! So glad I get to share this one with you. And it is good for y’all to see it, because this is one of many classic American musicals that influenced both Farah Khan and Prabhudeva in their work. For real, Farah even acknowledges this one in particular as one of her hidden tributes in “Dhoom Tana”.
The Pirate!
Judy and Gene Kelly movie, totally ridiculous plot and period setting, but it works because they are both so freakishly charming and talented.
At 11am Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and then y’all can comment along with me from there.
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Alas, we have man-earrings and no Popka to enjoy them ) :
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I love Judy so much! I never knew before how much I loved. her. I only saw the Wizard of Oz, and well, I was never the biggest fan of the film.
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YES! She is just magnificent when she’s let to be what she wants to be. Check out Meet Me in St. Louis and Easter Parade too.
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“How unspeakably drab!” *he sadly regards his choice of sash, which he clearly had thought non-drab*
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He is such a fragile little flower.
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hi
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David Garrick?! I truly have no clue at what century we’re supposed to be in anymore.
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They are going to be such a fun couple. And that poor acting troupe is gonna have to put up with even more drama.
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its so obvious that there on a stage set
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Very old school!
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That statue smashing was uncalled-for 😦
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It’s the Mayor’s house, we don’t like him.
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I was wondering the cost of all her destruction!
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I meant I didn’t think she should have smashed his head. I’m not cultured enough to consider the value of statues!
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His sash reminds me of my children’s costumes.
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I had thought perhaps the busts of Augustus and Caesar in her room were another pointer at wanting a wider and more adventurous world, but now that she’s destroyed all these other statues now I’m thinking she maybe just wanted a stock of ammunition close by her door.
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Of course she knew the only thing she had to apologize for was insulting his acting! Everything else just rolls off his back.
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Like a picture frame off his hard skull.
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I had forgotten there was music in this thing!
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Wait, are we watching how abusive relationships are formed?
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Nah, because she’s just breaking things, not hurting him. It’s more a temper tantrum.
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Not really logical that she is all of a sudden totally in love, but I’m very happy we got a Judy torch song.
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she hurt him and now shes sorry?
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She hurt him for real by accident! She didn’t intend that picture to fall down.
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Not only sorry, now she is going to worship him for life!
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Well, until they fight again over something like “should we perform on this town or another?”
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oooh – foreshadowing
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OmG they are so cute.
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Like two little puppies wrestling.
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East India Company! Hey, it’s an Indian film after all!
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“The mogul’s emeralds”!
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Isn’t it a pity Juhi and SRK are too old to remake this movie now? They have the same adorable charming vibe, right?
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I was just thinking of them too!
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Judy Garland always makes me think of Mumtaz. I think it’s their piggy noses.
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Judy’s costumes in this are all amaaaazing.
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The wedding dress is my favorite so far.
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Imagine a parelel world where this whole movie is the pilot for a TV series. Wouldn’t that have been amazing? Judy and Gene traveling through 18?? world having adventures and solving mysteries?
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Oof, lilac pants on the governor! A regrettable choice.
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Pardon me: his excellency the viceroy.
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A meaningful artifact? GASP!
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OMG, check this out!!!! Liza visited set while Judy was wearing her last outfit
https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B2%2F3%2F9%2F6%2F0%2F23960338%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D
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Awwwww!
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Awww!
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Macoco-Mayor is making himself so obvious, I can’t believe no-one’s asking him WHY he’s so determined to rush things!
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Well the “pirate” was stealing his fiance and ruined his wedding so perhaps his anger is understandable.
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Even more so, blowing his cover as a respectable citizen!
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“If you escaped I would have to consider myself a fool”….
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Okay, that one I know for certain: Egypt was only a khedivate between the late 1860s and 1914.
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You’re a fountain of historical knowledge! I thought they made up the word ‘khedive’. 😳
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LOL, it’s just for family reasons rather than any gainful study. My mother’s family is Egyptian and had to flee in the 1880s when the khedivate became a British satellite state and the Karaite community lost their dhimmi status.
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Trust the British to be causing trouble and strife! So much of learning history is just “Here is some Britishers acting like total horrors.”
