Post by Nalkarj on Dec 1, 2021 19:27:02 GMT
I saw this on Reddit, posted in tribute after Sondheim’s passing, and thought posters here might be interested. Arranged alphabetically:
I love the diversity in choices; I can’t imagine another list with movies so different as Torchy Blane in Chinatown, The Barbarian Invasions, and Fires on the Plain on it. Many of these seem particularly Sondheimian: Torchy Blane and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes show his love of mysteries, he said Bernard Herrmann’s Hangover Square score was a major influence on Sweeney Todd, he thought about adapting Un carnet du bal and La belle équipe into musicals and did adapt Smiles of a Summer Night as A Little Night Music. But many of these choices—Spinal Tap, notably—did surprise me.
I love the diversity in choices; I can’t imagine another list with movies so different as Torchy Blane in Chinatown, The Barbarian Invasions, and Fires on the Plain on it. Many of these seem particularly Sondheimian: Torchy Blane and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes show his love of mysteries, he said Bernard Herrmann’s Hangover Square score was a major influence on Sweeney Todd, he thought about adapting Un carnet du bal and La belle équipe into musicals and did adapt Smiles of a Summer Night as A Little Night Music. But many of these choices—Spinal Tap, notably—did surprise me.
