Just thought people should know, the title "The Saddest Music in the World" is a prime example of iambic tetrameter (four feet, each going from an unstressed syllable to stressed) in the world of metric poetry.
Oh, and it's a great film.
Great topic title. I had to reply.
Guy Maddin just gets better and better. In "Music", he's outdone himself. The fusion of content and style is so brilliant, clever, and emotional.
Style is the real star in this film. The entire film is shot using a blue-haze filter, with a faux stereopticon effect that narrows the viewing screen to that resembling what one would see from the early days of film, and with the faintest, subtlest and tiniest of lags in action-speech synchronization that makes this uncannily resonate as a work fusing a 30s setting, a pre-20s style. This is a truly brilliant--I would even call it genius--approach to filmmaking that noone else in the known world even remotely approaches. Not everyone's cup of tea, pretentious to some, but remarkable and worthy of our appreciation if we realize the work and imagination he must have applied on this. Maddin is one of the contemporary masters of cinema and "Music" is the proof. I wish it got wider release.
that was amazing. i would say more but i fear anything would sound hopelessly amateur next to your comments.
hasn't anyone ever told you that smoking was bad for you?
no..no one..THANK YOU.
I just saw this; loved it; stood up to clap at the end, and not very many joined in. ?!? I guess you sort of have to be watching for stuff (or at least watching) to really appreciate the film.
"Spock! Form an away team! You, me, Bones, Scotty and umm... Ensign Smith!"
Watched it again, this time on TV, and it didn't feel quite so good second time around.
I think most of that is due to Maddin's intention to have old movie house efects, shown in a movie house.
With movies more and more being shown on TV, DVD & computer, he won't get that effect ever again, except for the unlikely showing at a theatre. Too bad for fans!
"Spock! Form an away team! You, me, Bones, Scotty and umm... Ensign Smith!"
Only when sung thru a nose flute in church.
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
Other awesome movies with titles in iambic tetrameter:
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
and of course...
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein