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Post by Vits on Sept 1, 2017 12:33:38 GMT
Topol's performance in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is great, but this 3-hour-long story could’ve easily been told in 100 minutes. It drags a lot, but it’s still consistently entertaining. It made sense to compose the traditional Jewish music, but did all the songs have to sound the same? 6/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog (in English, in Spanish or in Italian).
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Post by mattgarth on Sept 1, 2017 15:30:25 GMT
Did they really sound the same?
WONDER OF WONDERS like MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER?
SUNRISE, SUNSET like IF I WERE A RICH MAN?
OK -- I'll have to listen to them again, I guess.
8/10 for me.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 1, 2017 16:27:26 GMT
First movie version before it became a musical, independently financed and shot on a farm on Long Island, New York. I've never understood why they chosed Topol over Zero Mostel in the movie version...or if it was just unavailability. The only song that I do remember is "If I Was a Rich Man" "Om Jag var en Rik Man" in Swedish. I won't comment the movie since I haven't seen it.
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Post by snsurone on Sept 6, 2017 1:21:50 GMT
First movie version before it became a musical, independently financed and shot on a farm on Long Island, New York. I've never understood why they chosed Topol over Zero Mostel in the movie version...or if it was just unavailability. The only song that I do remember is "If I Was a Rich Man" "Om Jag var en Rik Man" in Swedish. I won't comment the movie since I haven't seen it. Like Ethel Merman, Zero Mostel was one of those "larger than life" stage performers who had some difficulty in adapting to the lower key acting of motion pictures. I recommend highly that you see the movie; it's a beautiful experience.
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Post by snsurone on Sept 6, 2017 1:29:05 GMT
One thread that was heavily discussed in the old format was on the issue of Chava's hair. In orthodox Judaism, after marriage, women's hair was cut, and they wore babushkas (and on Sabbath and holidays special wigs called "shetls"). Yet, when Chava married Fyedka, she kept her long red hair, which I interpreted as abandoning her faith. There were many messages on that thread.
I still miss the old IMDb format.
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Post by OldAussie on Sept 6, 2017 2:55:57 GMT
Don't they move to Poland in the end? In which case they and their children are doomed.
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Post by claudius on Sept 6, 2017 9:46:50 GMT
I read the script; the family goes to America. I'm more worried about Avigdor and Hadass in YENTL.
Interestingly, it was filming TEVYE in the US at the time of the Gathering Storm that kept several of its Jewish filmmakers from returning to Europe when all hell broke out.
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Post by OldAussie on Sept 6, 2017 9:53:50 GMT
I read the script; the family goes to America. I'm more worried about Avigdor and Hadass in YENTL. Interestingly, it was filming TEVYE in the US at the time of the Gathering Storm that kept several of its Jewish filmmakers from returning to Europe when all hell broke out. Good! It's years since I saw it and I thought they were forced to leave westward to Poland. Still seems unbelievable that less than 2 generations later people met such a fate.
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Post by snsurone on Sept 6, 2017 13:35:07 GMT
Don't they move to Poland in the end? In which case they and their children are doomed. Tevye, Golde, and their two youngest children emigrate to America, as does Lazar Wolf and maybe some more of their neighbors. It was Tzeitle and her family who went to Poland. However, since this story takes place ca. 1905, I like to think that they were able to escape before the Nazis took power.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 6, 2017 13:37:07 GMT
I'd agree that it could have been shorter, but aside from that, it's a great film, and one of my favorite musicals in general (via stage productions, too . . . I love the music).
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Post by SciFive on Sept 7, 2017 2:50:53 GMT
Don't they move to Poland in the end? In which case they and their children are doomed. They were moving to New York. The whole idea was that modern New York Jews (their descendants) were celebrating their ancestors in this play/move.
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Post by SciFive on Sept 7, 2017 2:51:43 GMT
Don't they move to Poland in the end? In which case they and their children are doomed. Tevye, Golde, and their two youngest children emigrate to America, as does Lazar Wolf and maybe some more of their neighbors. It was Tzeitle and her family who went to Poland.However, since this story takes place ca. 1905, I like to think that they were able to escape before the Nazis took power. Forgot about this - thanks.
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Post by Froggy on Sept 8, 2017 0:35:31 GMT
From the IMDb trivia: "Orson Welles, Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando were among the many actors who turned down the lead role of Tevye. Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye both wanted the role and were passed over. "
Anthony Quinn or Danny Kaye? That could work I suppose. Orson Welles? No, and why would anyone offer him the role? Marlon Brando? Frank Sinatra? I think someone must be pulling our (collective) leg.
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