The "landslide" scene.
Almost everyone in my theater laughed at the "landslide" scene.
Being an immigrant I might not understand the context.
Could someone please explain?
Thank you
they laughed? i can't imagine why. i didn't find it funny at all.
maybe there was some kind of inside joke that went over my head too - & i'm not an immigrant.
i thought it was meant sincerely & i thought it was a great little performance. if it was meant to be funny the joke's lost on me.
i loved this movie.
thinking about it a little bit, i guess some people may have laughed at it because they saw it as skewering sincere-seventies folkie sentimentality. maybe the film-makers meant it that way, but that's certainly not how it played to me.
nobody in the theatre laughed here. that said, there were only 5 or 6 people there (i saw it at a matinee showing yesterday, & those are always sparsely attended here).
I watched at a 90% packed Thursday night showing in Burbank, CA.
Most of them probably Horror movie fans.
I wish I would understand why they laughed.
i think i might have an answer!
that actress (named brittany snow, apparently) was in the pitch perfect movies. i don't know those movies, have never seen them, but i know enough about them to be aware that they're full of singing.
so i'm guessing that scene was meant as a little self-aware joke at her role in that franchise.
it still didn't play as 'funny' to me. if that was her singing, she did a great job imo. she has a very nice voice.
Actually they started laughing when the dude started playing the guitar, before she started singing, so I doubt it was the reason.
Dang, that one's gonna haunt me...
fwiw, i asked two people i follow on twitter who are very much into horror movies if they found the performance funny and if anyone in their theatre laughed. here are their responses:
"No I thought it was a nice scene actually she has a good singing voice and I’m a Stevie Nicks fan anyway. I didn’t get the impression it was meant to be humorous."
"well that's weird. no one laughed. i thought it was really nice and the singing was beautiful."
not to sound too ocd-ish, but i'm now kinda obsessed with trying to work out why anyone would find that scene funny!