On Jan 23, 11:10=A0pm, Nil wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2012, Howard Brazee wrote in
> rec.arts.movies.past-films:
>
> > 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
> > selling was her desperation, and turned a nice song into something
> > more Hitchcockan.
>
> Right, I understand that. The plot point works well. What I meant was
> that the song seems to me to be an transparently intentional bid for a
> tie-in radio hit and Oscar nomination (was it?), and they hammered it
> ad nauseum throughout the film. I wouldn't necessarily have minded it,
> but I find the song itself to be cloying and annoying, and when Doris
> belts it out so hysterically in the embassy... well, it just gets my
> eyes rolling and my teeth grinding.
But they didn't hammer it ad nauseam throughout the film.
She sang it once near the beginning |