Did they fix it?
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tpupkin — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 02:44 AM)
How was the second version of the play-within-the-movie any less pretentious than Cordova's version? At least his effort seemed to have a coherent story behind it. Hunter's just seemed like a grab bag of random, over-produced dance numbers.
If the theme of the show is that dark brooding drama is bad and goofy, barely connected musical numbers are true "entertainment," that sentiment doesn't resonate with me in the least.
I love Minelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, as well as Singin' in the Rain, which The Bandwagon seemed to be coattailling, but even in their "revue" numbers there seems to be some kind of progressive narrative push. The Bandwagon seemed utterly purposeless, except as a kind of dance porn. -
gorgsharpy — 6 days ago(March 28, 2026 03:15 AM)
The point is they actually sell their soul to Faust symbolically with the second show. For fame - and their personal romance is swallowed by the emsemble in the last scene so it leaves no room for the individual. It's kind of a colourful tragedy.