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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - The Boy Friend (1971)
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $69.95
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin
Directed By: Ken Russell
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301968010
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301968018
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Studio: MGM (Warner)
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Summary: One of the BEST!
Comment: One must never compare the Stage to the Film when it comes to musicals. Sometimes they are better than the original. Sometimes worse. ALWAYS different! That's just the nature of the transition. This is one of the great film musicals of all time. It's just not Sandy Wilson's "The Boy Friend". I love the stage play as well. This is a musical film about a production of the stage musical with all kinds of backstage intrigue as well as the terrific device of seeing a number "as is", as the director would have done if only he had money, and as the film maker in attendance would make a movie of the same number. Divine!
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Summary: WAY Under-rated!!..Among the BEST Musicals Ever!
Comment: I admit I saw this the first time last week. After a slow start (about the first 20 minutes), we are led into a near-visionary world with some of the most unique musical numbers ever..Set in the 1920's, with 1920's costumes, sings, etc., you may be amazed at some of these sets,routines, and costumes!..There are probably over a dozen, including leprechauns in a world of mushrooms, swimmers identically attired in the ocean, geezers in wheelchairs being pushed in near- kaleidescopic circles by nurses, Tommy Tune's stick man tapping and humor, aeroplane dancing in the snow, and piroette and pirotte (spelling?) amidst neo-Busby Berkeley type dances..Not to mention the pure innocent youthful charm of Twiggy!! True, less close-ups of the Cecil B .Demille takeoff would make it even better, though the final ending is again pure charm and nostalgia!
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Summary: The Greatest
Comment: In our house, this is one of the all-time favourite movies. *Everyone* is perfectly cast, the style constantly changes (on-stage, off-stage, fantasy projections of how numbers could be staged...) and it manages to be convincing as a small-time theatre production while at the same time being colourful and imaginative. Covent Garden could learn a thing or two about staging from this movie. This is Ken Russell's greatest movie. We want a DVD!
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Summary: TAGLINE SAYS IT ALL
Comment: "A Glittering Super Colossal Heart Warming Toe-Tapping Continuously Delightful Musical Extravaganza"
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Summary: Fluffy, silly, ridiculous, and I love it!
Comment: I have one copy of this tape and I guess I'd better get a backup -- doesn't look like it's coming out on DVD anytime soon and I'm gonna wear the poor thing out! It is a perfect portrayal of a bunch of wannabes who definitely will never-be... OK, except Tommy Tune who's probably just too good to perform as barely adequate. Christopher Gable likewise performs like a pro. (Is that perhaps a failing in this particular flick, which is all about a bunch of folks who aren't really that great?) Twiggy is perfectly cast. She's delightfully amateur as a singer; she's so likable, such an underdog, so frightened, how can she not be a sympathetic character? Even the awkward edits, which would be unforgivable in a more serious film, are perfect amateur glitches here (watch the jumpy splices in the "Perfect Young Ladies" number--really horrible, but just exactly the right thing to leave in on this movie). My favorite over-the-top silly bit is Polly's extended Grecian nymph fantasy. Tommy Tune leading the chorus of nymphs off to save the day is hysterical. And the whole thing takes place in the space of time it takes for Polly to make quick eye contact with Tony offstage... and ends when he winks back at her. Two seconds of real time. What girl hasn't had an extended fantasy compressed into a few seconds? It's all so cheerfully, delightfully cheesy. Not a guy's film. It's a chick flick. Perfect for the end of a really yucky day: curl up with your Teddy bear and something chocolate, plug this movie in, and enjoy the ride. It asks nothing of you, just happily delivers a series of giggles and a Yay! at the end.
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