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Caught the trailer at today's LOA viewing (aha!) and I'm more nervous. The trailer emphasized the drama, not the music. Not a good sign.
Yes, I saw that same trailer a few weeks ago on Entertainment Tonight and I hear what you're saying about the emphasis on the drama rather than the music. That's why I got excited when Richard Gere said it was a throwback to the Busby Berkeley Musicals. Let's face it, moviegoers today aren't into musicals so they're probably soft pedalling the music in the trailer.
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Chester chooses chestnuts, cheddar cheese with chewy chives . . .
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I've said it before on this site, as well as the many conversations I've had on the same subject over the years: However and whatever your first exposure or experience with any film or theatrical piece is your peak experience.
I grew up in a town that only offered touring shows, and while that would have been a great opportunity to see live theatre, my family simply could not afford the money for tickets. It was a very rare event indeed to go to a live show. Consequently, I grew up with the movies, and it was the movies that impressed me.
To this very day, SOUTH PACIFIC is one of, if not my all time, favorite musical films. I saw it in a new modern theater on a huge 70 foot wide screed, the stereo coming from everywhere. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. For me, there was nothing that could equal those fabulous Hollywood orchestras and stereophonic sound, the Todd-AO, The Super Panavision images and the hoopla of a roadshow movie.
So, of all the films that you list as "needing a remake," I couldn't disagree more. From CAMELOT to MY FAIR LADY, from SOUTH PACIFIC to HELLO DOLLY, I love them all.
Well, maybe except CAN CAN. God, what a dud that is.  Cheers to all of you!
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