My Eyes Adored You - Jersey Boys (2014) Discussion

[–] 10 years ago

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I did not find it creepy at all.

I also enjoyed the song because I think that it's the one big Valli hit that I had been unaware of.

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[–] gcarras 10 years ago

Song wasn't even written till 1974, though!! I loved it, even though in this different context, the song itself would be different..:)

MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

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[–] joekiddlouischama 10 years ago

Thanks.

... sounds like it could have been a mid-sixties song, though.

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[–] chasm301 10 years ago

I found it really distracting that they didn't even bother to rerecord it. They just reused the same track from the OBCR. Sure, John Lloyd Young sings in both, but it took me out both times it played. I guess I'm a bit too familiar with the OBCR.

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[–] joekiddlouischama 10 years ago

I don't even know what OBCR stands for. "On Broadway Company Recording"?

Like I said, I don't know.

... and thus for someone like myself, it just sounded great.

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[–] chasm301 10 years ago

Sorry. Original Broadway Cast Recording. So close enough! :D

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[–] joekiddlouischama 10 years ago

Thanks.

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[–] joekiddlouischama 10 years ago

After viewing the film for a second time, yeah, the musical arrangement for "My Eyes Adore You" is definitely from the mid-seventies, although Valli's singing could pass for the mid-sixties.

But although the film uses the song 'out of place,' I think that it works well as the theme for Francine, even if the switch from romantic love to platonic love can be a little uneasy if one stops to think about it. Still, it can work in the sense of a father loving his daughter yet not being around enough to hug and hold her. As a result, the teenage daughter prematurely turns to guys for physical contact, with trouble ensuing.

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[–] gcarras 10 years ago

BOTH musical arrangement AND the song ITSELF were from mid-seventies..:) (Valli's famous falsetto had been basically retired by then...)

MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

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[–] joekiddlouischama 10 years ago

Yeah, what I meant (and I could have been clearer) was that the style of singing could pass for the mid-sixties (even if Valli was defined by his falsetto back then), but the musical arrangement existed in a mid-seventies idiom.

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[–] jlindholm2000 9 years ago

I did not find it creepy. It fit the mood of the scene. You on the other handy are creepy.

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[–] Jo_Mama 10 years ago

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[–] morgana-31 10 years ago

Not creeped out - but it did cause me to raise my eyebrows.
After all, what father would lay a hand on his daughter, unless he was a pervert?

Love is never having to say you're sober.

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[–] Kariann1964 10 years ago

You can have a certain perspective with this song. He could be singing to a puppy and mean I didn't lay my hands on you when you pooped in the kitchen.

What was missing was "Grease" but maybe it didn't get clearance?

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[–] Whoopee_Cushion 10 years ago

Damn puppy.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 10 years ago

"After all, what father would lay a hand on his daughter, unless he was a pervert?"

People like you and your sick, schizophrenic, paranoid perspective on fatherly love is exactly what's wrong with the world today.

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[–] morgana-31 10 years ago

"After all, what father would lay a hand on his daughter, unless he was a pervert?"

People like you and your sick, schizophrenic, paranoid perspective on fatherly love is exactly what's wrong with the world today.

I meant laying a hand on her in a sexual way, not laying a hand in a friendly fatherly way, Luke.
And the song lyrics do suggest *sexual* to someone who managed to pass reading comprehension in primary school.

I suppose I could say there is something wrong with you for taking my comment the way in which you did, but then we'd be going around in circles forever.
Cheers, Luke.

Love is never having to say you're sober.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 9 years ago

I'm fighting for men to be accepted and respected as great fathers to their sons and daughters again. Too many people are still too quick to judge men getting affectionate with their children for men to feel comfortable as nurturers. So, don't act like an a$$hole.

As far as I'm concerned, his lullaby to her was perfect. Fathers are supposed to show daughters how they should be loved by men. All it was was a man serenading her, using a love song. That's all.

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 10 years ago

You people are really sick for automatic associating a father's love and devotion to his daughter with something sexual perverse. And to think feminists want fathers to get more involved with their children. With sick, paranoid, schizophrenic perspectives like yours, why should any father bother to get close to their children? Anything he fcking says or does is considered sick, twisted or evil.

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[–] Zz9pza 10 years ago

I have to agree with Luke, if that creeped you out, the problem lies with you, not the scene. It was about singing a lullaby to his daughter, not about the literal interpretation of the lyrics. Have you actually paid attention to the lyrics in some lullabies, wow?

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[–] LukeLovesFilm28 10 years ago

THANK YOU, Zz9pza. I'm glad someone understood where I was coming from. I mean, you can't get too literal with the lyrics of songs or lullabies, games, movies, etc.

I admit. I got a little too harsh in my replies. But, damn. I'm a supporter of MGTOW and MRA and men - especially fathers have been and continue to be treated like absolute sh!t by the system. Mothers and ex-wives use these men like cash cows. And they don't give the fathers any time with their kids. They sanction them for anything and everything. No fault divorces have ruined responsibility in most adult relationships. I don't think people would like all rules abolished for the sake of happiness and freedom. It create anarchy. No rules = No boundaries. Women can screw up a marriage too. And the fact that society - ruled by feminism, has branded every man a pedophile for even kissing his child on the forehead is DISGUSTING to me. And trust me when I say feminists (women) have controlled society for a long time. They just don't want the men to know it. They love the guilt card too much.

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[–] MsSpiderGrrl 9 years ago

You're a sad, sad man, Luke. Get some therapy for whatever made you so woman-hating and paranoid about being called a pedophile as to be completely irrational regarding both topics.

As for the ACTUAL TOPIC, I didn't see it as him singing the song to/about her, but *for* her, as in singing her one of his songs, at her request, and a slow pretty one as it was bedtime. (Even though the song was wildly anachronistic.)

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[–] jlindholm2000 9 years ago

I'm a feminist. You are an idiot. I don't care to look up those acronyms you blithely throw around. I didn't use my ex husband as a cashcow. He chose to support me so I could take care of his home and we could raise our children. He never complained about supporting us. You sir are a misogynist. If you have the cash🐄 for a dictionary, you'll know what that means.

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[–] cgc668 10 years ago

I mean - I think he was only just randomly singing one of his songs to her at bedtime - and when she died, they played the song again as it was a memory for him and it had very poignant words.
Aside from that - there are plenty of love songs out there that people have used, for example, as songs to 'dance with their fathers or mothers' at weddings. Most people look for the bigger message and not take every word so literally.

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[–] jefgg 9 years ago

I assume they tried to make songs fit the plot of the Broadway play then the movie. If you listen to the lyrics of that song it doesn't fit. It certainly is a beautiful song. I wish they could have made it fit better in the movie.

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[–] kelleyscorpio 9 years ago

Me, I was definitely creeped out by it.

And Luke, the sad truth is that there are lots of fathers who do lay their hands on their kids in inappropriate ways. Probably a lot more than anyone cares to think about.

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[–] jaystarstar 9 years ago

Valli didn't write the lyrics anyway.

It would be kinda creepy for a father to sing it, DIRECTLY, to his daughter. Or really for any adult man to a school-age girl.

It's obviously intended for two old childhood friends ("You were fifth grade, I was sixth") who become lovers as teens/adults.

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[–] Madman-10 9 years ago

Why's it creepy?

She's his daughter and he adores her. That's how it's supposed to be.

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