[Dixielandjazz] Chicago

[Bob Romans]

ANTON!! Did you say "dull"? I wonder if we saw the same movie!! I thought it
COOKED from the first to the last note! What, in your estimation, is NOT
dull? "Cool Jazz", "Hip Hop", "Bop", "Swing"...? Gawd, those cats were HOT!!
And the girls weren't bad either! :~) I've seen it twice, and plan on seeing
it again as soon as I can catch my breath!
That's the nice thing about this list...different opinions!!
Bob Romans
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-----Original Message-----
From: Anton Crouch <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Chicago


Hello all

I both agree and disagree with me old mate Bill Haesler about Chicago. I
haven't seen the stage production but I have seen the movie ("Ahaa" says me
young mate Nancy).

That the music is dull, I accept. Actually, it's worse than dull - it's
contrivance. A triumph of presentation over content, a demonstration that
it is possible to fool some of the people all of the time.

But the movie is superb because it is much more than filmed action and
recorded sound. On stage, the director choreographs and moves within the
frame in real time; on film the director also moves the frame and moves
from frame to frame in disjunct time. The picture itself moves.

Think of music in ballet. There are plenty of musical masterpieces in this
art form (eg Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev) but there's an awful lot of musical
dross which accompanies fine ballet (eg Chopin, Hérold and Minkus).

Bill, please see the movie. There is more art in one stamp of Renée
Zellweger's foot than in the entire score. Go and SEE.

All the best
Anton


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