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Despite only being there for a few decades, they managed to screw Egypt’s ethnic/religious equilibrium up pretty thoroughly. Busy beavers ( ; Though the really, really nasty stuff only came after the revolution with the Arab Socialist Union.
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What brutality a county can’t manage for itself in a thousand years, the British could generally bring about in 10.
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*handcuff toss* *immediate jazz hands*
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The jazz hands!
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This is not my first farewell performance but I think we can trust my honored guest in making it my last. HAHAHA HA HA HA
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Oh, this is one of my very very favorite Porter songs. Makes sense in the context of the film, too.
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Finally a good song, and the Nicholas Brothers, I’ve been waiting for them.
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I had even forgotten we were expecting them! What fun!
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WAIT this song comes from this movie!!!
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He is about to get hanged and hes happy thats weird.
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Not as weird as his puffball shoulder caps.
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Hats slightly too tall for curtains : )
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I”m a bit mystified on how this song is going to get out of hanging.
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Nephew A really really likes The Nicholas Brothers and will sit still and quiet to watch them. But then start trying to jump off things and over things as soon as the song is over. So it’s a mixed bag.
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My knees hurt after watching that.
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I gotta get me one of those magic spinning mirror things.
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Why does Judy have huge poofballs halfway up her skirt?
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The costumer LOVED puff!
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Bourgeois possessiveness, coming from a viceroy! 😀
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Contrasting the bourgeoisie with the aristocracy, I should think.
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Are they unpossessive? Or do they just exercise their possessiveness in a classier manner?
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The latter. The viceroy was excited for the last-minute show particularly because he considered it “high-class,” remember.
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ooooooooooooooooh, she’s gonna try to get Mayor to confess in order to win her over. I get it now.
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She’s gonna set her skirt on fire.
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A very legitimate concern before the advent of arc lighting. I have musicologist chums who work on 19thc. stage music and they never cease to complain about this or that score that was lost to a theater fire.
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It’s a waldorf set, no fake fire allowed. That is me making fun of forest preschool policies that only I know about.
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I would say “why is Don PEdro so obsessed with Judy?” but it’s JUDY! Of course he’s obsessed with her.
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Or is he more upset at somebody else coopting his fame as a brigand? That was how I read it, but I’m also known to be weirdly immune to the charms of Judy Garland.
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DO you not see her as a clown?!? How can you be immune?
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I mean, I like this role, but I don’t find her enough by herself to keep my interest in a dull one. I fully expected “Meet Me in St. Louis” to kill me : P
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BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!! I love Meet Me in St. Louis!!!!!
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Aaaaaaaaaaaugh, make it stop! To be fair, the fact that it’s Christmassy already leaves me predisposed to hate it.
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The kiss is too much!!
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“How long is this movie?”
I think it is almost over.
“They’re never even going to get on a boat?”
As much as I like the clown song I too am a bit bummed about that.
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When did people stop liking clowns? I was watching Mera Naam Joker the other day and thinking about this. Half the people I know claim to be scared of them. Is it all because of IT?
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If you love clowns there is a great hotel in Tonopah you can stay at! It terrifies me every time I drive past. ANd the parking lot usually has cars in it!
https://www.theclownmotelusa.com/
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AH, so maybe the universal clown-hate is a British thing!
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Well it is billed as the scariest hotel – except that the clowns on the outside are all happy. So uh, it is a love hate thing. It is less than two hours from my house though, so I’ll never have reason to stay there. Also, there is supposed to be a REAL haunted inn you can stay at in the same town. Last year the actor directors who travel CA putting on children’s theater stayed there. They got Covid.
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Haunted by COVID-infected clowns! It gets scarier and scarier.
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Oh, that was so GOOD! Thank you thank you for watching it with me! Watch out, I’m gonna be tempted to make you watch all kinds of American Musical Classics now.
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Well, that was great good fun! I’d seen “Bandwagon” before and didn’t like it half so much. And I certainly didn’t expect Egyptian history knowledge to come in handy.
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Nor did I! And this is definitely a great watchalong movie, probably better than an objectively “good” film would have been.
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i like how it ended with them singing
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Thank you for the watch-along! We had fun.
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My first pre-70s American musical – quite an experience! Thanks everyone!
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