The Music Man (1962 film) = Finished
Added 2018-10-24 04:35:55 +0000 UTCThe Music Man takes us into a bizarro, absurdist world full of rubes for our con man protagonist to take advantage of, and eventually transforms Harold Hill into one of them.
It's...sweet. Kinda?
Simple, but sweet.
Even though The Music Man was made in the 60s, this is what I'll have in my mind when people talk about the "Golden Age" of Hollywood. Something that feels utterly of another time, yet outside of it. Pastel costumes bright enough to blind and people clearly in their 20s and 30s wearing hiked shorts and elaborate bows to try to pass off as middle school children, before launching into a choreographed symphony of movement where every inch of their grown-ass height is displayed.
The fact that Shipoopi is a made-up nonsense word makes me furious, because now I can't find a way to shoehorn it into daily conversation.
Shipoopi.
It's incredible how a musical that makes such a point of defying rhyme in one song after another, nevertheless found so many ways to stick lyrics into my head.
Damn Shipoopi.
