On the Town (1949)

Hokey Heroes

“I mean, I did like Singin’ in the Rain, and that was fun—same director, same genre, same five-year period. And for the record, I haven’t seen “Don’t Worry Darling”. And Frank Sinatra is cool, you know. It’s just, I don’t know. I’m not a big stickler for realism, but it’s just so goofy for sailors to be…. I don’t know. I mean, it was a different time—the Jazz Age, the 40s, sure. It’s just that for me, I feel like if you let sailors loose in New York for 24 hours to take the city by storm and get lucky, it wouldn’t be, I don’t know, cutesy, you know. There’s not needing excessive realism, and then there’s…. Yeah. But like I said, it was a different time. Fulton Sheen and CS Lewis and so on hated the Jazz Age, and they probably thought that Frank Sinatra ” read more

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" Notes: As a matter of fact, a few weeks before I watched this movie, I read a book about movies my wife bought for me and, in this book, they developed some interesting views about musicals. Indeed, according to the writer, back in those days, there was a really rigid production code in the USA and the musicals with their mix of reality and fantasy were a way to show things that were not really allowed. With this in mind, I might give musicals some extra credit in the future but, unfortunately"

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" Notes: Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of musicals but since this movie is a classic, I thought I might as well give it a try. As a matter of fact, at some point I read a book about movies my wife bought for me and, in this book, they developed some interesting views about musicals. Indeed, according to the writer, back in those days, there was a really rigid production code in the USA and the musicals with their mix of reality and fantasy was a way to show things that were not really allowed. "

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" Notes: Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of musicals but since this movie is a classic, I thought I might as well give it a try. As a matter of fact, at some point I read a book about movies my wife bought for me and, in this book, they developed some interesting views about musicals. Indeed, according to the writer, back in those days, there was a really rigid production code in the USA and the musicals with their mix of reality and fantasy was a way to show things that were not really allowed. "

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