On Jan 23, 10:14=A0pm, Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:55:08 -0500, Nil
> wrote:
> >I like "The Man Who Knew Too Much" very much, including Doris's
> >performance... except for that part. Seems to me they were trying to
> >sell the song as a tie-in by repeating it over and over so loudly. I
> >have to turn my brain down a few notches to get through that. But
> >otherwise. I think Doris is good - the scene where she learns the kid
> >has been kidnapped and panics until her husband gives her tranquilizers
> >is very effective. I feel a real sense of despair from her, and him
> >too. But he knows that his wife is too fragile to deal with it, so he
> >tries to act strong for her.
>
> I don't think they were selling the song in that part (although it
> wasn't bad at the start - I liked it there). =A0 =A0What they were sellin=
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> was her desperation, and turned a nice song into something more
> Hitchcockan.
They were selling her calling to her son, a
deliberate plan to reach him, knowing he was
somewhere in the building, and doing it in such
a way that his captors wouldn't know it before
the son knew it. |