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Speaking of Rachmaninoff!
Ok,...I feel guilty of enjoying a "chick flick"
"Somewhere in time" with Steve Reeves.
About a dude from the present who hypnotizes himself to go back in time to 1912 to meet his "True Love"
He is tripped up by having some modern coins in the antique suit he purchased for his time voyage.
One fun part of the flick is the Rachmaninoff rhapsody which is promenent throughout the entire movie and is played by our hero to his true love via a music box he has brought from the present.
He was tripped up by the coins, but NOT by....
The "Rhapsody on a theme from Paganini"!! Of course in the movie it sounds like a piece of music firmly from the 1800s, but in fact was written......heh heh heh
I suspect that the producers inserted this tune intentionally; I wonder what percentage of the viewers of the movie understood the significance!
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I think this fits into the view that anything "simplistic" is not highbrow enough. I used to have a roommate in college who facied himself as a music critic. His favorite saying was, "That is soo simple, anybody could play that." I always told him, "Who cares, it sounds good."
Complex pieces can be technically astounding and impressive, but simple emotional pieces can be just as rewarding, or more so.
Why is it that when the general public likes something, critics dismiss it?
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In reply to:
"Somewhere in time" with Steve Reeves.
LOL! I think you mean the late Christopher Reeve.
Not Steve Reeves.
Jack
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton
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That would have been a MUCH different movie!
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Yeah Jack, but I understand that Steve Reeves also greatly enjoyed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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ROTFLMAO! It sure WOULD have been a different movie.
By the way, I too, enjoy Somewhere in time. A good love story (which is the nice way of saying "chick flick")
Jack
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Thanks John. I was gonna say that the movie's musical theme was gorgeous (which it is) in the hopes you'd be able to tell me what it is. However, I was not aware that Steve Reeves appreciated it.
Jack
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"Or if you want something visual that's not too abismal, we can take in an old Steve Reeves movie." - Frank N. Furter "Sweet Tranvestite" (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
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Well, I suppose it depends on what parts of Barry's score attract the most. Some of it he composed with less direct reference to past masters.
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