Session 019 - Nashville
Who saw it and what are your thoughts on it?
Monday, June 2, 2008
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2 comments:
Alright Chachi, so I know we pretty much covered this back on Saturday after we saw the film, but I didn't want to leave out a "Screening Room Session" post for it. So here are just a few bits of trivia about the film I found when I went back and read up on it a little bit more and my own thoughts following in parentheses...
1.) Each actor was required to write and perform their own songs for the movie. (This is probably why some of the songs felt a lot more amateurish than others to me).
2.) Robert Altman had Gwen Welles (Sueleen Gay) take singing lessons to sound better. The end result of those extended lessons is what you hear in the film. (I can only imagine the horrors that came before those lessons.)
3.) SPOILER: Faced with an impending rainstorm which threatened to ruin filming of Barbara Jean's assassination - with no recourse, as the production's budget had run dry - Robert Altman reportedly screamed at the sky, ordering the rain to stop. The rain did indeed stop, and filming of the scene was completed. (That's just awesome.)
4.) Keith Carradine wrote "I'm Easy", which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song - Motion Picture. Carradine also wrote "It Don't Worry Me", which is featured throughout the film, and is the climactic closing number. (To me those were the two most memorable songs in the film, so for Carradine to have written them himself is mighty impressive.)
As I said before, I thought it was a great film. Not necessarily my favorite Altman, but that ending really kicks it up there.
Oh, and the Wikiquote page for Nashville is really lacking. There's no mention of "He should have a glass of milk, it suits his personality" or any number of other lines we were quoting and I'm now having trouble remembering. If you remember them, throw them up on the boards. There's some great stuff in there.
Wikiquote did have the instant classic, "You get your haircut. You don't belong in Nashville" line that practically opened the movie though. Nice.
I'm having a hard time remembering them myself, but just about anything by the BBC reporter played by Geraldine Chaplin was great.
But perhaps my favorite was "Beautiful Black Butterfly!" That was classic.
You touched on just about everything I found out about it myself. How cool that Carradine won an Academy award. That song was the best of the bunch, but the finale was a great one too.
This is a film that has you completely rethink what the film is about in the last 20 min. Just when you think you may have figured out the point of it all, and rips the rug out from under you and you than cycle through all the moments that should have led you to predict that. Much like Sixth Sense, but certainly not that twisted and surprising, but a ending that dramatically changes the tone of the film, but in a great way. Definitely got me excited to check out more Altman. Great pick Mulligan. Perhaps among my favorites we've watched since starting these screening room sessions.
PS I would pay good money to hear Altman's thoughts on the Tricycle Rider played by Jeff Goldblum. What a completely kooky, though oddly fitting character to have in this film.
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